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The Lean Startup Online Course, with Eric Ries

A 6-Week Course For Enterprise Teams and Individuals

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Featuring exclusive content from The Lean Startup author, Eric Ries, this course is designed for enterprise teams to experience together, but can also be taken by individuals.

Over six weeks, participants will be able to create and execute a plan to validate an entrepreneurial idea through the process of building, measuring, and learning.

This course is intended as an introductory course, so it assumes very little previous knowledge on the part of the participant.

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The Lean Startup Course Content with Eric Ries

30 short modules delivered over 6 weeks | 2h 38m of recorded content + exercises

Introduction

  • Reflect on the last 10 years, and how the lessons of Lean Startup have remained relevant.
  • Define entrepreneurship, and how it can be found anywhere, from a start up in someone’s apartment to a team at the world’s largest corporations.
  • Describe the goals of this program, its focus on validated learning and the build-measure-learn model.Reflect on the last 10 years, and how the lessons of Lean Startup have remained relevant.
  • Define entrepreneurship, and how it can be found anywhere, from a start up in someone’s apartment to a team at the world’s largest corporations.
  • Describe the goals of this program, its focus on validated learning and the build-measure-learn model.

Why Startups Fail

  • Recognize the importance of building the right thing, and how to discover what that right thing is.
  • Define shadow beliefs, and the role they play in startups failing.
  • Identify examples of failure at startups.
  • Identify a project you’ve worked on that failed because you didn’t set out to build the right thing.

Measure

  • Define innovation accounting, and how you can use it to measure progression.
  • Recognize the way that successful startups have used innovation accounting in order to measure their progress.
  • Develop a measurement plan for your MVP.

Build

  • Define minimum viable product (MVP), and why it allows start ups to build and learn quickly.
  • Describe different types of MVPs, and when each one should be used.
  • Recognize the way that successful startups have used MVPs in order to build and learn quickly.
  • Conceptualize an MVP to test an idea you’re working on.

Learn

  • Describe validated learning and specific methods of finding out more about your potential customers.
  • Recognize the way that successful startups have used validated learning in order to form new hypotheses and iterate.
  • Practice applying validated learning to a hypothetical scenario.
  • Deploy a validated learning strategy in order to learn more about your customers and their needs.

Pivot or Persevere

  • Describe the differences between pivoting and persevering, and when each one should be used.
  • Recognize the way that startups have either pivoted or persevered in order to survive and succeed.
  • Decide whether to pivot your idea or persevere.
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How The Course Works

Through daily lessons over the next 6 weeks, you’ll learn about the essential components of the Lean Startup method and how to use them for your own entrepreneurial project.

  • From Monday through Friday, you’ll receive direct messages in your private space to learn and practice (meaning they won’t be shared with your colleagues or anyone within your organization).
  • These messages will include videos alongside specific tasks and resources relevant to that day’s content.
  • Engaging with the content chronologically and taking notes on things that you’ll want to refer to later will help you get the most out of this course. At the end of every module, you’ll have the opportunity to apply your new knowledge and skills to your own entrepreneurial endeavors.

  • Step 1

    Enroll in the course.

  • Step 2

    We’ll send you an email to get started in Microsoft Teams.

  • Step 3

    Learn Lean Startup fundamentals in 6 Weeks or less via Microsoft Teams.

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What You’ll Learn


See Lean Startup in action, witnessing firsthand how it transforms businesses through real-world examples.


Learn the basic principles of Lean Startup, including core concepts and methodologies to revolutionize your approach to innovation.


Sharpen your understanding of Lean Startup principles through interactive quizzes designed to reinforce and solidify your knowledge.


Explore case studies featuring businesses like yours, uncovering how they used Lean Startup for transformative successes and navigating challenges.


Navigate the importance of metrics, learning how to quantify success and validate your efforts with tangible results.


Gain the mindset needed to lead organizational change from “how it’s always been done” to impactful, strategic decision-making.

About Eric Ries

Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Business, published by Crown Business.

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has consulted to new and established companies as well as venture capital firms. In 2010, he was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and is currently an IDEO Fellow. Previously he co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup. In 2007, BusinessWeek named him one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. In 2009, he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership.The Lean Startup methodology has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Inc. (where he appeared on the cover), Wired, Fast Company, and countless blogs. He lives in San Francisco.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Lean Startup Online Course is an interactive, digital course for individuals and enterprise teams working inside large organizations looking to learn the foundations of Lean Startup methodology. Led by the leader of the Lean Startup movement and the author of the book “The Lean Startup”, Eric Ries, Eric has personally taken the most important aspects of this revolutionary technique and condensed it into a single course. By the end of this program, participants will be able to create and execute a plan to validate an entrepreneurial idea through the process of building, measuring, and learning.

The course is delivered through Microsoft Teams featuring small snippets of learning each day for 6 weeks. After you sign up for the course you will receive a confirmation email and direction on next steps. Your receipt will also arrive via email.

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This course is available in all countries or wherever MS Teams is available.

In many cases, this course may be eligible for reimbursement. It’s best to ask if you’re unsure as every employer has different policies and requirements, but you will be emailed a detailed receipt. If additional information is needed, we’re happy to provide.

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