Entrepreneurship 101
Workshop
Effective agile work methods,
User centered design,
Product management,
Marketing strategy,
Software development planning,
Win-win situation,
Project management,

book workshop now 2,500 - 4,000 USD, for a group of up to 40 participants, for 10-15 meetings

We will collaborate with Accelerators, Workspaces, High-Schools, or even local community centers

הורד ברושור בעברית

Ideation-> Design-> Prototype

The three chapters encapsulate core stages in product life-cycle. From a napkin to a business plan; Designing the user scenario and product wireframe; Prototyping and user testing.

Project-Based Learning

Students practice the skills themselves: ideation, time management and project management, software planning, user testing. By the end of the workshop, students create a startup exhibit and practice elevator pitches.

Values and Community

One cannot succeed alone. Students learn ways to interact with the local community and find the right complementary team members. We do our best to discover a win-win products with an emotional touch.




who is this for?

  • You want to make a difference
  • 16 to 40 years old
  • Interested about technology and how it works
  • You have many skills, but cannot be defined by only one of them
  • You can be a programmer, maker, business person, designer or even a non-tech person

a successful Pilot

The highly successful course pilot run at the Q5 hub in Jerusalem during September-December 2015, in cooperation between Intel, Q5, Jerusalem municipality and Made-in-JLM, the local tech community. Over 50% of its participants are highly active, 2 of them now independents with their startups, 1 has crowd-funded twice!

Visit the pilot page and watch live talks

a little bird whispered

"You are exactly the type of people we want to grow up in this town!
Ofer Berkowitz, Deputy Mayor Jerusalem municipality
"Combine empathy, precise management and an innovative idea – and you got a great recipe for success!
Idan Zu-Aretz, intel Jerusalem Production General Manager
"one of the best courses we had
Daniel Bareket, Q5 Startup Hub Manager, Jerusalem
"Shachar is a professional that keeps himself updated. He doesn't hesitate to share from his experience and knowledge. He gives great importance to people around him and aspires them to achieve.
Ofir Peled, CEO EscapeBUS, participant

Program

Chapter 1: Ideation

From Napkin to a Business

How do you know when you have a good idea? How do you build a business plan? What is a win-win situation? Explore basic elements of a great idea and methods to find one.


Funding and Founding

Explore potential funding sources: from investors to crowd-funding or chief scientist. What do you need for each?


Leading a Development Team

How do you build and lead a development team? How do you find the team members that are good for you? What is an “A Team”? How do you run several projects in parallel?

Chapter 2: Design

From Concept to Design

Write a design document that developers can work with, and product managers can use for marketing. How to create a wireframe and why do this before the first line of code?


Product Management

Where product management meets user experience, marketing, business development and software development. How do you prioritize your features? How do you maintain a sustainable product?


Performing an Effective User Testing

Best practices of performing low cost and effective user testing sessions for startups. How to plan, when to test, how to ask questions without revealing the product features.

Chapter 3: Prototyping

Intro to Coding

The steps and preparations entrepreneurs can make before talking to developers. What are flow charts and how do developers think? Experience coding first handed.


Makers Culture

Who are the makers, what is the Makers movement, and what are the tools they offer? This talk will completely change the way you look at physical devices around you.


Planning a Software Project

How to effectively plan a software project, and estimate its development effort. Intro to most important concerns, i.e.: server side, client side, databases.

Optional: Hands-on Workshop

At the end of each chapter we add 1-2 hands-on meetings to practice the lessons learned on ideas participants bring in. This is an opportunity to direct the entrepreneurs to a specific area, a specific technology or subject matter, such as: social innovation, ed-tech, virtual and augmented reality, toys, etc.

startups

Selection of innovations from our graduates

Joey by Koala Gear

1,345 backers pledged $233,656 on Kickstarter

collected $305,919 on Indigogo

Kickstarter INDIGOGO

EscapeBus by A-Maze

The first escape room inside a bus!

Site book escape room

Plugiz by Shragai-Kreisberg

Toy teaching code

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People

course lead

Shachar Oz

Course leader, FLUX: Learning Experiences

Liron Levi

Product Manager. FLUX: Learning Experiences

students

Ofer Rashti

Nov 15'

Shawn Eni

Nov 15'

Vadim Epstein

Nov 15'

Nina Shpigel

Nov 15'

Josef van Wijk

Nov 15'

Elad Edri

Nov 15'

Ofir Peled

Nov 15'

Danit Houli

Nov 15'

Max Voloshin

Nov 15'

Coby Levy

Nov 15'

Chen Bareket

Nov 15'

Yativ Tal

Nov 15'

Hamodi 'Jimmy' Massalha

Nov 15'

Yonatan Aldouby

Nov 15'

Gadi Keren

Nov 15'

Adiva Beigel

Nov 15'

Barak Landau

Nov 15'

Kobi Alkotser

Nov 15'

Amos Sidelnik

Nov 15'

Avishay Auday

Nov 15'

Erez Assor

Nov 15'

Roee Zamir

Nov 15'

Eliyahu Kahanovsky

Nov 15'

Moshe

Nov 15'