A session from Ben Rowe at Product Camp Melbourne / October 2014.
We've all accepted that creating an MVP is the smart way to build digital products. The problem with MVPs, though, is there’s a danger in rushing to market with something that’s viable, but misses the ‘delight’ factor. See more of the talk details at http://pcampmelbourne.com
Five minute presentation about the lean startup business development methodology intended to be given at the beginning of Cincinnati Lean Startup Circle meetings.
Geek Sync | How to Deal with an Inherited SQL ServerIDERA Software
You can watch the replay for this Geek Sync webcast in the IDERA Resource Center: http://ow.ly/lF4i50A5r4Q
Join Idera and SQL Savant Andy Warren for a Geek Sync where we walk you through a set of Week 1 Best Practices and provide insight on how to prioritize the tasks necessary to navigate the new SQL database to ensure you provide maximum results with minimal negative impact to the organization.
A session from Ben Rowe at Product Camp Melbourne / October 2014.
We've all accepted that creating an MVP is the smart way to build digital products. The problem with MVPs, though, is there’s a danger in rushing to market with something that’s viable, but misses the ‘delight’ factor. See more of the talk details at http://pcampmelbourne.com
Five minute presentation about the lean startup business development methodology intended to be given at the beginning of Cincinnati Lean Startup Circle meetings.
Geek Sync | How to Deal with an Inherited SQL ServerIDERA Software
You can watch the replay for this Geek Sync webcast in the IDERA Resource Center: http://ow.ly/lF4i50A5r4Q
Join Idera and SQL Savant Andy Warren for a Geek Sync where we walk you through a set of Week 1 Best Practices and provide insight on how to prioritize the tasks necessary to navigate the new SQL database to ensure you provide maximum results with minimal negative impact to the organization.
Eric Ries, Author/Speaker/Consultant, The Lean Startup500 Startups
Presentation by Eric Ries (Author/Speaker/Consultant, The Lean Startup) at the 'Lean Startup, Lean Investor' event on November 3, 2010 (Produced by 500 Startups & Nokia/Nokia Growth Partners)
How to Innovate for Profit - insideinnovation.coLeslie Barry
This talk covers:
Why Bother with Innovation?
Why We Care.
Failure is Rapid Learning.
Simple Steps to Get Results.
3 Surprising Examples.
What You Can Start Today.
Validating business ideas quickly with Lean - Tadas LabudisTadas Labudis
Validating assumptions that underline a business idea is critical to the success of a new venture. Lean Startup approach encourages iterative experimentation that allows to deliver maximum value to customers with minimum amount of waste. In this presentation I will outline how tools such as Business Model Canvas and Validation Board allow entrepreneurs to structure their thoughts and experiments.
Accelerated controlled failure through large-scale experimentation is creating some of the most valuable companies on earth. What can we learn from Elon Musk, tesla, SpaceX, Google? How do you go from idea to Pretotype to viable product?
Learn how to build a minimum viable product using the Lean Startup methodology. Intended for people with no business background or familiarity with the Lean Startup Methodology.
Some Perspective (Nspire Discovery Series)Satish Kanwar
My slide deck from the Nspire Discovery Series hosted at the University of Toronto. Presentation was 15 minutes with Q&A.
Shared my perspective on 'the modern tools of creation' for early stage application companies. Topics included: perception vs reality, how the environment has changed, approaches to applications, business model generation, customer development, lean startup, etc.
Learn more about this event at http://nspire.org or #nspire_ds.
Contact me anytime @skanwar or http://jetcooper.com.
This session will review the concept of WIP and explore in-depth the reasons for limiting WIP: enhancing focus, reducing cycle time, optimizing flow and making bottlenecks visible. We will give strategies for starting out with WIP limits and suggestions for what to do when a limit is reached. Finally, we'll put theory to practice by running a short, virtual simulation that all attendees can participate in.
Find what is the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and how to create an MVP.
This slide was created for my "MVP workshop" at TrigUp's Pre-Accelerating Program.
Being productive is a great advantage. So, today, we will give you some tips on how to work faster and be productive with great results. Keep checking our blog for more tips & tricks at http://kanbantool.com/blog.
Eric Ries, Author/Speaker/Consultant, The Lean Startup500 Startups
Presentation by Eric Ries (Author/Speaker/Consultant, The Lean Startup) at the 'Lean Startup, Lean Investor' event on November 3, 2010 (Produced by 500 Startups & Nokia/Nokia Growth Partners)
How to Innovate for Profit - insideinnovation.coLeslie Barry
This talk covers:
Why Bother with Innovation?
Why We Care.
Failure is Rapid Learning.
Simple Steps to Get Results.
3 Surprising Examples.
What You Can Start Today.
Validating business ideas quickly with Lean - Tadas LabudisTadas Labudis
Validating assumptions that underline a business idea is critical to the success of a new venture. Lean Startup approach encourages iterative experimentation that allows to deliver maximum value to customers with minimum amount of waste. In this presentation I will outline how tools such as Business Model Canvas and Validation Board allow entrepreneurs to structure their thoughts and experiments.
