You’ve probably “gotten outside the building” and talked to customers. You’ve identified problems that need solving, and maybe even built a Minimum Viable Product. But how do you tell whether your idea represents a viable business? In this webcast, Ash Maurya, author of Running Lean and creator of the Lean Canvas, shares techniques for ballparking and measuring the output of a working business model using a handful of key metrics.
Testing Lean Startup in Education
Slow product cycles, massive bureaucracy, customers with conflicting interests–those are just a few of the challenges facing leaders in the education sector. And none of those conditions would seem to support Lean Startup principles. But…
Leveraging Tech to Improve Customer Communication
Jeff Gothelf, organizational designer and co-author of the best-selling Lean UX and the forthcoming book Sense and Respond, joined us on for a conversation about leveraging technology to improve customer communication. As consumers come to…
How Farmgirl Flowers & Meeteor Launched Their Lean Startups
In 2010, Farmgirl Flowers’ Christina Stembel quit her gig at Stanford to launch a startup aimed at personalizing the cookie-cutter flower delivery industry. Her locally-sourced, artistically arranged, and totally gorgeous bouquets took off with a…