Ship a Lean Flood-Insurance MVP and Convert Two Nordic Pilots
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Ship a Lean Flood-Insurance MVP and Convert Two Nordic Pilots. Advanced challenge in strategy. Developing strategies for real business problems, earn a block...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Ship a minimum viable parametric flood-insurance product and convert at least two paying pilots from a twelve-operator pipeline in six weeks, with honest learnings for the seed round.
This is not a case study exercise. It is the work a consultant does when a client needs a recommendation backed by evidence. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates recite Porter's Five Forces and none who have built a recommendation a client would actually pay for.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Translate a vague venture goal into a single riskiest assumption and a minimum viable product that tests it directly
- Scope a hero workflow and defend explicit deferrals under a fixed budget and timeline
- Integrate a pre-existing pricing and risk model into a shippable product instead of rebuilding it
- Run a disciplined customer-discovery and conversion campaign and read objection patterns honestly
- Communicate wins, misses, and next steps to investors without inflating results
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Lean Startup
Validate business hypotheses rapidly through build-measure-learn cycles.
- Venture Building
Apply venture building to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Mvp Design
Apply mvp design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Customer Discovery
Apply customer discovery to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Go To Market
Apply go to market to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Stakeholder Communication
Apply stakeholder communication to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Founding Product Manager
This challenge mirrors the day-one reality of a founding PM: turning a fixed budget and a single model into a shippable product, then proving customers will pay. You leave with a portfolio piece showing scope judgment, build oversight, and evidence-based investor communication under real constraints.
This challenge sharpens
- mvp-design
- lean-startup
- stakeholder-communication
Venture Builder / Entrepreneur in Residence
Studios and venture builders need operators who can validate an assumption fast and decide to persevere or pivot. By running a riskiest-assumption test against a real pipeline and writing a candid readout, you practice the exact loop venture builders run before committing capital to a new bet.
This challenge sharpens
- venture-building
- customer-discovery
- lean-startup
Go-to-Market Lead, Early-Stage SaaS
Converting two pilots from twelve cold prospects with structured sequences and honest objection analysis is core early-stage go-to-market work. This challenge builds the muscle of reading conversion data and objection clusters to refine positioning and pricing.
This challenge sharpens
- go-to-market
- customer-discovery
- stakeholder-communication