This document discusses building a minimum viable product (MVP) for startup success. It provides an overview of MVP tools like customer interviews, landing pages, videos, and concierge services that can help validate ideas before fully building products. It emphasizes finding problems worth solving and solutions that resonate with customers through techniques like brainstorming problems, interviewing customers, and demoing solutions before building. The goal is to prioritize speed, excitement, and problem/solution fit over being too minimal in validating startup ideas.
Lean Startup Applied: Building New Products for New MarketsAbby Fichtner
My talk given to the Boston Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) January 2015 Meeting.
Abby Fichtner will share lessons learned from working with hundreds of tech startups for what's involved in building out innovative new products that push the edge on what's possible. Using examples from real startups like Facebook, Dropbox and AirBnB, she'll share lean and agile techniques that have been adapted to building things that nobody has ever built before. Just as important, she'll share tips on how to find your initial users and how to very quickly validate (and iterate on!) your ideas to help you achieve product success.
Strategic Risk Taking: Lessons Learned from EntrepreneursAbby Fichtner
What can we learn from entrepreneurs about how to take strategic risks?
What is it that makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial and what are some of the tools and frameworks that startups use to take the risk of creating things that no one has created before?
Agile Mindset for Your Startup: From Vision to ViabilityAbby Fichtner
This is the presentation Jeffrey Beir & I gave at Harvard Innovation Lab on 7/23/2013.
You’ve got a big idea addressing a huge market opportunity - should be no problem getting financed and building a successful company. But that’s not how real companies get built. In the engineering world, agile has replaced traditional waterfall methodologies because it lowers risk, improves predictability and allows for mid-course correction. The same applies when thinking about how you build your business.
Abby and Jeffrey will present a framework for building your business with an agile mindset and explain why most companies should be built this way...
My presentation from the Engineers 4 Engineers Developer Conference:
How to Build Innovative Technologies
Abby will share lessons learned from working with hundreds of tech startups for what's involved in building out innovative new products that push the edge on what's possible. Using examples from real startups, she'll share lean and agile techniques that have been adapted to building things that nobody has ever built before. Just as important, she'll share tips on how to find your initial users and how to very quickly validate (and iterate on!) your ideas to help you achieve product success.
Lean Startup Applied: Building New Products for New MarketsAbby Fichtner
My talk given to the Boston Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) January 2015 Meeting.
Abby Fichtner will share lessons learned from working with hundreds of tech startups for what's involved in building out innovative new products that push the edge on what's possible. Using examples from real startups like Facebook, Dropbox and AirBnB, she'll share lean and agile techniques that have been adapted to building things that nobody has ever built before. Just as important, she'll share tips on how to find your initial users and how to very quickly validate (and iterate on!) your ideas to help you achieve product success.
Strategic Risk Taking: Lessons Learned from EntrepreneursAbby Fichtner
What can we learn from entrepreneurs about how to take strategic risks?
What is it that makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial and what are some of the tools and frameworks that startups use to take the risk of creating things that no one has created before?
Agile Mindset for Your Startup: From Vision to ViabilityAbby Fichtner
This is the presentation Jeffrey Beir & I gave at Harvard Innovation Lab on 7/23/2013.
You’ve got a big idea addressing a huge market opportunity - should be no problem getting financed and building a successful company. But that’s not how real companies get built. In the engineering world, agile has replaced traditional waterfall methodologies because it lowers risk, improves predictability and allows for mid-course correction. The same applies when thinking about how you build your business.
Abby and Jeffrey will present a framework for building your business with an agile mindset and explain why most companies should be built this way...
My presentation from the Engineers 4 Engineers Developer Conference:
How to Build Innovative Technologies
Abby will share lessons learned from working with hundreds of tech startups for what's involved in building out innovative new products that push the edge on what's possible. Using examples from real startups, she'll share lean and agile techniques that have been adapted to building things that nobody has ever built before. Just as important, she'll share tips on how to find your initial users and how to very quickly validate (and iterate on!) your ideas to help you achieve product success.
Beyond the Startup: Being Lean in Startups & BeyondAbby Fichtner
The thing about startups is that they're in a race. They need to find a way to start bringing in money before they run out of the money they have. This forces them to find ways to operate extremely quickly. They cut all the fat and just focus on what needs to be done. They learn at incredible rates about what will and will not work and use that knowledge to create products that customers will love. As a result, the really good ones are able to beat out larger organizations with many more resources. Imagine if those larger organizations, with so many resources, could operate as lean as a startup?
In this presentation, I share techniques that startups are doing today to be lean and talk about how some of these same principles can be applied within companies of any size.
The opening talk of running remote 2019.
I tried to explain what makes distributed teams and remote work special.
