I-Corps@CCTSI

• Gain customer insights to translate your innovations into viable commercial products.
  
• Identify your best product-to-market fit.
  
• Be more successful in getting small-business and entrepreneur startup funding.

• Teams of faculty, staff or students with a biomedical discovery or health innovation idea. A team can be just two people. ​

• “The course got us in the door to talk to people we may not have otherwise approached. “
  
• “The biggest gains were the contacts we made in the course. All the interviews connected us to excellent people in both the medical device industry as well as clinicians who can help us to focus research.”
  
• “Most of the learning occurred through actively brainstorming with your team while experts pushed us out of our comfort zones asking difficult questions. “  
  
• “Helped me think outside of the box to solve problems and see things from the customer standpoint. “ 
  
• “Customer discovery was very helpful, we really learned out target customer segment.” ​
  
  

To learn more about I-Corps@CCTSI, read this LinkedIn blog post by Meredith Banasiak, recent program participant.

Learn How to Translate Your Innovative Ideas into Practice with I-Corps@CCTSI

Do you want to learn how to accelerate the translation of your biomedical discoveries and health innovation into viable commercial products? Are you part of a team that wants to move your innovative idea off campus and into the real world?

If so, then come to the I-Corps@CCTSI’s Open House:

Date and location: TBD

I-Corps@CCTSI can help you be more successful in getting small-business and entrepreneur startup funding.  We are working in partnership with CU Innovations (formerly the Technology Transfer Office) and the Children’s Hospital Colorado Center for Innovation.  

Translate your innovative ideas in to practice with I-Corps@CCTSI!

Week 1: In-class training (Approx. 8:30 - 3:00) – Teams will develop a product-market-fit hypothesis, learn about value proposition and customer discovery. Teams will also begin customer interviews. Teams will be expected to conduct 25-30 customer interviews over the course of the training. The half-day training will provide strategies for methods and questions and help teams further develop their customer discovery action plan.

Week 2/3: Customer interviews and office hour consultations.

Final Week: In-class training (Approx. 8:30 am - 2:00 pm) – Teams will report product-market-fit learning and learn “where to go from here?” Including a Q&A panel session with CU resources representatives, entrepreneurs and former I-Corps participants.