About Teaching

I'm teaching a course on systems analysis for first-year innovation students, and every time I catch myself thinking that this subject is the main divider between a beautiful presentation and a real product.

Innovation students need systems analysis not to become data analysts. But to:
— Not reinvent the wheel that is already patented
— Understand where in the business model there is a hole that no brilliant idea can fill
— Turn "wants" into requirements that can be used to build a prototype


In class yesterday, we analyzed a case: a startup comes to an investor with a presentation, and the investor asks three questions about the system. And the startup fails because they thought about the mission, not the system.

The most valuable thing I take away from teaching is testing my own knowledge. When you explain to first-year students how to decompose a complex system into simple elements, you realize: 90% of problems in innovation come precisely from not putting everything on the shelves in time.