The workshop:

Some notes:

• testing the problem vs testing the product
• connecting to the people through our chain
• problem presentation is not a sale pitch!
• Listening skills, if you disagree, ask yourself “is it worth it?”
• Be the dumbest person in the room when you are interviewing
• make people feel like a star
• If you don’t respect them, they won’t tell you
• Don’;t say “I knew that”
• Sketch the plan of Record
• Channels, a customer might be a channel!
• What is the cost of each channel
• Don’t get too excited about a particular adoption model!

Comments From the other groups during our presentation:

• Are you trying to tap into the DIYBio movement, for your low end? http://diybio.org/
•  3D printing of biocompatible stents – huge market! demand already exists for stents! usually metal and/or drug coated! potential market!
•  Work with Shapeways or (as you mentioned) thingverse to start to include bio-models? They already have access to users you’re looking for. http://www.shapeways.com/
•  Kinda like http://grabcad.com/  for CAD software?
•  Bio – Life Science BC represents all the pharma/biotech companies in BC. I can pass you on a contact if you think that would be useful. (enfinlay from foosler)
• @3DPrinter – I had a co-op at BC Cancer Agency, might be able to get you a contact (axon_Eoin from axon)
• I talked to them, and they are going to connect us to some local tissue engineering company as well: incubone.com and navident.ca
•  Would the 3D bioprinting “surrounding” issues similar to those of 3D Printers like Rep Rap?

Plans for the next two weeks:

– Working on the work flow and purchasing work flow

– Sketching the plan of record

–  Submit disclosure to UILO office

–  Design and flesh out openVitro.com

– Test different adoption models

– Interviews:

• Start interviewing grad students and research staff as they are ultimately the end users.
• Keep contacting and interviewing UBC academic researchers
• Update the company lists, and start contacting and interviewing them. The ones that are in our network first.
• Updating the one pager, and follow up with the grant facilitator that we interviewed last week for finding more connections.