Based on a talk I gave to the Capital Enterprise stakeholders and members in relation to the Bootstrapping Bootcamp program we're developing and sharing. You can learn more about the program at http://register.leanca.mp/bootstrapping-bootcamp or contact me at http://SaintSal.com/contact To learn more about the new tools and methods entrepreneurs are using to find market traction faster, go to http://leanca.mp

1. Entrepreneurship support
- an entrepreneurs perspective

2. We re all trying to support
entrepreneurs. Let s reconcile our
perspectives and constraints.

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Are we modelling support on quality
control, or quality creation?

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Do we measure
success in startups, or
in entrepreneurs?

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Entrepreneurs search for
a valid business model.

6. Being entrepreneur-centric means accepting the
business model is not yet fixed.
Alex Osterwalder

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Entrepreneurs course
correct over weeks &
days, not months &
years.

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Plans force commitment -
limiting course-correction
opportunities.

9. Applications take time away from validating
business models in the field.

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We accept that business
planning is fluid, so why
evaluate static plans?
Can we qualify entrepreneurs
instead of plans?

11. Yes. If we focus on
enablement, rather than idea
qualification.

12. Quality Control
actually creates barriers.
Application Qualification Support

13. Quality Creation
removes them.
(The Lean Startup adaptation cycle - what
more and more entrepreneurs are doing.)
Eric Ries

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Do our approaches match?

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Plan-centricity leaves
entrepreneurs in the cold.

16. Anything less than a 100% success-rate for plan-based
portfolios means an entrepreneur has wasted their time
executing a plan that you approved.

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We can better identify an
entrepreneur s potential
through their actions, not
their plans...

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We can remove barriers
rather than create them.

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We can t substitute
for the founders
perspective.

20. It s their journey.

21. So let s give them the
tools they need.

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And leave the directions to them.

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Because new methods are empowering
entrepreneurs to find market traction faster.

24. We re working towards the next
evolution in entrepreneurship support.
Join us.
Please get in touch.
Salim Virani
smile@saintsal.com
@SaintSal