Design Thinking: Startup Saturday Entrepreneurship Class

The Development Corporation of Columbia Heights, in partnership with Drs. Legand Burge and Grant Warner of Howard University, will actively engage and challenge course attendees in the immersive Lean Startup entrepreneurship curriculum that is evidence-based and fast-paced.

In this Startup Saturday Entrepreneurship class...

Design Thinking concepts attempts to inspire the essential element of creativity, the ability to take an abstract idea and create something with it. It is based upon the fundamental belief that an unexecuted idea, one that is never realized, is a worthless proposition and that doing is equally as valuable as thinking. During the entrepreneurship training, this will be done through a series of role-playing exercises where teams exercise different characters developed through joint brainstorming sessions. These role-playing games allow for a rapid ideation (idea generation) with the ability to visualize and adapt the results in near real-time.

No reading textbooks, case studies or developing papers! Participants…