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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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.
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guerilla marketing for the Software engineering folks
guerilla marketing is great. For a developer to bootstrip it way to sucess. apart from appearence, tone of voice, marketing scripts. Anything else a developer should behave differently?
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Open question: How do I measure customer acquisition for in-bound marketing?
The "funnel" was a customer acquisition concept built around outbound marketing, but it's clear now that customers take a far greater initiative than they used to. McKinsey's Customer Decision Journey outlines exactly why managing customer acquisition with a funnel approach is flawed, but what measurable management techniques have or can replace it? This is an open question - I'd love it if anyone using in-bound marketing could share their approach.
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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.
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Discussion "Atoms are the new bits...." John Maeda
Atoms: Physical Space
Bits: Virtual Space3D printers along with other computer controlled robots have opportunity for us to mash the innovation of the tech entrepreneur with physical retail.
My co-founders and I have experience working with the avant-guard to push the boundaries on where this will go and therefore founding www.fabsie.com in this space.
@fabsie
@jamesmcbennett6 votes -
How can Ireland use its ICT expertise to harness and exploit new global opportunities based on Ireland's significant Ocean Territory?
"how can Ireland use its ICT cluster expertise to harness and exploit new global opportunities based on Ireland's significant Ocean Territory (10X Ireland's landmass). These opportunities fall into new emerging ocean markets such as renewable energy, water and environmental monitoring and into enabling established ocean markets : aquaculture, oil & gas, costal tourism, & shipping & security" Can we use lean methodologies in these expensive ventures?
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"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
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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).
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What do the great thinkers say, using this; http://www.slideshare.net/orangemanta/entrepreneurship-book-flower
conversation on some of the books every entrepreneur should read. And that is not only Eric's book.
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Get your story crisp
No startup makes it without a great story.
Using the super simple techniqe of free site www.makeitcrisp.com your statup story can shine.
With a shiny story you can huild a team, get customers and wow investors.
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Crafting Presentations that Can't fail
If you are an entrepreneur, you know that facing investors and prospects is not easy.
But how do you move beyond clarity and create an experience that systematically persuade and inspire change? Do you have ideas and tips? Let's share!12 votes -
Introduction to Lean & Agile Software Development
What's the product development side of a lean startup? Let's connect the people who are new to Lean & Agile (including practices such as Scrum, XP and Kanban) with some super experienced practitioners!
12 votes -
Raising Funds - What are my options?
I will look at funding options for entrepreneurs, from bootstrapping, to angel funding, to crowd sourcing to VC funding to grant funding and share our personal experience of these options @raomal
16 votes -
Business Model Canvas & the lean canvas. Let's share experiences & what works for you?
I'd like to share experiences around using the business model canvas both the Business Model Innovation & the Lean Canvas as a working tool for brainstorming, exploring and validating different business models, ideas & products. We can share techniques & experiences with the canvases?
@marylcronin17 votes -
Starting up an incubator focussed on food and agriculture
I am working on an idea to start an incubator that is focussed only on food and agriculture. I'm seeing some ag startups starting off, but I can't help but think they could benefit from having easy access to people with experience in the sector (network in the sector and knowledge on agricultural technology). I think that would really help overcome commonplace problems, that would be hurdles to take without access the right sort of sector experience. In other words, a factor that could accelerate customer development.
On the other hand, there is of course the danger of myopia if…
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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.
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'Just Enough' Continuous Design For MVPs
In a world where product development calls for continuous design output, while still being creative, stating focused on the product vision is challenging.
I will share my experiences - the challenges and wins - through stories played out.
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Peer-review - how we've been using this scientific method in entrpreneurship for the past 2 years
Rob and I will describe Braintrust to you, and share how we use fellow founders as a peer-support and advisory group to help spot opportunities fast, and keep our learning on track.
18 votes -
Our most effective customer development questions
I'm happy to share around 20 of my best customer development questions. Let's follow that up with a Post-Up where we all share ours.
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Channel Development
Congratulations. You've used customer development to attain the product/market fit - now what?
Even assuming your awesome product really is as awesome as you think, you are competing for a finite amount of customer dollars, time, and attention. How are you going to break through the clutter to reach your customer, get their attention, and get them to open their wallet?
Unless you’re Facebook, you are going to need channel partners to get your product to market, at lease initially. How do you find a channel partner for your product, and how do you get that channel partner to distribute…
3 votes
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