Accelerated controlled failure through large-scale experimentation is creating some of the most valuable companies on earth. What can we learn from Elon Musk, tesla, SpaceX, Google? How do you go from idea to Pretotype to viable product?
Learn how to build a minimum viable product using the Lean Startup methodology. Intended for people with no business background or familiarity with the Lean Startup Methodology.
Some Perspective (Nspire Discovery Series)Satish Kanwar
My slide deck from the Nspire Discovery Series hosted at the University of Toronto. Presentation was 15 minutes with Q&A.
Shared my perspective on 'the modern tools of creation' for early stage application companies. Topics included: perception vs reality, how the environment has changed, approaches to applications, business model generation, customer development, lean startup, etc.
Learn more about this event at http://nspire.org or #nspire_ds.
Contact me anytime @skanwar or http://jetcooper.com.
This session will review the concept of WIP and explore in-depth the reasons for limiting WIP: enhancing focus, reducing cycle time, optimizing flow and making bottlenecks visible. We will give strategies for starting out with WIP limits and suggestions for what to do when a limit is reached. Finally, we'll put theory to practice by running a short, virtual simulation that all attendees can participate in.
Find what is the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and how to create an MVP.
This slide was created for my "MVP workshop" at TrigUp's Pre-Accelerating Program.
Being productive is a great advantage. So, today, we will give you some tips on how to work faster and be productive with great results. Keep checking our blog for more tips & tricks at http://kanbantool.com/blog.
A direct multimedia marketing concept that has been successfully utilized world-wide by a variety of industries, organizations and government entities. Not only is the V-Mailcard a dynamic marketing tool, it’s also ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE. The concept can dramatically reduce paper consumption along with print and shipping expense.
"Finally, the Perfect Lighting Solutions."
The SmarT-Bay from Stonco & ExceLine is the first intelligently designed linear fluorescent highbay luminaire engineered specifically for use with occupancy sensors.
SmarT-Bay overcomes the problem of premature lamp failure due to frequent uncontrolled switching when used
with occupancy sensors. It carries a One Source, One Solution, One Warranty promise providing you with 36 months of total protection from one manufacturer.
Slides from my presentation at CodeIgniter Conference 2010 in Bristol in August 2010.
What I talked about:
- Startups: methodologies & techniques
- CodeIgniter: applying what we’ve learned
- The future: how could things be better
Dropbox: Building Business Through Lean Startup PrinciplesVishal Kumar
A Deck by Drew Houston from Dropbox explaining how Dropbox incorporated Lean Startup Principles in building their company. A great primer on how dropbox executed their startup.
Optimize Your Funnel By Getting Inside Your Buyer's HeadDavid Skok
Part of finding product/market fit is turning early wins into repeatable, scalable, and profitable sales. In this talk given as part of the Heavybit speaker series, I discuss how to shorten the time to customer conversion from trials, freemium and open source products.
Facebook, Netflix, Flickr, Etsy, LinkedIn, eSurance, Instagram and Salesforce.com; you know their names. As a consumer, you’ve probably used services provided by many of them. These are some of the “born on the web” companies of the last couple of decades that have helped pioneer new, web-based business models - and in the process become dominant players in their markets, or created new markets altogether. Call them the “Cool Kids”.
What you may not know, however, is that these companies are also strong adopters of a DevOps approach when it comes to software development and delivery. In this presentation we take a look at these companies to discern patterns related to how they have applied DevOps in the areas of Culture, Organization, Practices, Automation and Measurements.
Even if your company bears no resemblance at all to the Cool Kids, you can take away some important learnings from them as you look to apply DevOps to your own software initiatives.
This presentation is a result of a joint project executed by IBM strategists Bill Holtshouser and Carl Zetie, both of the Rational division in IBM Software Group, during the first half of 2014.
No startup business experiences the same journey to success, but there are general stages that most companies move through as they grow:
1) Validation
2) Product Development
3) Commercialization
4) Scale/Growth
The Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation (CEI) helps its clients through these stages of business development and offers best practices for each stage. Represented by an amazing lineup of speakers, including Hart Shafer (Innovation Coach / Founder, Theraspecs), Eric Miller (Principal, PADT Inc.), Nate Curran (Entrepreneur-in-Residence, CEI) and Russ Yelton (CEO, Pinnacle Transplant Technologies, "The Startup Lifecycle" presentation offers unique insights and best practices for entrepreneurs growing their business.
Aubrey Smith, Sparked Advisory
In this training, we will build on the foundation established in Lean Startup 101 and 201 by delving into examples and cases of the Lean Startup concepts in action. Attendees of Lean Startup 301 will be exposed to cutting edge work from thought leaders and experts using Lean Startup in practice today — at startups and within the enterprise. Participation in this session is essential: You will be asked to help design an MVP and experiment to test critical Leap of Faith Assumption(s) in groups and will be encourage to share experiences. The session is designed to allow attendees to stretch their skills and to push one-another to ‘learn by doing’. The session will also include:
Sample cases and live interviews with practitioners highlighting the application of core concepts;
Exercises designed to bring the concepts to life and challenge participants to deepen their skills;
Discussion of advanced topics such organizational culture and governance as well as industry-specific concepts such as using Lean Startup in heavily regulated markets.
