Leuphana Startup School - Founders' Talk II: „How I Built the Product“
Learn AI. Build Products. Start Companies.
20. May
MVP, early adopters, bugs and pivots
Time & Location
Wednesday, 20 May 2026 | 4.00 pm – 5.30 pm
Leuphana University Lüneburg | C25.019 (Trafos)
Universitätsallee 1, 21335 Lüneburg
REGISTRATION
Participation is free of charge.
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A founder talks about the journey from the first prototype to a working product. What was built first? What was left out? How do you find your first users? An honest perspective on the phase where an idea becomes something tangible.
What will you take away from this?
- An understanding that a first product doesn’t have to be perfect
- Insights into real-life build decisions: What came first? What was never included?
- Practical inspiration for your own MVP approach
Agenda
- Founder recounts the product journey: MVP and first users
- How was it decided what to build first?
- Mistakes and pivots along the way
- Interactive Q&A
- Reflection: “What is the simplest version of YOUR idea?”
Making political processes more transparent through technological innovation
Based in Lüneburg, Poliscope develops digital tools that make political information from across Germany accessible and searchable.
The company automatically collects data from thousands of local council and planning systems, structures it and consolidates it on a central platform. This enables businesses, journalists, researchers and other users to identify political developments more quickly, conduct more informed research and better contextualise decisions.
Particularly in the field of the energy transition, Poliscope helps to highlight changes in planning law at an early stage.
With applications such as the AI-powered research assistant ‘CLARA’, the team combines technological innovation with the aim of making political processes more transparent and user-friendly.
