Road Mapping for Entrepreneurs: Safe Passage Across the Valley of Death - Pit Stop

Описание: In healthcare innovation, teams can hit every milestone and still fail—building a technically sound “Bridge to Nowhere” that solves a problem no one cares about. Building on his previous session on "Designing for Value," Donald Munroe, Ph.D., returns to tackle the operational reality of "Designing Out Risk." Startups don’t die from lack of ideas—they die in the “Valley of Death,” where confidence decays faster than value is created. This session challenges the "Old School" timeline roadmap, a rigid schedule of features that forces scientists to lie about discovery, and introduces the roadmap as an "Earned Value Scorecard."

Viewers will learn the 7 Principles of the Navigator’s Roadmap, aligning the twin engines of Value Verification (Design Thinking) and Risk Reduction (Technology Readiness Levels). Through Agile Road-Mapping (Now-Next-Later), founders will replace “validation theater” with a strategy that builds investor confidence and turns discovery into an investable reality.

Donald Munroe is Founder and Principal of Stratagem Healthworks, with 20+ years leading diagnostic and health-tech platforms from concept through regulatory clearance and commercialization. He advises startups and investors on disciplined product strategy, roadmapping, and de-risked innovation.

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