Thanks to Lean Startup Co.’s law firm, Orrick, for being the sponsor for this track.
It's a new trend of starting a start-up happen all around the world. It's not surprising knowing that the idea is from Silicon Valley. However, since it's new, be skeptical. I prefer to apply it in web startup context only.
Similar to Bootstrapping your startup & building it lean: stop wasting time (20)
2. How I ended up here
• Developer for 10 years
• Graduate of Computing Systems
• Running 2 startups, some success
• Bootstrapped, no outside investment
• Actively involved with other startups
• Organiser of StartupMill events
6. People who defined
my thinking
• Eric Ries
• Steve Blank
• Sean Ellis
• Dave McClure
• Look these guys up!
7. Eric Ries
The Lean Startup
• Use of platforms enabled by open
source and free software
• Application of agile development
methodologies
• Customer-centric rapid iteration
8. Minimum Viable Product
• Version of a new product which
allows you to collect the maximum
amount of validated learning about
customers with the least effort
• Avoid building products nobody
wants
• Probably much more minimum than
you think
9. Eric Ries
The Lean Startup
• The “pivot”
• Looking back at the beginnings of
successful companies shows they
often started as a different idea
• Many examples: PayPal, Flickr, ...
17. Steve Blank
Customer Development
• http://bit.ly/FourSteps
• http://custdev.com
18. Sean Ellis
Product/Market Fit
• Comparing results across over 100 startups,
those that struggle have not reached
“Product/Market Fit”
• Sean’s metric: ask existing users how they
would feel if they could no longer use the
product. 40% very disappointed = P/M Fit
• Engage existing and target users to learn
how to make your product a “must have”
23. Dave McClure
Pirate Metrics
• More from Dave McClure:
• http://500hats.typepad.com/
24. Learning
• Embrace change, avoid assumptions
• “Pivot” & iterate through feedback loop (Eric
Ries)
• “Get out of the building” (Steve Blank)
• Strive for Product/Market Fit first (Sean
Ellis)
• Use metrics, not opinions (Dave McClure)
29. Split tests
• Test a change against an existing feature
• For example, a new landing page versus the
old one
• Show 50% of people the old one and 50% of
people the new one, and test the metrics to
decide which is better
30. Continuous
deployment
• The time taken for code to be committed to
the repository to it being live on the
production server is less than 20 minutes
• Code is passed through tests in order to
determine whether it should go live
31. How I see lean, and
ways to bootstrap
• Stop wasting time
• Activities aren’t always wrong, just
often timed wrong
• Just do it, there are too many
reasons not to start
32. Lean & bootstrapping:
my experiences
• 2 things which worked for me
• 2 things I will now always question
• 3 examples of keeping things lean
33. Worked for me:
Open source
• Use a framework, careful with a CMS
• Use a familiar language
• Save learning a new one for a side
project which isn’t a business
• Use other people’s code
34. Worked for me:
3rd party services
• It makes no sense to do non-core activities
• Email - sendgrid, mailchimp, ...
• Deployment - beanstalk, github, ...
• Metrics - mixpanel, KISSmetrics, ...
• Feedback - uservoice, GetSatisfaction, ...
• Hosting - AWS, Rackspace, Heroku, ...
35. I will always question:
delaying a launch
• I didn’t think I was ready to launch OnePage
or Buffer when I did
• OnePage - 4 months
• Buffer - 7 weeks
• “be notified when we’re ready” works well
• Users are very forgiving
• Question every feature
36. I’ll always question:
“closed beta”
• “closed beta” for far too long with OnePage
• No closed beta for Buffer
• Use it only when it makes sense
• You have people desperate to see what
you built next
• You have a very clever social hook
37. Keeping things lean:
Launching incrementally
• Start small, measure throughout
• Example: Buffer
• Started with “coming soon” page
• Added full landing page, no other pages
• Then added pricing page, still no app
• Finally added the app
38. Keeping things lean:
No fancy signup process
• Buffer has no signup process yet
• Launching it without was scary
• Pleasantly surprised with outcome
• Better to launch, measure conversions and
then build a better signup process
39. Keeping things lean:
Integrating PayPal
• PayPal has a feature to allow you to
automatically switch a user’s account level
in your app when they make a payment
• Maybe considered necessary, I launched
without implementing it
• Better to spend the time getting the first
customer
40. Act tomorrow:
Starting from scratch
• Keep your MVP minimal
• Don’t get carried away with code
• Measure before you build more
• Focus on qualitative feedback
41. Act tomorrow:
Already launched?
• Add in actionable metrics (Dave McClure)
• Lots of traffic? Start split testing
• Check out Optimizely.com