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2. A Lean Startup focuses on validating problem/solution fit and product/market fit through frequent experiments and customer feedback before worrying about scale.
3. Key aspects of a Lean Startup include developing falsifiable hypotheses, building dashboards to measure key metrics, conducting regular "lessons learned" style meetings, and using pivots to course correct rather than long-term planning.
Pitch method : SIMAC or persuasive selling formatEloquens
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1- Summarize your Situation;
2- State your Idea;
3- Explain the Mechanism of your idea, how it works;
4- List the Advantages of your idea, its key benefits;
5- Conclude your pitch and define clear next steps.
Introduction to the Lean Canvas as a tool to understand your business. It also gives an overview of the most common risks associated to a business and how to start validating the Idea.
Pitch method : SIMAC or persuasive selling formatEloquens
SIMAC is a pitching method that has proven very successful in commercial and business contexts. The method helps you create a pitch that contains five successive steps :
1- Summarize your Situation;
2- State your Idea;
3- Explain the Mechanism of your idea, how it works;
4- List the Advantages of your idea, its key benefits;
5- Conclude your pitch and define clear next steps.
Introduction to the Lean Canvas as a tool to understand your business. It also gives an overview of the most common risks associated to a business and how to start validating the Idea.
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...Geoff
(www.performancepeople.com.au)
Customer feedback, surveys, application forms, claims, order forms – the better the form the better the response. Here's how to make your forms tell you something valuable about your customers.
If you’re a B2B salesperson, you’ve probably heard about SPIN Sales. It’s one of the oldest, most prominent sales methodologies businesses have at their disposal. This presentation explains briefly what Spin Selling means. If you want to understand it in detail, kinldy check out this: https://bit.ly/SpinSellingBlog
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...Geoff
(www.performancepeople.com.au)
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The SPIN Selling Fieldbook is your guide to the method that has revolutionized big-ticket sales in the United States and globally. It's the method being used by one-half of all Fortune 500 companies to train their sales forces, and here's the interactive, hands-on field book that provides the practical tools you need to put this revolutionary method into action immediately. The SPIN Selling Fieldbook includes:
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-Practical planning suggestions
-Provocative questionnaires
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Workshop innovation management using the lean canvas by Amr NomanAgile ME
The Lean Canvas is a great tool for rapid identification and creation of startups ideas. When it is used in an iterative and incremental approach, the lean canvas becomes an excellent vehicle for innovation management.
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We will get out of the room, find customers everywhere and learn and validate assumptions every 10 minutes!
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This is a digital marketing plan, a 2-hour session in a Digital marketing CIM diploma class. You learn how to;
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Big Data = Big Business Problem. Big Business Problem = Big Business Opportunity. The Cloud Changes the way Customers adopt services and the Channel doesn't provide what the cloud requires (today). 3 things that you can do the accelerate adoption of your Cloud based Business Continuity Services.
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8. Not a better Plan A
But a path to a plan that works.
9. Lean Startup is a rigorous process for iterating
from a Plan A to a plan that works
10. Agenda
1. What is a Lean Startup?
2. What does a Lean Startup look like?
3. How can you use Lean to define and measure
progress?
11. New Idea “Stages of Adoption”
• Ignored
• Misunderstood
• Obvious – now and before
12. We are Lean because…
• we got a great deal on our furniture…
13. We are Lean because…
• we got a great deal on our furniture…
• we surveyed all our customers and found
that…
14. We are Lean because…
• we got a great deal on our furniture…
• we surveyed all our customers and found
that…
• we’ve implemented continuous deployment…
15. A Lean Startup is about speed
Startups that succeed are those that manage to
iterate enough times before running out of
resources.
- Eric Ries
16. A Lean Startup is about focus
Focus on the right actions that are important to
the startup, and ignore the rest.
20. Business Model Canvas (lean edition)
Problem Solution Unique
Value
Proposition
Unfair
Advantage
Customer
Segments
Key
Activity
Channels
Cost Structure Revenue Streams
Top 3 problems Top 3 features
Single, compelling
clear message
that states why
you are different
and worth buying
Can’t be easily
copied or bought
Target customers
Activity that
drives retention/
revenue
Path to
customers
Customer acquisition costs
Distribution costs
Hosting
People, etc.
