8-week online fellowship
Finding product-market fit in edtech
With Matt Walton CPO and EdTech product coach
Build the mindset, toolkit and network you need to create a successful learning product.
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Commitment
This learning fellowship expects you to commit around 4-5 hours per week. It is on your schedule with the exception of the live workshops - these are interactive and therefore not available on demand.
Next cohort: 14 February 2024
8 weeks
2-3 hours self-paced learning p/w
7 x 105min live workshops every Wed
30 min weekly peer mentoring intros
1 x 60min coaching session with Matt
“This has been really crucial in helping me level up in a product role. I cannot recommend this highly enough to push you into your next role. Thank you for an inspiring, challenging and brilliant fellowship.”
Rachel Haak
Director of Learning Experience, Sales Impact Academy
"I had an absolute blast on the Finding-Product Market Fit Fellowship! Matt Walton has put together an absolute cracker of a course that I would highly recommend to anyone working in ed-tech."
Christophe Walder
Senior Product Manager, Teach A Man To Fish
"What a joy and comprehensive learning journey it was to join the Finding Product-Market Fit In EdTech fellowship.So many great tools to leverage and resources to explore, as well as a great bunch of humans to learn from and share experiences with!"
Marion Trigodet
Head of Learning & Community, Tomorrow University
"I would highly recommend the course to anyone building or growing a new product. The course felt like it was structured by a learning expert, with a great blend of learning methods. I am and will continue returning to the course content regularly."
Bertie O'Brien
Senior Product Manager, MyTutor
"Thanks to this fellowship I now have a super clear understanding of my target customer. The journey Matt's created opened my eyes wide to the growth potential of my business unit, and to my own role as a sort-of-product-manager within it. He's warm, super-transparent and very effective."
Ian Ellard
Head of V&A Academy, Victoria and Albert Museum
“An invigorating 8-week fellowship with a dynamic cohort of EdTech leaders, innovators, and impact entrepreneurs! Along with an abundance of valuable resources, the programme expanded my perspective and helped me consolidate my product knowledge.”
Linyun Qiu
Product Manager, Multiverse
Learning experience
Work through a playbook of concepts, methods and case studies and join a small intimate cohort every week to explore them and work out how to apply it to your product.
Fellowship overview
What will we cover?
Each week there will be self-paced learning and activities, followed by a workshop to work through concepts and apply methods with your peers.
Week 1
What is product-market fit in EdTech?
We set the scene by exploring what product-market fit is and the unique challenges and opportunities in EdTech.
Get clear about your goals, define your product and market and meet your peers.
Week 2
Vision
Understand the role of vision and find your unique perspective
Define and communicate a tangible product vision
Formulate your product (market-fit) strategy
Methods: Visiontype, Vision Sprint, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Cases: SanaLabs
Week 3
Discover
Find the product for your users (not users for your product)
Conduct continuous product discovery and user research
Validate your riskiest assumptions
Methods: Jobs To Be Done, Opportunity Solution Tree, Minimum Viable Tests, No/lo code, Design Sprint
Cases: Springboard, Multiverse, RaspberryPi
Week 4
Consolidation and catchup
No workshop
Week 5
Measure
Understand the complexity of measuring in edtech
Measure the metrics that matter at each stage
Spot the signs of Product-Market Fit
Methods: PMF survey, North Star metric, Metrics You Can Move, John Danner’s Scorecard
Cases: Trilogy, Busuu
Week 6
Grow
Focus on retention and sustainable growth
Find product-channel fit
Harness emotion and behaviour
Methods: Hooked, Hand/Heart/Mind, The Flywheel, Community
Cases: Kahoot!, StudySmarter, Blinkist
Week 7
Sell
Understand when to monetise and your value narrative
Match your model to your channels, users and motivation
Find the right pricing model
Methods: Business model canvas, Channel-model fit, Value-metric pricing, Van Westerdorp pricing model
Cases: BridgeU
Week 8
Reflection and Mini Capstone
We’ll finish by bringing it all together with a mini capstone: a 5-minute lightening reflection from each participant.
About you
For product people and product-minded founders in EdTech startups and scale ups.
A founder looking for some structure and support to help you build your product
Someone in a product role in an EdTech startup looking for support and a playbook
A product manager, moving into education
An educator, moving into product management
A product person in a edtech scale-up needing to explore new markets
Your guide
Matt Walton
Matt is Chief Product Officer for London Interdisciplinary School and has coached and advised edTech startups and scale ups, including OpenClassrooms, Microverse and Academy. He is also faculty lead for Emerge Education’s Product-Market Fit Academy. Previously, he was one of the founding team and Chief Product Officer at FutureLearn.
standard price
£1495
Expense the cost with your employer.
Group discounts available.
Self-funded & non-profit
£995
Discounted rate for those funding their own development and non-profits.
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"What a joy and comprehensive learning journey it was to join the Finding Product-Market Fit In EdTech fellowship.So many great tools to leverage and resources to explore, as well as a great bunch of humans to learn from and share experiences with!"
Marion Trigodet
Head of Learning & Community, Tomorrow University
"I would highly recommend the course to anyone building or growing a new product. The course felt like it was structured by a learning expert, with a great blend of learning methods. I am and will continue returning to the course content regularly."
Bertie O'Brien
Senior Product Manager, MyTutor