Agenda

UCIANS TBI
Startup Culture
Ideas that Change the World
Groupings
University of the Cordilleras
Innovation and Nurturing Space
(UCIANS)
Technology Business Incubator
 What is a TBI?
A facility where startups are hosted and business
development services are provided.
Start-Up is a show on Netflix that
talks about developing a startup. It
takes place in a TBI.
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Innovative Startup Act

An Act Providing Benefits and Programs to Strengthen, Promote and
Develop the Philippine Startup Ecosystem
 What is a Startup?
A startup is a project with the potential to be highly scalable working
to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious.
 Goal:
DEVELOP
STARTUP ECOSYSTEM
OF THE PHILIPPINES
Services Provided

Design Startup Development Capacity

Thinking Startup Competitions Incubation Program Technopreneurship Training
Building
Ideas that Change the World
Love people. Go places.
- Love, Listen, Learn - Take Action
- Understand problems - MVP + Testing
- Empathy - Ship ASAP

You. Change lives.

- Your Story - Connect dots
- Passion, Purpose, Calling - Build coalition
- Find your X factor - Scale
BDUF
Big Dream Up Front
Without any limitations, what are things you dream of doing later on in life
 BHAP
Big Hairy Audacious Problem
I want to help (who) to (what) because (why)
Imagine your life as a movie
POWERS:
List out unique superpowers you would use to help others
To find y (what), you must first determine your story + your superpowers.

Your story. Imagine your life was a movie and you were the guide to help those in need.
Reflect then list out the scenes and themes of your story when you were helping
others. What superpowers (gifts/talents) drives your story in the movie?

Scene Example Helping my family leave my country as a child due to war.

Scene #1 __________________________
Scene #2 __________________________
Scene #3 __________________________
Scene #4 __________________________
Scene #5 __________________________

Your superpowers. List out your unique superpowers you would use to help others in your movie.

• Excellent communicator (example)

• __________________________
• __________________________
• __________________________
• __________________________

Reflect on your scenes and superpowers, write out any connections you observe.
WHO:
Who am I passionate about helping?

Still rooted to story but lifting eyes and looking at characters who are
reappearing in the story
WHAT:
What do I want to help them with?

What are some scenes you see reappearing in your story?

WHY:
Why do I want to help them?

How do these scenes get concluded?

Imagine your life as a movie. What big, hairy, audacious problem are you meant to solve?

● Find your BHAP/X factor by solving for x and y Formula.

I want to help ___x___ (who) to ___y___(what) = My Big, Hairy Audacious Problem

(BHAP)

To find y, you must first determine your story + your superpowers.

To help x, you can solve for y first.

Let’s solve for x (who) and y (what).

To find x (who), ask yourself: who am I passionate about helping?

What types of characters keep reappearing in your story? Reflect then list out people you
feel called to serve and passionate about helping. You will then needs tools to develop
empathy to best help and not harm them.

People you feel called to serve.

1. __________________________
2. __________________________
3. __________________________
4. __________________________
Add more if needed.
Connect your x and y.

Ask yourself, what big, hairy, audacious problem am I meant to solve?

I want to help x to y because __________________________ = BHAP

I want to help x to y because ________.
The world has BIG PROBLEMS
Nearly 800 million people approximately don't have access to
clean water
Almost 2.5 billion don't have access to clean sanitation
40 million children worldwide live without a shelter
2 billion people don't have a bank account or access to basic
financial services
On the same planet 1.6 billion people live without electricity
Over 120 people die from suicide every day in the US
How will you respond?
YOU CAN BE THE SOLUTION
Do more with what you've been given. Start something that
changes lives
Where to begin?
“
“When we do for those in need what they have the
capacity to do for themselves, we disempower them.”
-Robert D. Lupton, Toxic Charity
Give a man a fish, you can feed him for a day; show
him how to catch a fish, and you can feed him for a
lifetime
Give man a fish.

Teach man to fish.

Empower and invest in man.

Help him buy the lake, start a fish hatchery, a chain of restaurants, sell fishing
licenses to the community, influence national policy, and build a fish
entrepreneur and training network for his country.
Impact Ventures
Ministry Entrepreneurs
Community Investors
Society Business Leaders
Missions
Non-Profit
Charity
Impact Venture
Redefine Entrepreneurship
This is Human Centered Design

Your Framework Storytelling

UX Design
User Needs / Stories
To Solve Empathy Mapping
Lean Startup

Problems MVP
Agile Development
Human Centered Design

Storytelling

UX Design

User Needs / Stories

Empathy Mapping

Lean Startup

MVP

Agile Development
Putting your knowledge into action to
add value and solve needs in others’
lives.