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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Why startups need content strategy
We're all watching the metrics that matter: acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue. You know the drill.
But how many of us consider that content--the messiest of user experience arts--is critical to the each of those metrics? From the tone of voice of your interface microcopy, to the structure of your online marketing material, to the things your company says on twitter–content is a critical business asset.
And to wrangle content using lean startup principles, we need the discipline of content strategy: how to plan, create, edit, and govern useful, useable content.
The session: a brief intro from me followed…
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In the founders' studio with Joel Gascoigne, founder of Buffer
Joel founded Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) and used Lean Startup to take it from idea to first paying customer in 7 weeks ! And that was part-time bootstrapping!
Joel will be in Hong Kong, but has agreed to Skype in for a session. We'll do the In The Founders' Studio interview format, so everyone can take the role of the interviewer and dig into topics useful to them.
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Freemium & Free To Play: Applying Monetization Through Micropayments
What are the best tactics to apply for your product, service or platform in order to achieve best monetization in a freemium strategy.
Case Scenarios: Instagram, Angry Birds, Evernote & so on..
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Applying Lean Startup principles in practice
The most difficult part of Lean seems to be applying it in practice - especially to overcome our own inherent focus & bias, and focus on running experiments in an effective manner.
How can we best improve our processes? Should we work with an external advisor, team up with another startup and do frequent meetings? Are tools like Lean Launchlab, Lean Canvas & co useful for this purpose?
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Invitation to the test- & hypothesis-driven: What to test and how to test it. HDD meets TDD?
Hypothesis-driven approaches help with focusing on the right unknowns from a business context, while keeping your eyes open to new opportunities. Test-driven development – write the test first, then the code to pass it – is being used to greater and greater success in software.
From an entrepreneurial standpoint it seems that hypotheses can help us choose better things to test, while the world of TDD has tried-and-true approaches to managing those tests.
What can each of these approaches gain from the other?
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How to observe and learn from customers in their environments using Diary Studies
Used in educational, psychology and design fields, diary studies are effective ways to get under the skin of potential customers, and gain insights about their problems and ideas of how to solve them.
This is a method of applying the "Genchi Genbutsu" (Toyota way) and Steve Blank's "Get out of the building", as covered in the Lean Startup book.
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How can I apply the Business Model Canvas to a professional services business?
Is there anyone attending who has experience of applying the Business Model Canvas to a professional services business?
I would really value your input on how I can use this to go through the options for my business with a view to scaleability and growth.
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The Skills Pie - a simple tool for assessing what skills you need in a hire or co-founder
At the Balanced Team conference in SF in fall 2011, Moses Hohman gave this great talk (http://www.slideshare.net/balancedteam/06-sat-moses-hohman-balanced-team-conference-talk). We have iterated his tool - I call it the skills pie - since. I would present the tool, followed by a (small) group discussion/exercise on how to grow your team / find collaborators.
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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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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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How Lean Startup methods can be used for design inspiration
This session explores how to use Lean Startup to improve product development, design, and build better experiences. I'll draw mostly from my experiences working at startups and from my UX role at agencies, and applying it in a lean startup way.
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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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Fishbowl - How To Facilitate "Five Whys"
Let's trade notes on facilitating Five Whys. It's a really useful faciliatation method for root cause analysis in groups, which features in The Lean Startup and Gamestorming.
I've been using it for a while, but still get stuck on things like articulating a question well, or choosing which answers to dig into.
It would be great for novices and experienced facilitators to share challenges and tips.
I need at least one other person experienced with Five Whys to make this happen. Any volunteers?
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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 -
The Way to Discover "Product Market Fit"
How and what method that startups can use to ensure that there is a demand out there to serve. I believe every great idea always have market to serve. But how we can find those potential market?
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Build your reputation, engage the people you need
You can see the opportunities, you've got an idea, but you're currently on the outside of the ecosystem of stakeholders and influencers who can help make something happen.
What is the best approach to putting yourself at the centre of that ecosystem?
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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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Advertising on Facebook
Who's using or experimenting with Facebook for customer acquisition? Let's trade some tips and tricks.
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Business model canvas as a working tool
I'd like to share experiences around using the business model canvas a working tool for brainstorming, exploring and validating different business models (I'll be using it to visualise multiple options we have for the same core idea, and hope it will help us, together with fast-paced cust dev, to make a decision which direction(s) to pursue).
26 votes
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