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UCLA Anderson Accelerator Masterclass: Cardano for the Real World: Submit your pitch

Earn a credential that is proof of what you learned

  1. I can make the economic case for a venture: who pays, at what price, with evidence from a customer conversation or a comparable.
  2. I can say where each on-chain record in my venture comes from, and how a false record would be caught.
  3. I can decide how decentralized my venture should be, and name the second party and why they would join.
  4. I can tie one real Cardano capability to my venture's problem, with its trade-off and an alternative I considered.
  5. I can say what AI produces, checks or does in my venture and what the chain adds to it, or argue why AI has no place.

The credential lives on the Cardano blockchain, and it is yours to keep. In this course, you completed exercises on Cardano Preprod. This credential is on Cardano Mainnet.

Your assignment: turn your pitch into a business case

You pitched a venture in five minutes. Now make it real: expand your Cardano Business Case Canvas into a business case that an investor, a grant committee or a co-founder could act on. A Cardano Academy reviewer reads it against the five learning targets above. When they accept it, you claim your credential to your own wallet, and anyone can check it without asking UCLA or Cardano Academy. Your accepted pitch is the capstone for the Cardano Academy Blockchain and AI Certificate, co-branded with the Venture Accelerator at UCLA Anderson and sponsored by the Cardano Foundation. Submit within two weeks of completing the masterclass, in person or online. You don't need any ADA.

Choose your venture

Build on the idea you pitched, or start again. Whichever you choose, it has to answer all seven canvas questions.

  • Theme A: Your reputation, your property. Design a venture that lets people take their ratings and reviews with them when they leave a platform. You can assume a credential system like Andamio already exists.
  • Theme B: An agent that pays on delivery. Design a venture where an AI agent on Cardano holds a payment and releases it when the goods or the work are verified.
  • Your own idea. A startup idea or a problem you know well.

What to submit

  1. The canvas, expanded: each of the seven questions answered on the one-pager template.
  2. A five-slide pitch: the five beats from today.
  3. One page on the build: which Cardano capability, roughly how, and what you'd prototype first.

Put everything in one shared folder or one PDF that opens without signing in. Paste on this page your venture's name, a one-line pitch, your team members' names if any, and the link. Each team member submits their team's overall output individually in order to claim their own credential. Please use the titling outlined on the Academy Practicum module. The model answer is the completed farmer's canvas in the learning space.

How it's reviewed

Pass or fail. The reviewer looks for this evidence, one item for each learning target above, in the same order:

  1. A named payer, a customer conversation or comparable, and a price.
  2. Where each on-chain record comes from, and how a false one is caught.
  3. The second party named, with their reason to join.
  4. One capability tied to the problem, with its trade-off and an alternative considered.
  5. What AI produces, checks or does, and what the chain gives it, or a reasoned "nowhere".

To pass, your submission shows all five. If one is missing, the reviewer sends it back with a note naming the canvas box to fix. Revise it and submit it again. Once your pitch is accepted, you can take it further in Submit your build, for a second credential.

UCLA Anderson Accelerator Masterclass: Cardano for the Real World: Submit your pitch

Your assignment: turn your pitch into a business case

You pitched a venture in five minutes. Now make it real: expand your Cardano Business Case Canvas into a business case that an investor, a grant committee or a co-founder could act on. A Cardano Academy reviewer reads it against the five learning targets above. When they accept it, you claim your credential to your own wallet, and anyone can check it without asking UCLA or Cardano Academy. Your accepted pitch is the capstone for the Cardano Academy Blockchain and AI Certificate, co-branded with the Venture Accelerator at UCLA Anderson and sponsored by the Cardano Foundation. Submit within two weeks of completing the masterclass, in person or online. You don't need any ADA.

Choose your venture

Build on the idea you pitched, or start again. Whichever you choose, it has to answer all seven canvas questions.

  • Theme A: Your reputation, your property. Design a venture that lets people take their ratings and reviews with them when they leave a platform. You can assume a credential system like Andamio already exists.
  • Theme B: An agent that pays on delivery. Design a venture where an AI agent on Cardano holds a payment and releases it when the goods or the work are verified.
  • Your own idea. A startup idea or a problem you know well.

What to submit

  1. The canvas, expanded: each of the seven questions answered on the one-pager template.
  2. A five-slide pitch: the five beats from today.
  3. One page on the build: which Cardano capability, roughly how, and what you'd prototype first.

Put everything in one shared folder or one PDF that opens without signing in. Paste on this page your venture's name, a one-line pitch, your team members' names if any, and the link. Each team member submits their team's overall output individually in order to claim their own credential. Please use the titling outlined on the Academy Practicum module. The model answer is the completed farmer's canvas in the learning space.

How it's reviewed

Pass or fail. The reviewer looks for this evidence, one item for each learning target above, in the same order:

  1. A named payer, a customer conversation or comparable, and a price.
  2. Where each on-chain record comes from, and how a false one is caught.
  3. The second party named, with their reason to join.
  4. One capability tied to the problem, with its trade-off and an alternative considered.
  5. What AI produces, checks or does, and what the chain gives it, or a reasoned "nowhere".

To pass, your submission shows all five. If one is missing, the reviewer sends it back with a note naming the canvas box to fix. Revise it and submit it again. Once your pitch is accepted, you can take it further in Submit your build, for a second credential.