4. What’s the secret sauce(s)?
Agile Development? -- Kent Beck, Martin Fowler
Customer Development? -- Steve Blank
Lean Startups? -- Eric Ries (new book: The Lean Startup)
5. About Lean Startups
It’s not CAN it be built…but SHOULD it be built.
Create a customer feedback loop:
BUILD => MEASURE => LEARN
Reducing time between pivots = extending the runway.
(source: Eric Ries, http://startuplessonslearned.com )
6. Going lean…
REALLY think about Minimal Viable Product
“Get out of the building”
Learn from customer behavior, not what they say.
Thanks and Good Luck!
Hit me up: brad@W3Portals.com
Notes de l'éditeur
Scientific experiment with a hypothesis. A set of theories you are trying to test, which will help discover the business model.
Agile: proven efficient method to produce software. But only when the problem is known Cus Dev: looks at discover your business model with a customer centric approach Lean Startup: a combo of both that hopes to make a science out of entrepreneurship.
Modern software, anything can be built B-M-L = if we can reduce time between pivots, we can increase chance of success, before money runs out.
Getting real customer feedback is tough. Focus groups don’t work. Validate customer need by making them give up either money or their time.