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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Using metrics for actionable decision making
Most tech startups are highly instrumentable. Meaning we can have accurate real-time metrics of many important parts of the business. And we know that you can't apply the Lean Startup way of doing business without such metrics.
Jordi will talk about what to measure in a tech startup, how to implement a metrics into dashboards that leads to actionable decisions. He will talk about metrics within a general startup strategy, metrics for SaaS and for e-commerce.
19 votes -
The Happy Startup Canvas: Why purpose can help you pivot
Agile, customer development and lean startup have given us a great set of tools and methodologies for building innovative products and businesses. However, the process of building a startup still remains complex and unpredictable. We’re having to make key decisions on a regular basis based on a variety of inputs (customer feedback, potential new opportunities, technical road blocks...etc). How do you avoid being pulled from pillar to post while you’re developing your business? Carlos will be talking about how building a “Happy Startup” can help you iterate your way to a product that people love while still being true to…
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Q & A Panel: Lean Startup & Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This panel will discuss how existing organisations, who are executing known business models, can raise the success of corporate innovation and entrepreneurship by applying the disciplines of Lean Startup, Customer Development, and Business Model Generation.
What can these disciplines bring in terms of improved outcomes; what challenges need to be grappled with; what are best practices and the ROI from using these disciplines; and how can Lean Startup reach a tipping point in a crowded field of buzzwords and jargon, and the related fatigue.
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Q & A panel
What do you want to discuss. Customer Development, Metrics, MVPs, Innovation Accounting, BMC?
Your choice
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Pitching your app or startup to the media
A good pitch to the media can be the difference between getting coverage and being completely ignored. How should you approach journalists and what should you say? More importantly, what should you definitely NOT say? Martin Bryant, Editor-in-Chief at The Next Web, explains.
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On The Scientific Method, Startups and Innovation
The lean startup approach to innovation focuses on applying the scientific method to the way startups are built. However, very few founders and innovators have expertise in science or the scientific method. In this talk, I will go over some of the core-principle of the scientific method and how it may be applied to the innovation process. The emphasis will be on the notion that science is a set of fundamental principles, rather than simple tactics such as A/B testing.
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MVPs in Practice
The Minimal Viable Product is one of the best learnings to emerge from Lean Startup movement. To often people treat their MVPs as the first version of their product and feature creep sets in. This talk will cover what an MVP really is and how to apply three methods of learning to keep your MVPs fast, dirty, and informative.
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Lean Viral Video Marketing
Amman is the founder of roundwaves.com which he started with £1k of his student loan. A crazy concept of a business idea based on taking artists from developing countries and creating music with a solution. Such as music to help people sleep, relax, concentrate and even music for dogs.
Now with 2.5 million hits a month and revenue from YouTube, itunes and partnerships. Featured in the WSJ, The Times and Huffington Post.
Amman will share how his journey and experiences on how he built a lean viral business model.
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Its all about the market
Starting in business is difficult. How do you convince the market that you have more than an Idea? How do you identify your market? how do you get into your market?
Using Lean Methodology, getting to the coalface early and applying the principles you learn along the way is an enabler. You build your business's model organically, Identify hidden opportunities and partnerships that grow your Idea into a business.
Lean gets you thinking about everything required to succeed and allows you to fail on your way there!
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Intro to UX and UX for Products
This workshop is an introduction to what UX (User Experience) is and what you can do with it. User Experience takes people as a starting point and advocates to make products for people; products that are easy to use and are useful for the people buying and using it. Whenever we interact with products, be it complicated software or a simple teaspoon, we have a user experience with that product. This workshop will dive into the world of UX and leave you with a basic understanding of how important it is to understand not only products, but also the user…
7 votes -
Intrapreneurs challenge: How to shift the enterprise
The talk will cover the shifts that enterprises need to make in order to apply lean startup and customer development methodologies hence remaining competitive in ‘the new economy’.
The presentation will follow a ‘4 stage innovation funnel’ model (ideation, refinement, scalability, business model innovation), analyzing the chances that need to be made for each stage in part in: KPI, structure, processes and HR/culture.
18 votes -
How to become an informed business
“Data is not information,
information is not knowledge,
knowledge is not understanding,
understanding is not wisdom.”
Clifford StollA business' lifeblood is its data, but collecting data is only the start. Data needs to flow to the teams and individuals who can use it to make good decisions in a timely manner. An informed business is one that has the right data, tools and culture to be able to turn raw data into actionable insights.
I'll talk about the challenges businesses face when using data to help with decision making and how data, experience and intuition need to co-exist to…
13 votes -
Fast learning, slow decisions
With all our customer talkin' and experimentin' we're fast at learning, so much faster than startups from the 90s! But wait - in spite of all that, we still don't adapt that much faster, often because we're still slow at decisions. I'd like us to share our stories of slow decisions, why they were slow and what we can do about them.
9 votes -
Real-time, rolling cohort analysis
Andy Young once showed me a rolling cohort analysis he was using at Group Spaces. There were a few advantages because they were real-time and also linked to acquisition signals. Andy, would be great for you to do a show and tell!
7 votes -
Using Design Thinking for creating products customers want
"Building something nobody wants is the ultimate form of waste.” – Eric Ries
This session in Sofia will start with a short a show and tell type for people who haven't experienced Design Thinking approach showing how to create innovative products so that:
- customers want them
- are ready to pay for
- and are technically feasible... now...
And then we can discuss your experience with Design Thinking and your story e.g. How did you kick start a team? How did you find remote customers to interview? How long did it take you to embrace different idea than your…5 votes -
Design the Startup Accelerator focussed on revenue companies
I think accelerators are good but I see a lack of startups focussing on early revenue. Perhaps there are examples of accelerators aiming for early revenue. I'd like to gather some examples and see if we can brainstorm a different model for accelerators where the incentive lies in making 'revenue' and not three more investment rounds and selling to [insert big internet giant name here]
6 votes -
1 vote
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Fishbowl: KPI & metrics in the search of product/market
Validating ideas, and hypothesis via quantitative analysis of customer behaviour
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Now THAT'S scientific! with Dr. @tendayiviki
With Tendayi Viki in the house, Director Of Entreprise and Lecturer in Social Sciences at University Of Kent in the UK, I want to dig in to learn more about how scientists design experiments. Positive controls, negative controls, peer review, all necessary in the scientific pursuit of facts. What else? How can startups learn from this?
4 votes -
How to manage internal resources in a big a corporation while applying Lean Startup?
Extra resources don't help to be lean when you are planning to build an experiment. Even when resources and team are aloccated, if they are not in constant use they get pulled away.
How do we get the right people working ithe right things at the right time? How do we manage a 50 person team working on 20-30 projects?1 vote
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