The New Space Race

Supercharging Your Venture with Artificial Intelligence

The Founder's Blueprint

Every great space venture starts not with a rocket, but with a plan. The Business Model Canvas is your mission control, a single page to map out your entire strategy. It begins as nine fundamental guesses about how your business will create, deliver, and capture value.

Key Partners

Who are your strategic allies? (e.g., suppliers, agencies)

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Key Activities

What unique things does your business do?

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Key Resources

What assets are essential?

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Value Propositions

What problem are you solving? What need are you satisfying?

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Customer Relationships

How do you get, keep, and grow customers?

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Channels

How do you reach your customers?

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Customer Segments

Who are your most important customers?

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Cost Structure

What are the most important costs?

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Revenue Streams

How do we make money?

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Engage Your AI Co-Pilot

The modern entrepreneur doesn't work alone. AI is your research partner, ready to transform your initial guesses into data-driven hypotheses. This three-stage process integrates AI into every step of building your venture, from raw idea to polished pitch.

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AI-Powered Ideation

Use AI to brainstorm ideas, validate problems, and perform initial market sizing to populate your first Business Model Canvas.

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AI Competitive Analysis

Deploy AI agents to map the competitive landscape, identify market gaps, and sharpen your unique value proposition.

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AI-Assisted Pitching

Leverage AI to draft compelling content for your pitch deck and brainstorm the financial models to back it up.

From Guess to Hypothesis

Quality outputs require quality inputs. The "Art of the Prompt" framework turns a simple question into a strategic briefing for your AI. By defining a Persona, a clear Task, and a desired Format, you get precise, actionable intelligence instead of generic search results. This structured approach is the key to efficient and effective research.

PERSONA: "Act as a..."

Set the context. Tell the AI who to be (e.g., a VC, an aerospace engineer).

TASK: "Your task is to..."

Give a specific command. What should it do? (e.g., identify competitors, size a market).

FORMAT: "Provide as a..."

Define the output structure (e.g., a table, a bulleted list).

Accelerating Discovery

Integrating AI fundamentally changes the speed of entrepreneurship. Tasks that took days of manual research can now be accomplished in hours, allowing you to iterate on your business model faster and with more confidence.

Sizing the Cosmos

The NewSpace economy is expanding at an unprecedented rate. Understanding this trajectory is critical for positioning your venture. Investors need to see that you're not just building a product, but are targeting a large and growing market opportunity.

Projected Growth of the Global Space Economy

Capturing Investor Attention

You have seconds to make an impression. An effective pitch focuses on what investors care about most. While every slide matters, the core story revolves around the problem you solve, the team executing the vision, and the market you're capturing.

Crafting the Narrative

Your pitch deck is the story of your business. It's a structured narrative designed to build conviction and excitement. Following a proven 10-slide structure ensures clarity and covers the key questions every investor will ask.

  1. Venture Name & The Grab
  2. Team: Why You?
  3. Problem: What's the Pain?
  4. Solution: Your "Magic"
  5. Technology / How it Works
  6. Opportunity: The Market Size
  7. Competitive Advantage
  8. Business Model: How You Make Money
  9. Return on Investment / Roadmap
  10. Summary & The Ask

Now, Go Build The Future.

ASU SES 498/598: Space Business & Entrepreneurship