Introducing the Foundation Sprint: From the creators of the Design Sprint

The sprint is GV’s unique five-day process for answering crucial questions through prototyping and testing ideas with customers.

The sprint is GV’s unique five-day process for answering crucial questions through prototyping and testing ideas with customers.

The sprint gives our startups a superpower: They can fast-forward into the future to see their finished product and customer reactions, before making any expensive commitments.

magic ingredients—a focus on individual work, time to prototype, and an inescapable deadline? I decided to call it a design “sprint.”

The Foundation Sprint works like this: On day one, you’ll focus on basics and differentiation. You’ll identify the problem you’re solving and form a plan to set your solution far apart from the competition. On day two, you’ll find the right approach for your project. You’ll generate options, put them through rapid and rigorous evaluation, and choos