Design sprints have been consuming conversations over the past year, amongst all sorts of makers — from authors testing out new book concepts to software teams working on the next VR breakthroughs. I mean, who wouldn’t love a prescriptive framework that enables you to validate your biggest ideas in 5 days?

Over the past year we’ve all learned a lot about design sprints — the 5-day process incubated at Google Ventures to help companies solve big challenges. Here’s what the executive suite as well as leaders on the business side of operations need to know…

The Techstars accelerator program has come to be known as one of the best options for early stage companies, especially those within the #1 fastest growing startup ecosystem, globally — Berlin.

When Mentorina, a start-up based in Montreal, came knocking on our door (by which I mean they gave us a call) to discuss an adaptive learning platform, I was excited. Both of my kids go to public school, a fact that gives me countless headaches.

When LRN, a company based in Montreal, came knocking on our door (by which I mean they gave us a call) to discuss an adaptive learning platform, I was excited. Both of my kids go to public school, a fact that gives me countless headaches.

When LRN, a company based in Montreal, came knocking on our door (by which I mean they gave us a call) to discuss an adaptive learning platform, I was excited. Both of my kids go to public school, a fact that gives me countless headaches.

In the previous 3 articles of this series we summarized the basics of a design sprint, let you peer inside a sprint in action at New Haircut and organized your plan for engaging and coordinating your sprint team.

In the previous articles in this series we first provided you with a foundation of what design sprints are and why they’re invaluable to companies trying to solve important products. In the second article, we shared a behind-the-scenes look at a design sprint we recently ran for an early stage startup.

In the first article of this series we introduced the framework for running design sprints — a 5-day process for rapidly creating and testing prototypes with your customers.

Learn how you can get viable solutions in the hands of your paying customers in 5 days.

Or, How to launch better products in 5 days and save your company 6 figures. Before we begin, head to Google and search “why do technology RFPs exist”.

Famous last words from too many first-time tech entrepreneurs.