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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Internal accelerators/innovation - managing the tension betweeen different goals
Lean Startup is about finding points of failure in order to lesrd and adapt. but we're human, so we seek perfection and success. From my experience at a big corporation like Telefonica Digital, founders normally deal with tensions (do things right, be a success, avoid failure...) not only do we find ourselves in "Success Theatre" with ourselves, we find ourselves doing it with our peers, colleages and superiors.
I'd like to share my experience and discuss the different types of pressure we all face in this way. What different pressures do you face? How do you decide between the trade…
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Startup Culture: How to create a good one?
Lots is said & written about the importance of a good company culture & how to create one. Check these posts for example: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/96459/Why-I-Spent-200-Hours-Writing-Culture-Code-Instead-of-Python-Code.aspx or http://boingboing.net/2012/04/22/valve-employee-manual-describe.html or http://joel.is/post/37639846554/the-evolution-of-culture-at-a-startup.
So lets take 30 minutes to share & discuss the challenges and lessons from our own experiences, because I see a lot of startups struggle with this.
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Building an Anti-Fragile startup that leverages contingencies
The concept of Anti-Fragility, or building something that improves when the unexpected or variability is put upon it, has clear connections to starting a company that takes over a market quickly.
One of the core Effectuation principles is Leverage Contingencies.
So - if a founder wants to actively create an Anti-Fragile startup that can pounce on the right growth opportunity when it arises, what does that look like? How do the founders manage their time and resources? How can past examples and tools from Effectuation help?
I'm less familiar with these topics than I'd like to be, but Thomas Blekman,…
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Let's design an Effectuation tool, Founder-Centric style
If anyone has Effectuation experience, I'd love to sit down with you and hack together some new tools.
At Founder-Centric, we've found that taking the big principles of entrepreneurship, and knocking them down to a quick, simple and context-specific tool, helps founders move forward quickly without getting bogged down in complexity.
Doing this in 30 minutes is tough, but worth a punt, I think! Who's in?
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It's your mindset that determines the effectiveness of the tooling
Thanks to Eric Ries, Alexander Osterwalder, Steve Blank and many others we now have a brilliant set of multiple tools that facilitate getting started and even entrepreneurial behavior in a corporate setting.
What I believe is that the entrepreneurial mindset and the way you use the tooling determine the effectiveness of your energy put in your work.
I am willing to share the Effectuation theory and how this applies in practice. If you are unfamiliar with effectuation, please check out www.effectuation.nl and discover what most of us do unconsciously and have never been taught. Become conscious effectuators and effectiveness and…3 votes -
A startup as an Ecosystem of ideas
A startup could be viewed as an ecosystem of ideas.
An idea is a result of a tought process, and developed in an observe, process, build cycle.
Ideas, play a different role in each of the phases of the Learn, Build and Measure Cycle.
I would like to discuss:
- How does this ecosystem of ideas work
- How do you take care of it
- What can we do to improve/enhance the way we work with the ecosystem.joostburger, joostburger.nl
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Defining Lean Marketing and its techniques
As organizer of both Leancamp Rotterdam and Evolv weekend I'm constantly in marketing mode. I'd say 50% of my efforts is making arrangements and the other 50% is spend on marketing, worrying, talking to press, communication and a little branding to get people to know about and join these events.
We already handle as much Lean practices to push out as much of the 'worrying' part as we can, but I've never really dived into the way I actually handle these things. I've learned a lot over the past year and I want to share these learnings with you, and…
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How to implement lean on a daily basis. (Which tools & processes)
There are a lot of tools available and a lot is written about the process of Lean Startup, but only Ash Maurya really proposes a tool to implement it on a daily basis, namely the Lean Stack. I would like to have a discussion how teams implement & internalize lean on a daily basis.
Which tools (BMG canvas vs. Lean Canvas), Artifacts (Experiment Design sheets, Persona's) & Processes (Scrum, Agile, Kanban) do teams use to make Lean work within their teams as effectively as possible.
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Qualitative UX research as Customer Development - How to get to the WHY
We all understand we have to get out of the building. But how, exactly, do you do that? I think here we can learn for the UX field. I'm a UX researcher myself and would like to do a hand-on workshop on how to get from metrics to answering the WHY-question. We'll be using my own Situational Thinking model to learn how to understand the world behind the numbers; the world of the users. Let me know what you think! @Samantha_Hosea
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Searching and facing early adopters for #custdev, an emotional rollercoaster!!
The hardest part of #customer development is the fear of rejection! What is worse the fear of rejection or killing your own baby? It is all about finding customers! Frits Oukes will share some StartupLessonsLearned (#SSL) on #custdev, searching and engaging early adopters
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The Business Model Canvas as an Effectuation tool
They say that startups don't starve - instead we drown with too many options. Yet Effectuation gives us evidence that successful entrepreneurs tend to manage multiple goals and seek new collaborations. I've used the canvas in a unique way to make more explicit goal selection and partnership decisions, and used these techniques in accelerators where the number of options are heavily multiplied.
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What to look for in potential co-founders and new recruits
I would like to start a discussion around the most important attributes to look for in potential co-founders and new recruits. Based on the proposed attributes by Paul Graham: "Determination, Flexibility, Imagination, Naughtiness and Friendship", I want to suggest specific questions to ask during your search to get true answers and therefore build your world class team faster.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Transform established companies with Lean Start-up Methods
Lean is not only for start-ups. How can big companies embrace lean methods to improve and transform?
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Grow a Lean & Agile Organizational Structure
Part of the challenge to design a "human institution to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty" is shaping it's organizational structure. The structure is a critical success factor that limits the organizations output:
"organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations" (Conway's Law)
While the organization can turn out to be an impediment for changing direction, it may also be an asset of its own that outlives pivots.
So how may we grow the organizational structure of a startup, so that it:
- optimizes…
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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-mindshift1 vote -
Real-life example: Customer Development with Design Thinking & Lean Methods
As I finished my study in design thinking and service management, I applied some learned methods to our p2p-Carsharing-Startup autonetzer.de. I want to share my experiences and some principles including metrics applied to autonetzer.de and how we transformed business running more lean. I fokus on customers as I'm also in charge of marketing and customer service.
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Evolutionary managment pivot OR why does lean effect the management?
How do you get a sense of lean thinking to a typical manager? Or even better: How do you transform him into a true lean-thinker? As an entrepreneur you build your company from scratch as well as the organization bahind it and therefore you can build it lean from the very beginning. But maybe you will face “typical” managers, i.e. when talking to investors that have a more traditional mindset. And even worse you'll have to convince them to trust an organisational model that is just the opposite of their's... Thinking of existing companies you have to face the challenge…
9 votes
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