Challenge Based Startup Learning: A Framework to Teach Software Startup

• Rafael Chanin PUCRS
• Afonso Sales PUCRS
• Leandro Pompermaier PUCRS
• Rafael Prikladnicki PUCRS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/cbsoft_estendido.2021.17294

Abstract

This paper introduces the Challenge Based Startup Learning, a framework that combines the Challenge Based Learning methodology with Lean Startup and Customer Development concepts, supported by software development techniques. We have applied and evaluated the framework in an undergraduate digital entrepreneurship course. Our preliminary results indicate that students not only understood what it takes to run a real startup, but they also felt engaged and empowered by delivering a useful and meaningful software.

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