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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Workshop/Game: Design the Box
I'd like to host a 'Design the Box'-Workshop:
Design the Box is a useful game to facilitate reflection about a product's vision and how to communicate it in a way the customer understands.
We've played the game a lot with our own products and with products of friends and it helped us a great deal because it forces you to nail down your opinion on certain things
- what's the usp
- what's the vision
- what's the business model
- who's the customer
- …
and helps you to identify aspects of your product where you are uncertain. A great way to brainstorm new…
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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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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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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?
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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…
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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.
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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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Mobile App vs. Responsive Web App?
I'd like to have a session to discuss experiences on how to weight this question:
'I have an idea I want to get out there and test. I need to provide an adequate experience and I need to get it in front of people. Should I build app's for iOS and/or Android; or should I do a responsive web app for starters?' What are the put's and take's of each course of action?9 votes -
Growth Hacking for Startups, the book
Presentation for the book I'm putting together on improving your startup's business metrics: http://growthhackingthebook.com
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Fat End Down
What are the antipatterns to lean? If I'm retrofitting lean practices onto my project, what obvious gotchas should I look out for? It would be useful to hear people's frustrations with applying lean practices, identify the most common problems, and sketch out a map of how to avoid them.
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Structuring partnerships and investments
Traditionally, partnership and investment agreements are based on tenure, roles and investment events, which are, at-best, rough proxies for risk. Considering the phases of Customer Development, could this be changed to better align with the level of risk and the common goal of finding market traction? ie Could vesting schedules and acceleration events also be based on finding product market fit (PMF)? Could this also create a model for founders to plan their hand-off to post-PMF managers, and get suitably awarded?
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Advertising on Facebook
Who's using or experimenting with Facebook for customer acquisition? Let's trade some tips and tricks.
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How can I apply the Business Model Canvas to a professional services business?
Is there anyone attending who has experience of applying the Business Model Canvas to a professional services business?
I would really value your input on how I can use this to go through the options for my business with a view to scaleability and growth.
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How can accelerators and incubators help you maximize the potential of your business idea?
In the beginning everyone does mistakes. It's difficult to launch a new product and a new company and lots of startups died in the first 6 months because they don't have the right knowledge, support, network and tools to launch a business.
So, I would like to ask everyone to share their start-up experiences and I would like to hear your ideas on how accelerators and incubators should work in order to help start-ups maximize their potential since the very beginning.8 votes -
How to stay lean when developing physical products...
We hear a lot about the lean start-up with web products, but how have others used these principles with hardware or consumer products?
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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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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.
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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 reallly know if my business idea will work
This hands on workshop will cover the techniques to design, test and validate the value proposition of your start-up or new business idea.
In this workshop you will learn:
- How to define Early adopters or ideal customers.
- To design a meaningfull value proposition that your clients can't resist to buy.
- How to correctly interview customers to validate business idea (Problem -solution interviews).
- Techniques and inspiring cases to quickly find your early adopters when you go outside the building.
All this process will be guided using the Early Adopter and Value Proposition Canvas: a step by step tool to quickly validate…
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Breaking Silos in Larger Organizations
Larger organizations typically try to implement lean piecemeal, with different silos all trying to rapidly iterate. However, as each silo relies on inputs and outputs from other teams, it quickly becomes apparent that piecemeal lean is waterfall in disguise.
What are some of the ways that corporations can break out of silos? What works? What doesn't?
This will be a roundtable discussion from practitioners in larger corporations implementing lean on a tactical level.
8 votes
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