@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
LEAN 
Simon Jenner 
CEO, Oxygen Accelerator 
@simonjenner
Not Lean 
I think the problem is X 
The solution looks like this: 
A website with social logon 
Location based 
HTML 5 mobile ready front end 
Cloud based, multi continent hosting for resilience 
Ability for users to like each others profiles 
Monetization via adverts 
We can launch in 6-9 months
YOU JUST CREATED A PRODUCT 
THAT NO ONE CAN USE OR WANTS
In the beginning 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
Lean manufacturing 
- Toyota 
2011
How to drive a startup 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
Product Optimization 
Strategy 
Vision 
& Iteration 
Pivot 
True North
STRATEGY IS BASED 
ON ASSUMPTIONS 
Customers will come back to the app daily 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
Customers can be acquired for $1 
Customers will use a mobile app 
Each customer will invite 0.5 other customers 
Customers wants to do X We can build it in 3-months 
Advertisers will pay $3 per customer 
There are 100,000 early adopters 
We will attract customers via social media
LEAP of FAITHs 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
Some assumptions are Leaps of Faith 
iPod 
-People want to listen to music on the move 
-People will pay for music
KEY ASSUMPTION 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
Value creation 
Growth
BUILD, MEASURE, 
LEARN 
IDEAS 
LEARN BUILD 
DATA PRODUCT 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
MEASURE
BUILD 
Build a key assumptions solving 
Minimum 
Viable 
Product (MVP) 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com
MEASURE 
Must be real data 
What to measure – everything 
AARRR – Pirate metrics 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com
LEARN 
Test data with customers 
Must impact business results 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com
CYCLE FAST 
IDEAS 
LEARN BUILD 
DATA PRODUCT 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
MEASURE
PIVOT or 
PERSEVERE 
Get enough data then make 
Data based decisions 
Customer based decisions 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com
PIVOTS 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
- Zoom in pivot –more niche 
- Zoom out pivot – less niche 
- Customer segment pivot 
- Customer need pivot 
- Technology pivot 
- Business model pivot 
- Channel pivot
PIVOT 
sortedlocal.com 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
An unskilled tasks market place 
Assumptions 
-People wanted unskilled tasks doing (customers) 
-People wanted unskilled per hour work (sorters) 
-Attracting sorters was going to be difficult 
-Customers will want to use mobile
PIVOT 
sortedlocal.com 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
An unskilled tasks market place 
MVP 
-Customer task led mobile app 
- Customer creates profile & then task “I need a cleaner on 
Friday at 4pm to clean my flat” 
- Sorters respond via messaging system saying they will do it 
& their price per hour 
- Customer selects a Sorter & pays
PIVOT 
Data 1st Month 
-1st task posted was an advert not a task 
-600 Sorters signed up 
-20 Customers signed up 
-60% bounce rate on website 
-Zero tasks completed 
-Customers saying to many responses to task, takes to long to 
message each sorter, trust issues with sorters 
sortedlocal.com 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
An unskilled tasks market place
PIVOT 
sortedlocal.com 
Pivot – Live for 2 weeks 
-Sorter led task market place 
-Each sorter has a profile 
-Customer searches by task & location (i.e. cleaning) 
-Customer selects Sorter from a list of profiles 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
An unskilled tasks market place
PIVOT 
sortedlocal.com 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
An unskilled tasks market place 
Data – 2 weeks old 
-2000 customers signed up 
-31 tasks posted 
-5% bounce rate on website 
-Zero tasks completed (via site) 
-Transactions are being taken off-line 
-150+ clicks on Book now button on Sorter profile
GROWTH ENGINES 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
-Sticky Engine 
-Viral Engine 
-Paid Engine
LAUNCH 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com
ASSUMPTION CANVAS 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
Assumptions 
Tests (Build)
BUILD, MEASURE, 
LEARN CANVAS 
Build Measure Learn 
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
Planned Actual
@oxygenaccel 
www.oxygenaccelerator.com 
CONTACT 
Simon Jenner 
simon@oxygenaccelerator.com 
@simonjenner

