The Spirit of Silicon Valley at EIA

This article first appeared in BTS Issue 2. Building a start-up in just 15 days, EIA brings the spirit of Silicon Valley to you through speakers and mentors from the world’s top institutions such as Google...

EIA Italy Week 3

Greetings from Italy! Week 3 of the European Innovation Academy (EIA) focuses on improving the marketing campaigning, developing an IP protection plan, creating a funding strategy, and preparing for pitching on Friday, where the...

EIA Italy Week 2

Greetings from Italy! Week 2 of the European Innovation Academy (EIA) focuses on creating the business and revenue model, developing the marketing strategy and launching the marketing campaign, and building the minimum viable product....

EIA Italy Week 1

Greetings from Italy! Week 1 of the European Innovation Academy (EIA) focuses on team formation, ideation, problem-solution fit, product-market fit and problem and customer validation. Some of us had formed a team online prior,...

The Entrepreneurship Journey is One of Pains and Sufferings

My first week of EIA was rough. It was exhausting, but I loved it. From the very first day, my team was greeted with challenge. We did not have enough members, and that meant we...

EIA ITALY 8

We’re officially half-way through this craaaazy intense programme and it’s starting to feel like a typical day in SUTD (hinting at the lack of sleep ^ ^) All the teams are rushing to keep up...

EIA ITALY DAY 7

Wait… is this the 7th day already?? This is almost half way mark of the entire programme.  This week, we focus on marketing and how to sell your product after the validation of customer last week. Teams...

EIA ITALY DAY 6

Ciao from Italy! This post is coming a day late! The last three days have been tumultuous ones. News of the tragedy in Nice, where our concurrent EIA session is being held, came as a shock...

EIA ITALY DAY 4

Ciao, I am Michael Lee, Sophomore in EPD. Day 4. Today is another long day of our hectic schedules. Everyday everyone starts off the day leaving hostel at 845am.  Obviously too early in my opinion. Today lectures featured Thomas...

EIA ITALY DAY 3

Ciao, Its day 3 of EIA and things are looking great. Especially when you are greeted by infinite Italian espresso at the venue. Continuing on into the day, we learnt several important lessons about customer validation...

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