Rapid Prototyping a Startup - Tip and tricks from Lean Startup applied

1. Rapid Prototyping
Your Startup
Rob Fan @ fbFund
07.15.2009

2. 2 hours of rapid
prototyping creates a
funded company

3. “Rapid prototyping” at
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Problem Solution
*Image borrowed from Eric Ries @ http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com

4. “Rapid prototyping” at
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Does this solve the pain?
Do customer want to pay for this?
Etc.
Scaling
Product
Build first worry about scaling later
Team or
Refactor extensively and heavily for
Company features in use
Problem Solution
*Image borrowed from Eric Ries @ http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com

5. Don’t use nails to hold
together something that only
needs to be held together by
tape

6. Product development effort
should be proportional to the
customer development effort

7. Hierarchical company &
product planning

8. Hierarchical company &
product planning

9. Hierarchical company &
product planning
• Company Vision
• Company Roadmap
• Product Vision
• Product Roadmap
• Release Planning
• Sprint Planning
• Daily Scrum

10. Release on regular
intervals with built-in
feedback loops

11. Release on regular intervals
with built-in feedback loops
• 2 week build cycles
• feedback loops
• retrospective/5 why’s to improve process
• demo to customer dev for product
feedback
• daily scrum for feed on day-to-day
operations

12. Use customer
development to organize
and formalize inputs

13. Identify early-evangelists
to start getting
customer feedback

14. Cheat Sheet

15. Cheat Sheet
• Do not be afraid to fail or make mistakes

16. Cheat Sheet
• Do not be afraid to fail or make mistakes
• Fail fast, learn, and move on

17. Cheat Sheet
• Do not be afraid to fail or make mistakes
• Fail fast, learn, and move on
• Create lots of feedback loops

18. Cheat Sheet
• Do not be afraid to fail or make mistakes
• Fail fast, learn, and move on
• Create lots of feedback loops
• Talk to and listen to your customers

19. Cheat Sheet
• Do not be afraid to fail or make mistakes
• Fail fast, learn, and move on
• Create lots of feedback loops
• Talk to and listen to your customers
• Learn in intervals, NOT in a constant stream

20. Cheat Sheet
• Do not be afraid to fail or make mistakes
• Fail fast, learn, and move on
• Create lots of feedback loops
• Talk to and listen to your customers
• Learn in intervals, NOT in a constant stream
• Learn as much as you can from peers and
advisors

21. Thanks!
Contact: rob@sharethrough.com
http://robfan.com