Franke Venture Studio

This session will focus on building customer personas. We'll practice structured ways to use AI to explore problem spaces, surface patterns, and challenge assumptions. You'll learn how to move from vague ideas to clearer opportunity areas without outsourcing thinking.

Step Up to the Mic Nights are informal, low-pressure opportunities to share ideas, test thinking, and get real feedback. Students can pitch a problem, an idea, or a question—and learn by listening to others do the same.

Learn how effective teams work in uncertain environments. Students explore communication, feedback, and collaboration skills essential for startup and non-startup contexts alike.

Let's talk about market and focus on how solutions reach real users. We'll examine early traction strategies and how startups gain initial momentum without large budgets.

Let's talk about market and focus on how solutions reach real users. We'll examine early traction strategies and how startups gain initial momentum without large budgets.

Discovering Problems: Explore how human judgment and AI work best together during early ideation. We'll learn where human intuition matters most and how AI can accelerate, not replace, creative thinking.

Discovering Problems: Explore how human judgment and AI work best together during early ideation. We'll learn where human intuition matters most and how AI can accelerate, not replace, creative thinking.

Let's talk about the offer.  Learn how to validate ideas through simple, low-cost experiments. You'll explore different MVP approaches and decide what to test first—and why.

Let's talk about the offer.  Learn how to validate ideas through simple, low-cost experiments. You'll explore different MVP approaches and decide what to test first—and why.

Explore how entrepreneurs see and approach the world differently. Students learn core habits of curiosity, resilience, and action that apply across careers.