From Idea to Traction: Market Development Strategies for Early Stage Startups
🧪 Turn Ideas Into Impact
You’ve built the MVP. Now what?
Early-stage companies often face the same bottleneck: finding the right market and proving demand before scaling. In this tactical workshop, we’ll break down how to go from zero users to your first real traction using lean, validated market development strategies.
In this hands‑on session, Idan Beck — serial entrepreneur and technical leader behind Epoch AI, a groundbreaking venture backed by top VCs — will guide you through proven methods to validate your product, gather customer truth, and iterate in real time. Learn how to get rapid feedback, refine your value proposition, and make confident decisions based on data, not guesswork.
💡 You’ll Walk Away With:
✅ Proven frameworks to test and confirm product market fit
✅ Techniques for engaging customers early and gathering honest feedback
✅ Metrics and signals that matter at each validation stage
✅ Stories from Idan’s journey at Epoch AI on navigating discovery and iteration
👥 This Workshop Is For:
Founders building or iterating new products for the U.S. market
Teams eager to validate ideas before scaling operations
Product leaders refining hypotheses with real customer insights
Anyone launching bold tech and wanting validation before committing
🎙️ About the Speaker
Idan Beck is Co‑Founder at Epoch AI, a company revolutionizing machine learning in game testing, backed by Prefix Capital, South Park Commons, and Atypical Ventures. With a deep technical background from Cupertino, Idan brings a data first approach and passion for building products that customers love. He’s led teams through every stage of product discovery, iteration, and launch and now empowers other founders to iterate smarter and build products with true market resonance.
🔥 About the Series
This session is part of Founders Go Global, a virtual workshop series by BLOCK71 Silicon Valley helping ambitious founders from Asia and beyond bring their ideas to life in the U.S. Get tactical, data‑driven strategies from people who have built real products for real markets.
🎟️ Reserve your spot now. Bring your product idea, and walk away with a custom market development game plan.
Questions? Reach us at siliconvalley@block71.co