Leancamp - Session Ideas
Entrepreneurs, designers, managers, developers, innovators – how can they help you? Leancamp is all about learning from people from other disciplines and different perspectives. It’s a rare opportunity to raise your current challenges and ideas, so that others can help you through them and contribute their knowledge.
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Advertising on Facebook
Who's using or experimenting with Facebook for customer acquisition? Let's trade some tips and tricks.
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The Local Maxima - aka testing the wrong assumptions
You know when you test a bunch of assumptions only to realise you've had a bigger assumption the whole time? It's a bitter-sweet win, which would be all the sweeter if we could get there faster.
With my last failed startup, I was testing customer acquisition for advertisers, only to realise that problems with on-boarding other key partners, hotels, was going to kill me. With Leancamp, I ran a bunch of tests on the assumption that sponsors were necessary, which affected how I was interpreting the feedback.
I've come up with a few ways to help startups avoid this, which…
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Whether and how joint ventures, partnerships, etc can work for startups.
Founders are always hoping for that "big meeting". Is there any value in spending mental energy trying to make it happen? Can partnerships & JVs deliver value for startups or is that the domain of individual and big companies?
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How much work is okay to throw away?
Cross-disciplinary opinions from architects, founders, etc.
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Removing features and making your users scream!
Narrowing down to the minimal feature set seems quite hard for startups that already have some momentum. We've heard how Farb Nivi cut out half of his features in Grockit as a test, just to find out that nobody cared! But that's a brave thing to do. Anyone else trying this approach?
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Multi-platform products & lean principals
Working in a startup with a small team and attacking any market is challenging enough — but for those really daring and wanting to also launch on multiple platforms can prove even more daunting. It can prove really difficult to apply structured Lean principals. This session will explore how to actually still use Lean Startup principals and making sure to maintain a strong product vision while iterating on product development and building toward a great experience on various platforms.
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How should our approach change if our competition is also Lean?
Most examples of Lean Startup focus on a small, agile company that sets out to disrupt an existing, less manoeuvrable market. How should you adapt your methodology if your competition is also using Lean principles?
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Iteration and the big picture
Sometimes, having short iteration cycles makes it difficult to see the big picture. How could we iterate fast and still have the whole user experience and the big picture in mind?
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Startup standup comedy
Is anyone funny going to be there? I'd like to hear some startup-specific standup.
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On living an entrepreneurial life (without a startup)
As lean startup shifts to become about any innovation, anywhere, can we talk about that? Do you need to be a founder to be entrepreneurial? I suspect not. I'd like to hear about being an entrepreneurial free agent and an intrapreneur.
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European funding for innovation other than typical tech investors
What's the deal with research grants? With government funding? Are there funds certain types of companies can reliably pitch for? What's the dealio?
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Extremely big MVPs
"Minimal" doesn't mean "small", although it's often read in that way. I'd like to hear someone argue about why they chose to make a humongous MVP and why that was prudent given the circumstances.
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Five Whys and Test-driven development
Is anybody using or interested in using Five Whys with any kind of test-driven development? It would be interesting to hear how they fit.
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Experimentation or Play?
Experiments require having a hypothesis to test, but validate your results, whereas play and prototyping can be less structured but can reveal better ways forward. I'd be interested to hear some examples of how both have worked, and what they achieved.
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The past year's state-of-the-art in BMC, custdev, lean startup, design thinking, etc
What's changed since last year? Bring us the leaders to give us a diff.
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Co-founder speed dating
Tell everyone who you are and what you're excited about, followed by chit chat. Give those single founders a chance to get lucky.
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What can Lean Startup tell us about making the transition from breadwinner to business owner/entrepeneur?
As a breadwinner with a family, the transition from freelancer to business owner is challenging. I am challenged by constraints of time (my own) and, therefore, capacity.
I am tackling this by building a learning community (for professional business analysts) where I am not a critical cog by definition.
I would like to explore ideas on what the Lean Startup mindset offers when to overcome these challenges (or turn them into an opportunity!).1 vote
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