SVIA

Evolving SVIA for 2017

Every year is an experiment, and the Silicon Valley Innovation Academy for 2016 was no exception. The team made some big changes, some of which didn’t work well for a significant number of students. We’ve reviewed the feedback extensively and are going to make a lot of changes for 2017…

SVIA: Biggest Takeaways

7 Weeks of intensive effort, concluding just like that.

[SVIA] Bruxism Detection 103: NightFix

| Written by Manasi Patwa and Ling Ye

“Teeth grinding affects 92% of the population, but diagnosis is delayed and expensive.”

[SVIA] Sprint- Creating an ice-cream business in a day with 50+ people

| Written by Ling Ye and Steve Renda

Silicon Valley is where innovation happens. Innovation happens at Stanford, too, just faster. The SVIA Innovation Sprint challenges Stanford…

MathHealth — Cancer Treatment [SVIA]

Our team’s goal is to improve Cancer treatment by creating a cheaper, safer, and more reliable treatment method with the use of a mathematical model.

During our first meeting we decided to pain storm and put down possible customer…

A change in perspective

As we entered our third and fourth weeks of SVIA and conducted more interviews to understand the plethora of problems and issues that people with dementia face, our viewpoint on the problem completely changed.

Week 3 — New VPs and a logo!

The NoiseCrunch team has interviewed more people in the last week in order to get more clarity and improvization on our value proposition. We as a team believe that no human being can work in a place where he or she isn’t comfortable and comfort here means eliminating their…

SVIA: Validating Hypotheses

The last week was spent testing our hypotheses out as well as speaking to people in the industry. The thing about gift-giving that we learned from both our and others’ experiences is that it is incredibly diverse. As such, there are so many areas and variations to cover. We are…