Revenue model
Life time value
Revenue
Gross margin
21. Business Model Canvas (nonprofit & lean edition)
Problem Solution Unique
Value
Proposition
Competitive
Advantage
Customer
Segments
Key
Activity
Channels
Cost Structure Revenue/Outcome Streams
Top 3 problems
you are trying to
solve
Top 3 features of
your solution
Single, compelling
clear message
that states why
you are different
and worth buying
or investing in
Can’t be easily
copied or bought
Target
customers,
clients, and
stakeholders
served
Activity(ies) that
drives revenue /
success
Path(s) to
reaching/serving
customers
Customer acquisition costs
Distribution costs
Hosting
People, etc.
1. Financial outcomes
• Revenue model
• Lifetime value
• Revenue
• Gross margin
2. Non-financial outcomes
• Social impact
• Mission-related objectives
• Behavior changes
Key Resources & Internal
Alignment
• Degree of board and other critical path stakeholder buy-in
• Physical resources needed
• People resources needed
• Intellectual resources needed
22. Validate Problem / Solution Fit
Do I have a problem worth solving?
Problem/solution
fit
Product/market
fit
Scale
23. Problem/Solution Fit - Lean Canvas
P S UVP UA CS
KA CH
C$ R$
Top 3 problems Top 3 features Single, compelling
clear message
that states why
you are different
and worth buying
Can’t be easily
copied or bought
Target
customers
Activity that
drives retention/
revenue
Path to
customers
Customer acquisition costs
Distribution costs
Hosting
People, etc.
Revenue model
Life time value
Revenue
Gross margin
24. Achieve Product / Market Fit
Have I built something people want?
Problem/solution
fit
Product/market
fit
Scale
25. Product development gets in the way of learning
Very little learning
Requirements Development QA Release
Some learning
Most learning happens
here
26. Involve customers throughout product dev
Requirements Continuous
Deployment
Release
Customer
Validation
Customer
Discovery
27. Product/Market Fit - Lean Canvas
P S UVP UA CS
KA CH
C$ R$
Top 3 problems Top 3 features Single,
compelling clear
message that
states why you
are different and
worth buying
Can’t be easily
copied or bought
Target customers
Activity that
drives revenue/
retention
Path to
customers
Customer acquisition costs
Distribution costs
Hosting
People, etc.
Revenue model
Life time value
Revenue
Gross margin
28. Scale - Lean Canvas
P S UVP UA CS
KA CH
C$ R$
Top 3 problems Top 3 features Single, compelling
clear message
that states why
you are different
and worth buying
Can’t be easily
copied / bought
Target customers
Activity that
drives revenue/
retention
Path to
customers
Customer acquisition costs
Distribution costs
Hosting
People, etc.
Revenue model
Life time value
Revenue
Gross margin
29. After Product / Market Fit
Problem/solution
fit
Product/market
fit
Scale
Validated learning
Pivots
Growth
Optimizations
30. Start with what matters
P S UVP UA CS
KA CH
C$ R$
Problem #1
Problem #2
Problem #3
Feature #1
Feature #2
Feature #3
Founders
Marketers
31. But also tackle the riskiest part
P S UVP UA CS
KA CH
C$ R$
Problem #1
Problem #2
Problem #3
Feature #1
Feature #2
Feature #3
Founders
Marketers
Something that
can’t be copied
or bought
Personal
authority
Website
Subscription model: $49 / mo.
32. Formulate falsifiable hypotheses
Leap of Faith: Being known as an “expert” will drive early adopters
Hypothesis: Blog post will drive > 100 early sign-ups
33. Build accessible dashboards
Hypothesis Metrics Week 1 Week 2
Hypothesis Metrics Week 1 Week 2
Hypothesis Metrics Week 1 Week 2
CH
CS
P
Personal authority will drive early adopters
Early adopters will primarily be pre-product/market fit companies
Problem fit
Blog post will drive > 100 early sign-ups Number of teaser 72 20
page sign-ups
Conduct 30-50 customer interviews within Number of customer 5 9
4 weeks interviews
80% of early adopters will be founders Percentage of 4/5 6/9
interviewees that fit this description
80% of early adopters will vote problem Number of must- 3/3 7/9
as must-have have votes from customer interviews
41. You stand to learn the most when the probability
of the expected outcome is 50%; that is, when
you don’t know what to expect.
42. Scale - Lean Canvas
P S UVP UA CS
KA CH
C$ R$
Top 3 problems Top 3 features Single, compelling
clear message
that states why
you are different
and worth buying
Can’t be easily
copied / bought
Target customers
Activity that
drives revenue/
retention
Path to
customers
Customer acquisition costs
Distribution costs
Hosting
People, etc.
Revenue model
Life time value
Revenue
Gross margin
43. While revenue is the first form of validation,
retention is the ultimate form of validation
44. Every process works until you add people; key
is balancing your hiring with equal number of
Experimenters Specialists