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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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  1. Metrics Lessons Learned (Looking for a partner for that talk)

    Hey

    i would love to do a talk on metrics in Berlin

    I am thinking about using my previous metrics talk as base:
    http://www.slideshare.net/andreasklinger/metrics-lesson-learned-leancamp-barcelona

    But i would love to partner up for this talk.

    It's more about sharing of lessons learned.

    If you are interested in adding to the talk please let me know
    Also happy to completely pass the talk over and just add a bit.

    best wishes
    Andreas

    4 votes
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  2. Using the Business Model Canvas to keep clear on direction #bmgen

    If you're already familiar with the BMC, I'd like to show you avery quick & simple method I've picked up - that helps keep the myriad of options, opportunities, test and risks under control, and makes the shortest path to validation clearer. If you've ever found yourself combining advice or ideas from multiple sources, or describing a complex vision for your startup that confuses people, this could help.

    This will take about 5 minutes to explain, so I'd like it if we could then open up and share specific stores and tips in navigating the minefield of opportunities in startups.

    5 votes
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  3. Your first 1,000 customers - Thoughts on Traction

    Working with over 100 start-ups and working in 2 start-ups (first one acquired) has thought me a good bit about traction. That is, getting your early users onboard, happy, and engaged and hopefully get them spreading the word for you.

    8 votes
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  4. Do we consider product quality?

    Building the product in right quality - "building quality in" is essential, avoiding big disappointments at the end: failing features, lost transactions, breaking integrations, non-scaling platforms. Apart from continuous delivery, how much effort do you invest into building "clean code" right from the beginning? To which extent do you keep an eye on product quality or quality of service? Which practices do you apply within your product development?

    5 votes
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  5. Co-founder buy-in - problems when only some founders are into Lean

    What do you do when you want to go Lean, Agile, Design-driven, whatever, and your co-founder isn't so keen? Anybody up for sharing their experiences in a round-table discussion?

    6 votes
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  6. Premature Scaling - or: Why we do what we do

    I am considering doing a talk about some of the myths of startups.

    Felt velocity vs real velocity
    Impacts of Launches
    The phases of startups.
    Parallelising of work.
    Being Metrics Driven.
    Co-Founders
    The European way vs the american way
    The worth of money.

    Basically a bunch of stuff i want first time entrepreneurs to know. Stuff i learned the hard way.

    8 votes
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  7. How to get going

    I have an idea, and now I want to go forward with it. What is my first step? How to setup a landing page? What's a low fidelity MVP? Whom to interview? How do I interview and record the data? etc.

    5 votes
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  8. How to lead change

    If successful, the startup has to scale - or to pivot, if the product hypothesis proves wrong. Both, success and failure, require a difficult to lead change that affects the whole company. After a brief introduction to a conceptual framework of change I would like to share stories and insights while playing a card game.

    2 votes
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  9. Batching work

    I'd like to host a roundtable discussion on how we batch work. My feeling is that when it comes to Pomodoros, iterations, flow and batch sizing, knowing when each is appropriate would be useful. I'd love to hear how different people have done this. Who's up for joining me?

    2 votes
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  10. Lean Startup for Hardware ideas

    Suppose you've got a hardware idea? For software, Lean Startup seems so easy. But how can you follow Lean Startup principles for hardware ideas?

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  11. Running the Spirit

    Kicking of an idea usually starts in a highly motivated environment. But when the going gets tough, we tend to focus on the mechanics of our process, trying to meet the target by working even harder. In such situations things like continuous improvement and creative environments tend to taking a back seat.

    What are the tools & techniques we can apply to avoid this trap? What works well? Maybe a chance even trying some things out or generating some new tools?

    3 votes
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  12. Why it’s hard to ‘get out of the building’?; introducing “#MINDSHIFT, personas playing the lean games to innovate!"

    The purpose of a startup is to find a scalable business model (Steve Blank). The purpose to innovate is to create new added value Connecting the dots of lean methods from an interesting discovery by a short intro and discussion.
    Look at http://www.slideshare.net/fritsoukes/short-version-of-mindshift

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  13. Engagement, Retention, and Churn. Getting your first 1K customers on board.

    Based on my learnings both from working with start-ups as an outside consultant and working in two start-ups (first one acquired) this talk will cover the essence of traction. That is, getting your early users onboard, happy, and engaged.

    Des writes regularly on the Intercom blog (http://blog.intercom.io) on the topics of engagement, retention, churn and customer service.

    25 votes
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  14. Getting from concept to revenue in 120 days - how we applied a lean startup approach at Instant Opinion.

    Instant Opinion CEO Aidan Kenny will take you on a run through our first 120 days, how we got from concept to revenue (@instant_opinion) & how we could have done it in 90 days

    12 votes
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  15. "Lean and Venture Capital: Ham and Eggs or Chalk and Cheese?"

    Does Lean mean frugal and bootstrapping? Is there a place for Venture Capital in Lean? Brian Caulfield, Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and Venture Capitalist will discuss this with the group

    22 votes
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  16. What is the role of a Board in a Lean Startup?

    Relook at the role of the Board in early stage technology companies. How should they work ? How do they work ? What should a "lean" Board look like in terms of its composition, its interaction with the executives, its governance role etc?

    9 votes
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  17. Fishbowl: Defining and Measuring Experiments

    At our last company one of the things we felt quite challenged with was actually running structured experiments instead of practicing open ended learning.

    I'd like to learn from others how you've defined experiments, from "Lets get 20 people in customer interviews to commit to paying $20/mo" to "We expect a 30% conversion rate to paid from emailing our signup list" to "Changing the call-to-action will result in 5% more sales", etc.

    I'll also share the Validated Learning Board, a Kan-ban based approach for having an Experiment Dashboard we use at Spark59 (based on LSM's work & others).

    19 votes
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  18. Presenting your business using the business model canvas

    We're starting to see canvases used in presentations on a regular basis, and just like any other visual tool, it can be used well or poorly. I'd love to present a few tips and tricks I've picked up (for 5 minutes) then have a few founders give it a try (1 minute each!) and have a few investors in the room give quick feedback on how to improve our techniques. We'd probably have room for 3-5 pitches, with feedback, so we can improve our techniques together as we go.

    6 votes
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  19. The Buffer Story: 0 to 200k users w/ Lean Marketing @leowid @joelgascoigne

    Leo Widrich & Joel Gascoigne, founders of Buffer, will Skype in to share how they went from idea to paying customer in weeks, and then grew to 200k users in a year. Great guys - they'll share their story and allow us to pick their brains. They always leave Leancampers inspired and with immediate next steps to accelerate their businesses.

    9 votes
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  20. Map you customer value hypothesis using the Customer Value Canvas

    Alexander Osterwalder put out a beta version of the 'Customer Value Canvas' on his blog (http://www.businessmodelalchemist.com/2012/01/the-customer-value-canvas-v-0-8.html). His goal is to have a visual / canvas driven way of mapping the value you're delivering to customers. I've been trying it with some of my ideas and that of others and it gave us some solid insights.

    I'd like to talk about the contents of the canvas in short and then do some different excersises with people in the session.

    18 votes
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