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The presentation is about minimum viable product, what is it, why is it important and how to build it. In the presentation you can find many ideas that will help you with the build, measure and learn loop. The second part of the presentation is about pivoting. Pivots are fundamental changes in business strategy and very important part of avoiding the big failure without learning or even worse becoming a zombie company.

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Y Combinator is a startup accelerator program that provides funding of $120k to a large number of startups twice a year. Startups move to Silicon Valley for 3 months to work with partners and alumni to build an MVP. On Demo Day, startups present to top investors. YC helps founders for the life of their company. Notable YC graduates include Airbnb, Dropbox, Twitch, and Reddit. Over the past 8 years, YC has funded over 700 startups valued at over $30 billion in total, including over 20 valued over $100 million and 3 over $1 billion.

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Startups don't win because of a great vision, but because of a superior strategy. If you want to have the superior strategy, you must simply have a better customer insight. Customer discovery principles can help you to get real insights about your customers. The first rule is to fall in love with a problem, not your solution or business idea. You must have a clear picture what your product is hired to do. With customer interviews and different types of tests your job is to prove value hypothesis (that people are prepared to pay for your solution). You can write down all your hypotheses on business model canvas, running lean canvas or even in a spreadsheet. Then you have to constantly sketch out alternative business models by asking yourself difficult questions and testing different assumptions. Steps to customer discovery include developing a vision, setting the hypotheses, getting out of the building and performing a reality checks. The best way to start the customer discovery process is with the riskiest assumptions. Important tools that can help you with customer discovery are also segmentation, personas, empathy map and value proposition canvas. After exploiting all the tools you should have a clear picture what are your customer's pains and gains and what are they willing to pay for. When you are doing the customer discovery interviews to get the market insights you have to avoid doing any behavior predictions or being satisfied with compliments, opinions or stalling. What are you looking for is a real commitment from early-evangelists. Remember, wrong assumptions are mother of all fu*ck-ups, and with customer discovery you can make sure you are not building your business based on the wrong assumptions.

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This document provides 6 lessons for startups based on the author's experience. The 3 main points are: 1. Lesson 1 emphasizes that startups are about people, not just business ideas. It takes years of incubation and the right founding team with complementary skills and values to succeed. 2. Lesson 3 stresses the importance of pivoting if a startup fails to gain product/market fit or customer validation within set milestones. Slow failure is worse than failure. 3. Lesson 6 advises that raising venture capital requires understanding the venture capital process and life cycle of typical high-tech companies. It is important to pick smart investors who will provide long-term support.

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This document discusses customer discovery and the lean startup methodology. It begins by explaining why customer discovery is important for lean innovation and avoiding business failures due to a lack of customers rather than inability to build a product. It then outlines the three key phases of customer discovery: 1) determining if the problem being solved is important, 2) identifying existing solutions, and 3) testing what differentiates the proposed solution. Additional sections provide principles of customer discovery, challenges that can be faced, and how to determine if product-market fit has been achieved. The document emphasizes the importance of getting out of the building to talk directly to customers throughout the discovery process.

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This document provides an overview of key metrics and analytics for startups. It discusses the importance of tracking actionable metrics over vanity metrics to drive business decisions. Some key metrics discussed include activation rates, retention, churn, viral coefficient, net promoter score, revenue, and cost of customer acquisition. It also covers different types of metrics relevant for different business models like e-commerce, SaaS, and mobile apps. Cohort analysis and funnel analysis are presented as useful frameworks for analyzing user behavior and engagement over time.

How to Start a Tech Company

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Evolving Web is a Drupal consulting company that was founded in 2007. They specialize in developing and maintaining Drupal modules and implementing large-scale Drupal projects using mature development processes. They also offer Drupal training. Recent projects include work for Travelocity, McGill University, and A&E Television Network. The document provides advice on starting a tech company, including consulting versus product-based businesses, finding co-founders, financing, hiring, open source, best practices, and networking in the tech community.

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The document describes the Boston Product Management Association (BPMA), which has over 5,000 members in the Greater Boston area and is the second largest product management association in the country. It provides resources for product professionals like monthly speaker events, an executive mentorship program, and online content. The BPMA is seeking volunteers to help with event operations, marketing, membership management, sponsorships, programming, web development, staffing, and online content creation. It also provides information about discounted membership for MIT students.

Lean Startup 101

EarthSoft Foundation of Guidance - EFG

Phil Dillard, Black Ant, @PhilD0210 The objective of the Lean Startup 101 training is to introduce the concepts, terminology and approaches — and, to help organizations overcome resistance accepting the new approach so that exploration and learning can begin. This practical, interactive session will provide a solid foundation for advanced sessions, including the Lean Startup 201 & 301. This training is designed for practitioners in both the enterprise and in startups who are relatively new to the Lean Startup approach or who are seeking a quick refresher. Lean Startup 101 is a perfect way to kick off your week of Lean Startup! Thanks to Lean Startup Co.’s law firm, Orrick, for being the sponsor for this track.

Design, Launch and Fundraising

Yoza Aprilio

This document discusses design, launch, and fundraising for startups. It provides information on different levels of tech startup incubators including pre-startup, startup incubator, accelerator, and venture capital. The levels are associated with different typical funding amounts. It also outlines the pillars of fundraising as people, product, market, and scale up. Finally, it lists soft skills important for startups, including pitch, leadership, strategic abilities, partnership, and credibility.

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The document discusses plans to create an "open fund" startup incubator in Greece to address issues with the local startup ecosystem. It notes brainpower and community exist, but funding and advisory support are lacking. The open fund will select top startup teams, provide mentoring and resources over 4 months, and invest 25-35k Euros for 15% equity in each. The goal is to help Greek startups succeed globally by putting all necessary pieces together in one program.

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Stanford University

This document provides an introduction to an advanced entrepreneurship course on customer development and the lean startup methodology. It outlines the course objectives, prerequisites, structure, and key concepts that will be covered, including reducing product/market risk, customer development process of discovery, validation, and creation, and building companies with low costs by designing for learning rather than traditional product development processes. The instructors are introduced as Steve Blank and Eric Ries, pioneers of the lean startup approach.

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