The document discusses the evolution of business education and the differences between managing large corporations versus startups. It notes that startups operate in risky environments with limited resources, so techniques used by large companies may not apply. The lean startup methodology emerged from courses on startups and books that focus on validating ideas and pivoting quickly. The document argues that the company discussed should take a lean startup approach, as it has the characteristics of a startup like uncertainty and limited resources. It proposes a LeanAKademy program to help develop and launch products using the lean methodology over two months.

1. Nikos Palavitsinis,Agro-Know

2.  a production practice
that considers the
expenditure of resources
for any goal other than
the creation of value for
the end customer to be
wasteful, and thus a
target for elimination

3.  1884 - First company to be operated by rules
similar to today’s corporations
 Dutch East India Company
 1908 - Harvard Business School was the first
program in the world to offer the Master of
Business Administration degree.

4.  For some 80 years, students were educated
on how to “run” a company
 Marketing, management, logistics, human
resources, finance, etc.
 But for companies that were already big
 What happens with smaller ones?

5.  Start-ups are NOT smaller versions of a
bigger company…
 As such, they should not be trying to create
value with the same techniques or tools
 They operate in a highly risky, ever changing
environment, with limited resources

8.  It all started with a course given by Steven
Blank
 And it evolved into…
 Business Model Generation, Alex Osterwalder
 The Lean Start-up, Eric Ries
 Running Lean, Ash Maurya

10.  A start-up is a human institution designed to
create something new in the face of
uncertainty with limited resources to do so
 Learning does NOT justify failure…
 If you cannot measure it, I don’t care…
 Getting out of the building is good…

11.  AK is a start-up…
 Limited resources – check
 Great uncertainty – check
 Small group of talented humans – check
 We are kind of doing lean already…

12.  Events
 Landing pages
 PAT
 Projects
 Collections
 Trainings
 Etc…

14. Stop Learning, StartThinking!

15.  LeanAKademy – Eight 4-hour meetings in a
two month period, working on Lean…
 You will develop your idea
 Find the problems & test them
 Pivot your idea if needed
 Price them & demo them
 Build a product and launch it