I talk about the most important aspect in remote teams: trust
This presentation is a boiled down version of a workshop i do with startups.
The goal of the workshop is to start with customer interviews and improve or pivot the startup's product.
It is based on the method of customer development by steve blank but focuses mainly on how to do interviews the right way.
Growth Hacking - Case Studies & PrinciplesMatthew Ho
Presentation on Growth Hacking for Sydney SEO meetup. With case studies on airbnb, paypal, reddit, angelleak. Includes key principles of growth hacking.
You Can’t Ship from Your Ivory Tower: Including Developers in the Design Proc...Matt Edwards
If you consider yourself the only designer on your team, why should you expect anyone else to care about design?
In reality, your organization already has some of the best design thinkers you’ll ever meet nearby: your developers. In this talk, we’ll have an honest look at our shared tendency to be “Design Prophets” instead of “Design Facilitators”, and how this tendency can hurt our ultimate goals. We’ll also discuss the concept of a “Design Culture”, and the role of you and your team in building that culture in your organization.
Are you designing your websites with users in mind? Here are slides from my talk about user experience at the Digital Marketing for Business Conference in Raleigh, NC, in May 2015. This contains some high-level concepts to keep in mind as well as practical tips.
Many product people overlook the importance of providing their users with a positive first-time experience—or they just don’t know how. As a result, signups never become customers. But you can improve your onboarding experience and turn signups into sales (we’ll show you how).
In this workshop, you'll learn:
1. Why it's important to provide users with a positive first time experience
2. Common mistakes people make that cause them to lose users in the signup stage
3. Techniques to get users to come back and convert to paying customers
4. How to persuade your team to prioritize user onboarding
Whether you're a technical or non-technical founder you will need to recruit technical talent to help you scale your startup. In this talk, I'll cover strategies for how to attract and close top technical candidates for an early stage startup.
Agile Mumbai 2019 Conference | Right to left | Mike BurrowsAgileNetwork
Session Title : Right to left
Session Overview : What does a Lean-Agile delivery process look like? If you had to describe one, where would you start - "from the left", with a backlog of work to plough through, or "from the right", with needs met by working software? And does the difference in perspective matter?
The difference does indeed matter; we'll see that learning to describe and introduce Agile and its frameworks "from the right" brings considerable benefits. And it's not hard - we can all do it!
See the 500 Startups "Distro Dojo" growth hacking process - tested with dozens of companies worldwide. And find out what makes the perfect growth hacker!
Creating Your MVP (or Startup Validation Hacks)Abby Fichtner
My tech talk at Harvard Innovation Lab.
Do you have an idea for a startup but aren't quite sure where or how to start on your product?
Creating Minimum Viable Products allows you to quickly test out the assumptions you’re making about your business, validate that customers are indeed interested in – and willing to pay for – your solution, and help you to prioritize your product’s features. Hear case studies on what other, successful startups have done and learn a number of MVP tools you can use to quickly get your startup on the path to viability.
FYI - there is video that shows these slides with the audio of my presenting this to UMass Lowell here (presentation starts about 10 minutes in): http://echoess.uml.edu:8080/ess/echo/presentation/c90d10f4-f507-41ae-9fa1-4ce63aa967a0
Beyond the Startup: Being Lean in Startups & BeyondAbby Fichtner
The thing about startups is that they're in a race. They need to find a way to start bringing in money before they run out of the money they have. This forces them to find ways to operate extremely quickly. They cut all the fat and just focus on what needs to be done. They learn at incredible rates about what will and will not work and use that knowledge to create products that customers will love. As a result, the really good ones are able to beat out larger organizations with many more resources. Imagine if those larger organizations, with so many resources, could operate as lean as a startup?
In this presentation, I share techniques that startups are doing today to be lean and talk about how some of these same principles can be applied within companies of any size.
The opening talk of running remote 2019.
I tried to explain what makes distributed teams and remote work special.
I talk about the most important aspect in remote teams: trust
This presentation is a boiled down version of a workshop i do with startups.
The goal of the workshop is to start with customer interviews and improve or pivot the startup's product.
It is based on the method of customer development by steve blank but focuses mainly on how to do interviews the right way.
Growth Hacking - Case Studies & PrinciplesMatthew Ho
Presentation on Growth Hacking for Sydney SEO meetup. With case studies on airbnb, paypal, reddit, angelleak. Includes key principles of growth hacking.
You Can’t Ship from Your Ivory Tower: Including Developers in the Design Proc...Matt Edwards
If you consider yourself the only designer on your team, why should you expect anyone else to care about design?
In reality, your organization already has some of the best design thinkers you’ll ever meet nearby: your developers. In this talk, we’ll have an honest look at our shared tendency to be “Design Prophets” instead of “Design Facilitators”, and how this tendency can hurt our ultimate goals. We’ll also discuss the concept of a “Design Culture”, and the role of you and your team in building that culture in your organization.
