Resources

Videos for H4R Bootcamp
Please also view the following:
- Udacity EP245, Lesson 3, First 11 Videos
- Lean Launchpad Customer Discovery Videos – how to conduct effective interviews:
- Udacity EP245, Lesson 4, ALL (20 videos)
- Udacity EP245, Lesson 5, ALL (33 videos)
- Udacity EP245, Lesson 6, Videos 2 – 31
- Lean Launchpad Customer Discovery Videos – avoiding pitfalls:
- Udacity EP245, Lesson 7:
- Introduction
- Distribution Channels Overview
- Your Product
- Web Distribution
- Physical Distribution
- Distribution Complexity
- Distribution Complexity Solution
- Product Channel Fit
- Product Channel Fit (part 2)
- Direct Channel Fit
- Indirect Channel Economics
- OEM Channel Economics
- Channel Profit Fit
- Channel Profit Fit Solution
- JerseySquare Channels
- Udacity EP245, Lesson 8, ALL (24 videos, skip #15 – duplicate)
- Lean Launchpad Customer Discovery Videos – key learning:
Hawai‘i Highlights

Silicon Valley entrepreneur mentors UH COVID-19 economic recovery program
The University of Hawaiʻi invites motivated Hawaiʻi entrepreneurs…

User Research: It’s easier to design for someone you love
Last Tuesday, a couple members of the Purple Maiʻa team and I attended a Zoom conversation with Auntie Puanani…

MVP vs. MLP Mentality
Last week’s Manaful Insight was about how using love more in your user research process might improve the insights you gain…

How to Get Startup Paradise to the Next Level
Hawaiʻi’s startup community creates and nurtures plenty of early stage innovative…

Virtual venture competition awards UH startups
The UH Venture Competition, hosted by the Shidler College of Business Pacific…

Plant ʻulu,
save the planet
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa graduate student Kālisi Mausio is going full…

Partnership with Sustainable Molokai to deliver PPE
Last month in June 2020, EF Hawaii partnered with PōMahina Designs to deliver 40 custom-made PōMahina…

Hands on, HI Joe!
“HI Joe!” is about coffee, said Danita Martinez, a shopper at the Kauai Community Market Saturday at Kauai Community College.…

KCC students shine in entrepreneur contest
Kauai Community College students did well in the nationwide “Entrepreneurship Challenge…

UH Ventures Accelerator announces companies in spring 2020 cohort
The UH Ventures Accelerator, powered by the Pacific Asian Center for…

More than $30k awarded to kickstart student-led businesses
Twenty two students from eight teams jump-started their innovative ideas…

A new product wins at the Shidler Business Plan Competition
Everett Amundson, one of the winners of the UH Business School business plan…

Really Fresh Fish from ReelFresh
Lauren and Spencer are winners in the Shidler Business School business plan competition. They are going to give us…

Pono Potions
Get your taste buds ready, because things are about to get sweet! Mikey Monis talks with founder of local syrup company, Pono Potions, to learn more about how…

Hundreds turn to UH Hilo student’s website during online learning transition
A web platform co-founded by a student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo is…

Hawaii startups plan for upcoming cohorts
Much like other sectors in business, COVID-19 is having an impact on local startups as they gear up and plan for…

$40,000 total awarded to three UH student startups
Through the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship, three University of Hawai‘i startup companies were…

UH Manoa student wins $2K for inventing a helmet that calls 9-1-1
A University of Hawaii at Manoa computer science student won $2,000…
Blog Posts

Hacking for Recovery
We’re holding a series of 5-day online classes at Stanford where teams will learn how to develop…

The Promise of Lean Experimentation
The work of innovation can be slow and cumbersome—particularly in the social…

Rising out of the Crisis: Where to Find New Markets..
The pandemic has upended the business models of most startups and existing…

The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup
“Winter is coming.” This is the one blog post that I hope I’m completely…

Action Today for CFO's
Jeff Epstein is on the board of Shutterstock, Twilio, Kaiser Permanente, and was…

How to Keep Your Company Alive - Observe, Orient...
What cashflow-negative companies must do to survive. We’re in uncharted…

Customer Discovery In the Time of the Covid-19 Virus
With in-person classes canceled, we’re about to start our online versions…

What's Missing From Zoom Reminds Us What It Means To Be Human
Over the last month billions of people…

In A Crisis - An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life
Sheltering in place during the Covid-19 pandemic, my coffees with current…

Seven Steps To Small Business Recovery
The world is a different place than it was 90 days ago. Countries traded saving…

The COVID-19 Virus Is Not Politically Correct
The Covid-19 virus is not politically correct. It discriminates against…

Tina Seelig: How constraint unleashes creativity
An expert in entrepreneurship explains why often a lack of resources is…