Silicon Valley entrepeneur to lead weekend workshop
A Silicon Valley entrepreneur will lead a two-day workshop this weekend designed to give college students an immersive study of start-up techniques.
Henrik Scheel, founder of Startup Experience Inc., will lead 20 pre-selected students from Colby, Bates and Bowdoin colleges. The students will get a bit of the flavor of working in Maine, with the workshop being held at Venture Hall in Portland on Feb. 4-5.
The idea was developed by Drew Sigfridson, managing partner of CBRE | The Boulos Co., and Sean Marsh, a Bowdoin graduate and Boston venture capitalist. They approached Scheel, who has coached students in more than 20 countries.
Students will learn how to identify a problem, develop a solution and take an idea and turn it into a business. Workshop modules will include team creation, problem definition, customer segmentation, ideation, business model generation, customer validation, prototyping and pitching.
Participants reflect the diversity of the student population at all three schools. They come from all over the United States and several countries, major in everything from computer science to anthropology and art history. Many have no prior entrepreneurship experience.
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