Canary in a Gold Mine: De-risk Your Product with Quick & Dirty Experiments
by Jamie Ryan | at Minnebar 20
Potential investors assess risk from the moment they open your pitch deck. This interactive session will give founders a framework for assessing and addressing some of their biggest unknowns - before they face a diligence panel. Sound expensive? It doesn't have to be! Learn how to zero in on the most impactful bang for your limited-resource bucks.
Audience takeaways: - Overview of Design Thinking and founder self-assessment - Brief intro to risk management tools and how to use them - Examples of how quick and dirty experiments can be used to de-risk complex technology
Format: - 15-20 minutes interactive presentation - 20-25 minutes speed brainstorming (1:1 volunteer founder/speaker, 5 min each, open with identified risk and close with testing ideas)
Jamie Ryan
Jamie Ryan spent nearly 15 years in Silicon Valley as an in vitro diagnostics innovator and technology scout, addressing the world’s most pressing problems. From creating tests for diseases such as swine flu and COVID-19 pandemics to drug-resistant “superbugs,” she learned that the path from prototype to market is full of surprises. Evaluating 100+ MedTech startups as a subject matter expert in strategic business development, mentoring, and pitch judging showed her that many of these “surprises” can be anticipated - and addressed - if you know where to look.
She started JL Ryan Consulting LLC to improve medical device startup success rates by identifying and addressing risks early, before costly pivots are needed. She shares her feasibility-to-exit insights with early-stage entrepreneurs, empowering them to see the risks before investors do. Audience members walk away ready to assess their product investment readiness, plan the most efficient next steps, and nail investor meetings.
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