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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Choosing MVPs as a starting point for disruption
At Leancamp, 2 founders from startups in the fashion industry have chosen different starting points for disruption – Andreas from Lookk and Devin from Lyst. It would be great to sit them down together to discuss how they chose their respective MVPs, what works, what doesn't and how they're continuing their search.
17 votes -
Propagation of Innovation
Borrowing from the thinking of OpenIDEO, Seth Godin's Linchpin, Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus, and building on an emerging topic in the advertising industry (google "Propagation Planning"):
How might we propagate innovative thinking and collective contribution to emerging ideas and design challenges? How to initiate and lead these communities? How to engage stakeholders? How to resource the community?
17 votes -
Customer development: interview techniques
Based on a longer talk I gave on this topic, I'll provide some practical advice on how to do interviews with potential users/customers, including tools such as the 'topic map'. I see this session as a short talk. People then break into small groups to brainstorm their top questions/challenges, see if they have suggestions/solutions/ideas. Then we'll share back with the larger group.
14 votes -
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?
5 votes -
On why it failed
Everyone in this group is a speaker -- 3 to 5 minutes a piece, giving a quick "elevator pitch of failure" about what went crucially wrong at a failed company
11 votes -
Lean Marketing for Lean Startups
An interactive discussion on techniques that can be used by lean startups for effective 'lean marketing'. Is there a process can be used to reduce waste on marketing activities that don't work?
78 votes -
How much work is okay to throw away?
Cross-disciplinary opinions from architects, founders, etc.
6 votes -
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?
6 votes -
Customer Discovery Practical
As someone who is embarking upon the customer discovery process for the first time, I would find it extremely valuable to get feedback from others on techniques to increase engagement of the first customer group, and the factors that could you to pivot from your set of business assumptions into a changing your product and business model.
49 votes -
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.
1 vote -
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?
3 votes -
Pivoting - how to take the next best step (from Leancamp London 1)
Knowing when and how to pivot is perhaps one of the most critical skills of a lean startup. Let's discuss how people take on this challenge and the lessons they have learned.
46 votes -
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.
1 vote -
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.
4 votes -
Startup standup comedy
Is anyone funny going to be there? I'd like to hear some startup-specific standup.
5 votes -
Validating your ideas through prototyping
An introduction in the many ways prototyping can be used to validate your ideas. From lo-fi prototyping in paper to hi-fi pixel perfect mockups, this presentation will give you plenty of ideas and resources to start testing your ideas without spending (much) money or being a programer or designer yourself.
15 votes -
Introduction to Lean Startup
Early in the day, let's connect the people who are new to Lean Startup with some experienced practitioners, to help people get a friendly introduction and make the most of Leancamp.
45 votes -
A crash-course into paper prototyping – workshop
The myth that you should limit yourself to digital tools when building digital products is a myth that stills ruins many projects. In this mini-workshop we'll uncover how paper prototyping can be used to get quickly up to speed in exploring and validating ideas.
20 votes -
Examples of creating tons of ideas/prototypes/options across fields
A founder with 100 landing pages or business model canvases? An architect with 200 sketches and 50 models? I want to see at what scale the most prolific prototypers really create, and get their opinions on why it's time well spent.
2 votes -
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.
3 votes
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