Stop wasting time and money building businesses and products that people won't buy. Learn how to build a business, innovate and launch new products the LEAN way.

1. LeanInnovation Lean Development Lean Startup Disrupting the status quo without risking everything. By DiamondHead Strategies

2. Have an idea?

3. How good is it?

4. I mean bet the farm good?

5. You know, million dollar good?(Scalable?)

6. Billion dollar good?

7. You could make a business plan.

8. Do the market research

9. Create the product

10. What if nobody wants it?

11. Because that’s what usually happens…90% of the time.

12. What do you mean nobody wants my product?!!

13. I made a 60 page business plan

14. I did the market research to find out what people wanted.

15. Besides, it cost an arm and a leg to make this thing.

16. Business plans are just guesses They become outdated at first contact with a real customer.

17. And market research? …a vague idea based on surveys.

18. If Henry Ford had done market research his customers would have said they wanted a faster horse.

19. Companies fail because they spend a lot of time and moneybuilding stuff nobody wants. Reality Idea

20. They build stuff based on guesses.

21. STOP it.

22. Stop wasting money

23. Stop wastingtime.

24. Stop wasting your dreams.

25. There’s another way to do this.

26. A betterway

27. It’s called LEAN

28. Manufacturing has been using it for years.

29. Only here, we apply it to new products, start ups and innovation.

30. To save lots of time and piles of money.

31. Lean means only doing what matters and getting rid of the rest.

32. HOW?

33. Learn & Discover first, fast and cheap.

34. To preserve cash and learn as fast as possible. To answer…

35. …just how good is thisidea?

36. Q: How do I innovate my idea so that millions of people actually want it?

37. What we need is a system…a LEAN system…fast, cheap and that works.

38. A system that rapidly generates innovative business models

39. …and rapidly tests them…cheaply.

40. It exists.

41. Here’s the view from 40,000 feet…

42. Ingredient 1: Ideas IDEA Stream

43. Ingredient 2: Something to test Minimum viable product

44. Ingredient 3: Rapid & Cheap testing Test the product on the cheap

45. Ingredient 4: Draw some conclusions Learn & Discover

46. Ingredient 5: Innovate Adaptation

47. SPEED The Faster the better Speed means efficiency

48. Repeat until…escape velocity (an idea so good customers will knock your doors down) Escape Velocity Adapted IDEA The Pivot A system to find Escape Velocity: Innovation perfected.

49. FAST AGILE innovation that promises results. IDEA Stream Agile Innovation SPEED SPEED SPEED Build Minimum viable product The Pivot Learn TEST the product cheaply

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51. DiamondHead StrategiesNumber 1 in St. Louis for…LEAN Innovation | Start up | Development

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