Innovation Platform

High ease of use, great for customer development and validation in business model development

Kommentare: The What A Venture innovation platform provides structure to our diverse project teams and helps us provide more efficient and effective coaching.

Vorteile:

We use the software in our university accelerator programs with focus on enabling our student companies to reach product-market fit, traction and scaling. The What a Venture platform provides structure to the teams and the guided/ step-wise customer exploration and validation approach with lots of examples and explanations are extremely helpful. Thanks to the platform we can focus our coaching more on the essence of the business and have to explain less tools and procedures. Same holds true for the market analysis, customer analysis and finance modules. This saves time, enables us to support more projects and helps us to stay in the loop at all times. The platform keeps us informed about who is currently working on what and so we know upfront what we can expect and what we have to prepare for the next coaching session. The option to invite external mentors is also highly valuable.

Nachteile:

Very minor and not a dislike but more like a suggestion: It would be awesome to be able to choose between the more traditional Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas (maybe as an option). Lean Canvas would have an even better fit following the problem-solution fit phase.

The must-have tool for all entrepreneurs

Kommentare: The overall performance of WhatAVenture Platform is amazing: a very user friendly tool that is easy to learn and understand. I love the simplicity of the platform. The process of developing business idea is well-structured and clear. Platform encourages teams to follow well-designed steps, keeps them focused on every section and organized. Users thirsty for more knowledge will be happy to read additional information provided on the sidebars of every section. WhatAVenture team proves to know entrepreneurial needs very well: Innovation Platform offers entrepreneurs numerous superb features, like collaboration groups and validation board. Nothing can stimulate ideas flow more than opportunity to work on the project as a team, whereas validation board is a crucial step for all businesses to test their current hypothesis. Along their way users are supported by fantastic customer service: friendly, knowledgeable and willing to assist entrepreneurs on every stage of the process. As a mentor I can easily search through the projects, track my teams' progress and leave my comments. Innovation Platform structures my collaboration with the teams: it stimulates our discussions but also brings us back on track whenever we move too far from the main problem. Innovation Platform is a great tool both for seed phase startups and for established businesses. It allows my teams and me to iteratively develop their business ideas. Marvelous features, user friendly dashboard design and the amazing support team turns every visit on the Innovation Platform into nice and valuable experience. The Innovation Platform is a tool I highly recommend all entrepreneurs ready to challenge their current assumptions.

Logistics assignment on agro-processors.

Kommentare: Helps with the setup of assignments and clearly identifying the role of my organization on our customer base.

Vorteile:

Different sections allocated to clearly help with understanding how to draw up business idea and know the role of customers.

Nachteile:

It has proven difficult to add team members to the group or app.

Really useful for program coordinators!

Vorteile:

I love everything about this product: it is easy to use, it applies a sound methodology that drives startups to the end of the process in an easy way, it is full of documentation that by itself it's worth as a knowledge base! As a program coordinator it is great to be able to see at a glance, from one dashboard, where every startup is in the process, whether they are progressing regularly or get stuck somewhere, and so on. Also, great to keep the mentors involved.

Nachteile:

All is great here. Just, as a program coordinator I would like sometimes to be able to configure the system to skip 1 or 2 steps, especially for shorter programs or 1-day workshops when I use this as a support software.

Loith

Kommentare: Actually I work for me and with other business like handcraft manufacturing and a wedding traitor service. What I have realised is that. It is better when you have a place where you can organise you thought. We can have a lot of inspiration.

Vorteile:

The features at first you will think that the software is complicated by after time you get used to. Then you understand the precious tool you have in your hand when you go through and start make your idea unto a opportunity.. May God bless you people

Nachteile:

The only thing that bored me is the price of this software it a bit much. Just let me know when you will make a discount on it