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.
Please comment and discuss. Use votes to register interest so the session host can understand if the topic is interesting to people. (Votes do not get used to choose the session – we’ll do that together at 10am.)
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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?
5 votes -
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 -
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 -
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?
37 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 -
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.
1 vote -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Startup standup comedy
Is anyone funny going to be there? I'd like to hear some startup-specific standup.
5 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 -
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.
6 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 -
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 -
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?
6 votes -
I'm not sure what metrics are the important ones to test
A lot of talk about vanity metrics and why they're bad, but I've noticed it can be tough to choose which numbers to focus on. Maybe we can trade notes on this.
19 votes -
How can I better flush out my Leaps Of Faith?
The more I learn from my customers, the more I uncover assumptions about them that I didn't know I had. I feel this could be sped up - but how?
9 votes
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