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Welcome #leanstartup #sllconf Eric Ries (@ericries) http://StartupLessonsLearned.com
Entrepreneurship = Awesome It is the best time in the history of the world to be an entrepreneur Costs are falling in all industries Barriers are being destroyed Disruption and chaos are everywhere
Why build a startup? Only entrepreneurship combines these three elements Change the world Build an organization of lasting value Make customers’ lives better
What is a startup? ,[object Object]
Nothing to do with size of company, sector of the economy, or industry,[object Object]
Traditional management practices fail- “general management” as taught to MBAs ,[object Object]
Not just for “two guys in a garage”,[object Object]
In traditional business, value is created by delivering products or services to customers
In a startup, the product and customer are unknowns
We need a new definition of value for startups:validated learning about customers,[object Object]
There’s much more… Build Faster Unit Tests Usability Tests Continuous Integration Incremental Deployment Free & Open-Source  Components Cloud Computing Cluster Immune System Just-in-time Scalability Refactoring Developer Sandbox Minimum Viable Product Learn Faster Split Tests Customer Interviews Customer Development Five Whys Root Cause Analysis Customer Advisory Board Falsifiable Hypotheses Product Owner Accountability Customer Archetypes Cross-functional Teams Semi-autonomous Teams Smoke Tests Measure Faster Funnel Analysis Cohort Analysis Net Promoter Score Search Engine Marketing Real-Time Alerting Predictive Monitoring Measure Faster Split Tests Clear Product Owner Continuous Deployment Usability Tests Real-time Monitoring Customer Liaison
Myth #1 Myth Lean means cheap. Lean startups try tospend as little money as possible. Truth The Lean Startup method is not about cost,it is about speed.
Myth #2 Myth The Lean Startup is only forWeb 2.0/internet/consumer software companies. Truth The Lean Startup applies to all companies that face uncertainty about what customers will want.

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2010 04 23 startup lessons learned conference welcome slides #sllconf Eric Ries

  • 1. Welcome #leanstartup #sllconf Eric Ries (@ericries) http://StartupLessonsLearned.com
  • 2. Entrepreneurship = Awesome It is the best time in the history of the world to be an entrepreneur Costs are falling in all industries Barriers are being destroyed Disruption and chaos are everywhere
  • 3. Why build a startup? Only entrepreneurship combines these three elements Change the world Build an organization of lasting value Make customers’ lives better
  • 4.
  • 5.
  • 6.
  • 7.
  • 8.
  • 9. In traditional business, value is created by delivering products or services to customers
  • 10. In a startup, the product and customer are unknowns
  • 11.
  • 12. There’s much more… Build Faster Unit Tests Usability Tests Continuous Integration Incremental Deployment Free & Open-Source Components Cloud Computing Cluster Immune System Just-in-time Scalability Refactoring Developer Sandbox Minimum Viable Product Learn Faster Split Tests Customer Interviews Customer Development Five Whys Root Cause Analysis Customer Advisory Board Falsifiable Hypotheses Product Owner Accountability Customer Archetypes Cross-functional Teams Semi-autonomous Teams Smoke Tests Measure Faster Funnel Analysis Cohort Analysis Net Promoter Score Search Engine Marketing Real-Time Alerting Predictive Monitoring Measure Faster Split Tests Clear Product Owner Continuous Deployment Usability Tests Real-time Monitoring Customer Liaison
  • 13.
  • 14. Myth #1 Myth Lean means cheap. Lean startups try tospend as little money as possible. Truth The Lean Startup method is not about cost,it is about speed.
  • 15. Myth #2 Myth The Lean Startup is only forWeb 2.0/internet/consumer software companies. Truth The Lean Startup applies to all companies that face uncertainty about what customers will want.
  • 16. Myth #3 Myth Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. Truth Lean Startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital.
  • 17. Myth #4 Myth Lean Startups replace vision with dataor customer feedback. Truth Lean Startups are driven by a compelling vision, and are rigorous about testing each element of this vision
  • 18. Today What does progress look like in a startup? How do you know it’s time to pivot? What is the minimum viable product? Do Lean Startup methods scale? What is the role of design? How do we reconcile vision and customer data?

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  1. Thank you: sponsors, mentors, volunteers, Charles, David, Erin
  2. Conference structure
  3. Truth: The Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean Startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas. Lean, when used in the context of lean startup, refers to a process of building companies and products using lean manufacturing principles applied to innovation. That process involves rapid hypothesis testing, validated learning about customers, and a disciplined approach to product development.
  4. Truth: The Lean Startup methodology applies to all companies that face uncertainty about what customers will want. This is true regardless of industry or even scale of company: many large companies depend on their ability to create disruptive innovation. Those general managers are entrepreneurs, too. And they can benefit from the speed and discipline of starting with a minimum viable product and then learning and iterating continuously.
  5. Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated. Because lean startups focus on validating their riskiest assumptions first, they sometimes charge money for their product from day one – but not always.
  6. Truth: Lean Startups are driven by a compelling vision, and they are rigorous about testing each element of this vision against reality. They use customer development, split-testing, and actionable analytics as vehicles for learning about how to make their vision successful. But they do not blindly do what customers tell them, nor do they mechanically attempt to optimize numbers. Along the way, they pivot away from the elements of the vision that are delusional and double-down on the elements that show promise.