The United States Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded our friends, Grupo Guayacán, Inc., a grant to launch I-Corps Puerto Rico. I-Corps is a customer discovery boot camp for entrepreneurs looking to build and develop scalable business models. GGI, with strategic partners  to launch a local version of the successful Startup Gauntlet, a program offered by the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), which is modeled after the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps). The program helps researchers and entrepreneurs identify product and company opportunities, and learn about entrepreneurship. Through the program, participants are able to identify valuable product opportunities which can emerge from their work and take the first steps towards commercialization.

The I-Corps program is designed for small teams of entrepreneurs, ideally 2-4 people, to learn about the Customer Discovery method developed by Steve Blank, and the Business Model Canvas popularized by Alex Osterwalder. These teams must have identified an innovative idea and be interested in validating it and building a business model around it. If you want to learn more and to apply click here.