A STORY OF MY PRODUCT
Using LeanStartup
WHO AM I
Nicolas Deverge
@ndeverge

Working @ ekito as Software
Developer & Agile Facilitator
Micro-entrepreneur at night
THE PROBLEM
As a developer, I have a kickass idea and I don't know how to start*

* apart from coding the whole thing with the coolest technologies
VALIDATE THE IDEA
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster
horses."
Henry Ford
LEANSTARTUP TO THE RESCUE
"We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they
want or what we think they should want"
@ericries
LEANSTARTUP TO THE RESCUE
THE IDEA
THE LEAN CANVAS
MY OBJECTIVES
★ Rule the world !
★ Build something of my own
★ Learn new things
★ Money ?
LET’S SHOW A MVP
ANNOUNCE
WHO CLICKS ON THE LINK ?
THE LANDING PAGE
WHO GIVES HIS EMAIL ?
MEASURE
MEASURES
The Funnel : AARRR
“Pirate metrics” by
Dave McClure
SOME STATS
In 24 hours
★ About 400 unique
visitors
★ About 70 registrations

Conversion rate of
17,5 %
BUT IT’S NOT SUFFICIENT

Why does people give their emails ?
LEARN
LET’S ASK TO AN EXPERT

Ash
Me
GET OUT OF THE BUILDING !*
Let’s start a survey
★ Email to 100 people
★ About 40 answers

* Customer Development by Steve Blank’s “The Four Steps to the Epiphany”
GET OUT OF THE BUILDING !*

* Customer Development by Steve Blank’s “The Four Steps to the Epiphany”
GET OUT OF THE BUILDING !*

JUG’s prez

* Customer Development by Steve Blank’s “The Four Steps to the Epiphany”
WHAT I LEARNED SO FAR

★ People take time to give you
feedback
★ People kinda want to be a part of
the story
★ People do not consider your emails
as spam
MY OBJECTIVES
★ Rule the world !
★ Build something of my own
★ Learn new things
★ Money ?
THE PLAN NOW
START YOUR OWN !
EXCUSES
I HAVE NO IDEA
IT’S NOT THE RIGHT TIME
IT TAKES TIME
IT COSTS MONEY
A theme on http://wrapbootstrap.com

6$

A domain name

10$

Hosting on Heroku

free

Some passionate time to build it

priceless !!
START NOW !
BOOKS
YES YOU CAN!
Got an idea and a bit of free time? Start now!
You will:
learn new things
enjoy doing your stuff
meet new people

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The riskiest thing: success!
QUESTIONS ?

A story of my incoming product using LeanStartup