Before you set out to complete any task, ensure you’re solving the right problem. Next, consider how you’re framing the problem (Thomas Wedell-Wedellsbourg). Welcome to management-level thinking.

Whether you like it or not, to sell is human… so start practicing now while the stakes are low. You’ll have to pitch your business idea, pitch yourself as a worthy team member, and then pitch your business to the executives.

The beginning of every business opportunity is identifying the unmet need in the market, whether it is a problem not currently solved or the potential for a change in consumption.

Put simply, this is how you plan for your business to make money. If you want to go deeper, a business model is “a set of assumptions or hypotheses” (Alex Osterwalder) around the key resources and activities of your value chain in addition to your value proposition, customer relationships, channels, customer segments, cost structures, and revenue streams. When you’ve mastered all that, you win an MBA nerd badge.

Learn the art of conceptualization, design, development and marketing, and then go back to the drawing board and do it all over again and again. Warning: This is not for the faint of heart.

Once you’ve settled on your awesome business idea, how will you test it? Get customer feedback and determine whether your design will work or need adjustments before you spend valuable budget launching to a wider market.

When you’re an Achievement Robot, team projects are the absolute worst because your grades will not suffer from slackers!!! The dirty disconnect between school and work is that you have to actually work well with other people to achieve anything worthwhile. The happiest most successful people understand what they’re good at and where their shortcomings lie, and they form teams with people who have complementary strengths.

Once you’ve been through one session of Hudson Lab Ventures, you can apply to become an HLV Student Lead, where you practice your leadership skills as an innovator.