Oki Tåg and Steven Balliano, Digirockstars Lean Workshop Intro Mindtrek 2016

1. Lean Workshop
Mindtrek // IoT Event Workshop
17th Oct 2016

2. The Facilitators
Oki Tåg
● 10+ years of startups
● lean since 2008
Steven Balliano
● Validation obsessed
entrepreneur

3. #digirockstars spots, funds & mentors early-stage startups
We intensively spot & screen early-stage startups, and with our hands-on
100 days mentorship program we help the best startups to relocate to our
superhub cities*.
#digirockstars is a superhub startup feeder
* SILICON VALLEY, BOSTON, NEW YORK, LONDON, BEIJING, KUALA LUMPUR, SINGAPORE, SYDNEY

4. Join us!
digirockstars.com
facebook.com/digirockstars
twitter.com/digirockstars
#digirockstars

5. What kind of projects
are you working on?

6. Today
● Why Lean matters? Is it something for me?
● How to practice Lean
● Actual work + Tools
Continue until 14:45 (15:00)

7. The agenda for the workshop...
...is to accelerate your learning speed.

8. Business model, one way to think
“Explain who has your money temporarily in his pocket
and how you're going to get it into yours.”

9. Principles
Traditional way:
“A solution looking for a problem”
Lean way:
“Identify a problem that we can solve”

10. Why does Lean matter?

13. Startup and its evolution
A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a
repeatable and scalable business model.
-- Steve Blank
Each iteration (a pivot) is a substantive change in one or more
components regarding your business model.

16. Lean Canvas

17. •Why lean methods matter
•Build understanding about your end-customer
•Question your ideas
•Fast!
•Create a working business model
• How and when to use them
•When you have a novel idea (testing needed to validate the idea)
Objectives

18. Workshop

19. - Find candidates to interview (who to ask)
- Learn interview basics (what to ask)
Objectives for Today

20. Customer Personas
Who is my potential customer?
Who can I easily access?

21. Customer Problems
Customer X might have problem Z

22. Get Out Of The Building!
Interview potential customers

23. Analyze Results & Next Steps
Pivot or Persevere?

24. QUESTIONS

25. www.digirockstars.com
Steven Balliano
steven@digirockstars.com
+358 45 848 1112
Oki Tåg
oki@digirockstars.com
+358 41 501 1501