Are you designing your websites with users in mind? Here are slides from my talk about user experience at the Digital Marketing for Business Conference in Raleigh, NC, in May 2015. This contains some high-level concepts to keep in mind as well as practical tips.
Many product people overlook the importance of providing their users with a positive first-time experience—or they just don’t know how. As a result, signups never become customers. But you can improve your onboarding experience and turn signups into sales (we’ll show you how).
In this workshop, you'll learn:
1. Why it's important to provide users with a positive first time experience
2. Common mistakes people make that cause them to lose users in the signup stage
3. Techniques to get users to come back and convert to paying customers
4. How to persuade your team to prioritize user onboarding
Whether you're a technical or non-technical founder you will need to recruit technical talent to help you scale your startup. In this talk, I'll cover strategies for how to attract and close top technical candidates for an early stage startup.
Agile Mumbai 2019 Conference | Right to left | Mike BurrowsAgileNetwork
Session Title : Right to left
Session Overview : What does a Lean-Agile delivery process look like? If you had to describe one, where would you start - "from the left", with a backlog of work to plough through, or "from the right", with needs met by working software? And does the difference in perspective matter?
The difference does indeed matter; we'll see that learning to describe and introduce Agile and its frameworks "from the right" brings considerable benefits. And it's not hard - we can all do it!
See the 500 Startups "Distro Dojo" growth hacking process - tested with dozens of companies worldwide. And find out what makes the perfect growth hacker!
Creating Your MVP (or Startup Validation Hacks)Abby Fichtner
My tech talk at Harvard Innovation Lab.
Do you have an idea for a startup but aren't quite sure where or how to start on your product?
Creating Minimum Viable Products allows you to quickly test out the assumptions you’re making about your business, validate that customers are indeed interested in – and willing to pay for – your solution, and help you to prioritize your product’s features. Hear case studies on what other, successful startups have done and learn a number of MVP tools you can use to quickly get your startup on the path to viability.
FYI - there is video that shows these slides with the audio of my presenting this to UMass Lowell here (presentation starts about 10 minutes in): http://echoess.uml.edu:8080/ess/echo/presentation/c90d10f4-f507-41ae-9fa1-4ce63aa967a0
Discovering the Right Product for your StartupAbby Fichtner
How can you make sure that when you DO build it, they WILL come? The truth is, you can't - but there's a lot you can do to greatly improve your odds. In this workshop, which I gave at the Harvard Innovation Lab, I walk you through a framework for identifying the right product to build for the right market.
Includes case studies of what other startups have done and let's you try out techniques yourself to help you craft your own strategy for:
- Finding a problem worth solving
- Deeply understanding your customer
- Finding a solution that resonates
- Knowing what to launch
Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different When You're Changing the World ...Abby Fichtner
I updated my Lean Startup presentation for Agile 2011 to share what is happening in the startup community with the agile community and to show how Lean Startup is pushing Agile to the next level.
Session Description:
How does development look different when you're creating things that no one has ever created before? Lean Startup is about creating from a BIG VISION, where we want to change the world & do something really significant. It combines Agile Development with _Customer_ Development so we can be disciplined about how we create our startups. Learning (rather than working software) becomes our most important measure of progress and agile practices are pushed to the next level. Come get a glimpse of the next level of agile and discover how development looks different when you're changing the world.
No matter the type (corporate or public one) a hackathon is always a great opportunity to showcase your talent and skills: yes, hackathons are also about team spirit, innovation, collaboration and fun but the primary motivation of the typical participant is to win it and capitalize on that (reputation, opportunity, networking).
The competition is tough, the event itself is demanding with several hours or even days of ideation, coding, iterations and in some cases team challenges.
Is a great idea enough to win a hackathon? The short answer is NO.
You also need the right team, working practices, mentality and the right strategy. Consider the following practical hints to … hack the next hackathon.
Madkudu - Product Led Summit - Product Led OnboardingFrancis Brero
As the conversation around product-led growth builds, some interesting trends have started to emerge. Amid all the stories and strategies are some frequently repeated myths about product-led onboarding and what it means in a product-led go-to-market strategy.
So I’d like to debunk 3 common product-led onboarding myths—namely, the idea that you don’t need a sales team, that conversion is a linear process, and that people truly want to serve themselves.
Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different When You're Changing the WorldAbby Fichtner
How does development look different at a startup where learning (rather than working software) is our most important measure of progress?
Lean Startup is about creating companies with a BIG VISION, where we want to change the world and do something really significant. It's a methodology developed by Eric Ries to combine Agile Development with Customer Development so that we can be disciplined about how we create our startups. Come learn the concepts behind Lean Startup and discover how development looks different when you're creating things that nobody else done before.