Oxygen lean methodology

  • 1.
    @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com LEAN Simon Jenner CEO, Oxygen Accelerator @simonjenner
  • 2.
    Not Lean Ithink the problem is X The solution looks like this: A website with social logon Location based HTML 5 mobile ready front end Cloud based, multi continent hosting for resilience Ability for users to like each others profiles Monetization via adverts We can launch in 6-9 months
  • 3.
    YOU JUST CREATEDA PRODUCT THAT NO ONE CAN USE OR WANTS
  • 4.
    In the beginning @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com Lean manufacturing - Toyota 2011
  • 5.
    How to drivea startup @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com Product Optimization Strategy Vision & Iteration Pivot True North
  • 6.
    STRATEGY IS BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS Customers will come back to the app daily @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com Customers can be acquired for $1 Customers will use a mobile app Each customer will invite 0.5 other customers Customers wants to do X We can build it in 3-months Advertisers will pay $3 per customer There are 100,000 early adopters We will attract customers via social media
  • 7.
    LEAP of FAITHs @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com Some assumptions are Leaps of Faith iPod -People want to listen to music on the move -People will pay for music
  • 8.
    KEY ASSUMPTION @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com Value creation Growth
  • 9.
    BUILD, MEASURE, LEARN IDEAS LEARN BUILD DATA PRODUCT @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com MEASURE
  • 10.
    BUILD Build akey assumptions solving Minimum Viable Product (MVP) @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com
  • 11.
    MEASURE Must bereal data What to measure – everything AARRR – Pirate metrics @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com
  • 12.
    LEARN Test datawith customers Must impact business results @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com
  • 13.
    CYCLE FAST IDEAS LEARN BUILD DATA PRODUCT @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com MEASURE
  • 14.
    PIVOT or PERSEVERE Get enough data then make Data based decisions Customer based decisions @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com
  • 15.
    PIVOTS @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com - Zoom in pivot –more niche - Zoom out pivot – less niche - Customer segment pivot - Customer need pivot - Technology pivot - Business model pivot - Channel pivot
  • 16.
    PIVOT sortedlocal.com @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com An unskilled tasks market place Assumptions -People wanted unskilled tasks doing (customers) -People wanted unskilled per hour work (sorters) -Attracting sorters was going to be difficult -Customers will want to use mobile
  • 17.
    PIVOT sortedlocal.com @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com An unskilled tasks market place MVP -Customer task led mobile app - Customer creates profile & then task “I need a cleaner on Friday at 4pm to clean my flat” - Sorters respond via messaging system saying they will do it & their price per hour - Customer selects a Sorter & pays
  • 18.
    PIVOT Data 1stMonth -1st task posted was an advert not a task -600 Sorters signed up -20 Customers signed up -60% bounce rate on website -Zero tasks completed -Customers saying to many responses to task, takes to long to message each sorter, trust issues with sorters sortedlocal.com @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com An unskilled tasks market place
  • 19.
    PIVOT sortedlocal.com Pivot– Live for 2 weeks -Sorter led task market place -Each sorter has a profile -Customer searches by task & location (i.e. cleaning) -Customer selects Sorter from a list of profiles @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com An unskilled tasks market place
  • 20.
    PIVOT sortedlocal.com @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com An unskilled tasks market place Data – 2 weeks old -2000 customers signed up -31 tasks posted -5% bounce rate on website -Zero tasks completed (via site) -Transactions are being taken off-line -150+ clicks on Book now button on Sorter profile
  • 21.
    GROWTH ENGINES @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com -Sticky Engine -Viral Engine -Paid Engine
  • 22.
  • 23.
    ASSUMPTION CANVAS @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com Assumptions Tests (Build)
  • 24.
    BUILD, MEASURE, LEARNCANVAS Build Measure Learn @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com Planned Actual
  • 25.
    @oxygenaccel www.oxygenaccelerator.com CONTACT Simon Jenner simon@oxygenaccelerator.com @simonjenner

Editor's Notes

  • #3 Lets start with a picture which is not lean
  • #5 LEAN startup reduces the input required. It allows you to fail faster having spent less money and wasted less time
  • #9 There are two key assumptions you will have made. One is around the value proposition – your product is wanted by the customer.
  • #12 You must collect hard data (downloads, unique visitors, dwell time, signup rate etc). Use the data to ask intelligent questions of customers for a subjective view on your data – this may answer the why question All data must be put in context of business results – does this data help us prove we can make money out of this
  • #13 You must collect hard data (downloads, unique visitors, dwell time, signup rate etc). Use the data to ask intelligent questions of customers for a subjective view on your data – this may answer the why question All data must be put in context of business results – does this data help us prove we can make money out of this
  • #14 You must collect hard data (downloads, unique visitors, dwell time, signup rate etc). Use the data to ask intelligent questions of customers for a subjective view on your data – this may answer the why question All data must be put in context of business results – does this data help us prove we can make money out of this
  • #15 You must collect hard data (downloads, unique visitors, dwell time, signup rate etc). Use the data to ask intelligent questions of customers for a subjective view on your data – this may answer the why question All data must be put in context of business results – does this data help us prove we can make money out of this
  • #17 You must collect hard data (downloads, unique visitors, dwell time, signup rate etc). Use the data to ask intelligent questions of customers for a subjective view on your data – this may answer the why question All data must be put in context of business results – does this data help us prove we can make money out of this
  • #18 You must collect hard data (downloads, unique visitors, dwell time, signup rate etc). Use the data to ask intelligent questions of customers for a subjective view on your data – this may answer the why question All data must be put in context of business results – does this data help us prove we can make money out of this
  • #19 You must collect hard data (downloads, unique visitors, dwell time, signup rate etc). Use the data to ask intelligent questions of customers for a subjective view on your data – this may answer the why question All data must be put in context of business results – does this data help us prove we can make money out of this
  • #20 You must collect hard data (downloads, unique visitors, dwell time, signup rate etc). Use the data to ask intelligent questions of customers for a subjective view on your data – this may answer the why question All data must be put in context of business results – does this data help us prove we can make money out of this