[Slides from my Beantown .NET Presentation (April 7, 2011)]
The question today isn't : Can we build this? - but should we build this?Frederik Vannieuwenhuyse
Summary: There are lots of reasons why products fail, but the number one reason remains the fact that we simply build something nobody wants.
Learning Objectives:
"Are we building the right thing? Our end-users can tell if we are building the “right” thing. But sometimes they do not know either. We are dealing with “know unknowns” and “unknown unknowns”.
The Factory Hackathon: Manufacturing Innovation - Dozuki Workshop SeriesDozuki Software
Watch the full presentation: http://www.dozuki.com/resources/register-for-hacking-your-factory
Guest Brian Buss—VP of CloudQMS—highlights how modern manufacturers can find the best innovation right on their factory floor.
From saving money to engaging employees, improvements don't come from new things—they come from new ideas.
This workshop will cover:
- How to hack your factory floor to see drastic improvements
- Understanding the Internet of Things (IoT)—and what to do with it
- Reusing the tools and materials you already have
- Saving money with manufacturing hackathons
- ... and more
Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different at a StartupAbby Fichtner
How does development look different at a startup where learning (rather than working software) is our most important measure of progress?
Lean Startup is about creating companies with a BIG VISION, where we want to change the world and do something really significant. It's a methodology developed by Eric Ries to combine Agile Development with Customer Development so that we can be disciplined about how we create our startups. Come learn the concepts behind Lean Startup and discover how development looks different when you're creating things that nobody else done before.
[Slides from my ScrumClub Presentation (December 9, 2010)]
This slide deck goes into detail about the main concepts in Hyperledger Fabric - peers, orderer, certificate authority, and channels. We talk about chaincode, and go into details about modeling a network which involves putting cars on an auction. I end with a demo of the IBM Blockchain Platform, and give you links to get a free 1-month trial of the Starter Plan Blockchain service on the IBM Blockchain Platform.
Presentation from practical workshop on growth hacking by Dmytro Voloshyn from http://preply.com - https://www.facebook.com/events/1584479925126215/
In presentation one can find practical growth hacking strategies and tactics for the following channels :
- SEO
- EMAIL
- PPC
- Viral
- API integrations
- Guerilla marketing
2015 trends. No bull*it, only practice. Real life cases.
My personal blog: http://dmytrovoloshyn.com/
Feel free to follow up.
17. Step #1
Find a
problem
worth solving
Xcelerate - @HackerChick
18. We had an idea for a new product.
We went off & built it, put it on our website.
Xcelerate - @HackerChick
19. We had an idea for a new product.
We went off & built it, put it on our website.
not a single person clicked thru
Xcelerate - @HackerChick
20. We had an idea for a new product.
We went off & built it, put it on our website.
not a single person clicked thru
What did we learn
from that?
Xcelerate - @HackerChick
21. We had an idea for a new product.
We went off & built it, put it on our website.
not a single person clicked thru
Was there a faster
way to learn that?
Xcelerate - @HackerChick
35. Know where your
target audience
hangs out
& speak to them in an
authentic way
Xcelerate - @HackerChick @drewhouston, Startup Lessons Learned 2010
36. VC: “There are a million cloud
storage startups!”
Drew: “Do you use any of them?”
VC: “No”
Drew: “…”
Xcelerate - @HackerChick @drewhouston, Startup Lessons Learned 2010
37. Photo Sharing App
Recipe App
Discover Local Events
Group Travel Planning
Facebook for
<happy people/smart kids/psychos/dogs/travel agents/astronauts…>
Xcelerate - @HackerChick
38. Photo Sharing App
Recipe App
Discover Local Events
Group Travel Planning
Facebook for
<happy people/smart kids/psychos/dogs/travel agents/astronauts…>
Xcelerate - @HackerChick
39. [MVP Tool] Business Model Canvas
Xcelerate - @HackerChick http://LeanCanvas.com
40. Brainstorm
Customer Problem
anyone who cooks can’t find recipes
Xcelerate - @HackerChick
41. Brainstorm
Customer Problem
anyone who cooks can’t find recipes
amateur gourmet chefs want to make fabulous food
for friends & family
Xcelerate - @HackerChick
42. Brainstorm
Customer Problem
anyone who cooks can’t find recipes
amateur gourmet chefs want to make fabulous food
for friends & family
dieters need to lose weight
Xcelerate - @HackerChick
43. Brainstorm
Customer Problem
anyone who cooks can’t find recipes
amateur gourmet chefs want to make fabulous food
for friends & family
in college
dieters
^ need to lose weight
Xcelerate - @HackerChick