James Jimenez on Exit Strategies for Startups
Recorded webinar: James Jimenez from MNST Company.com presents “Exit Strategies for Startups” to entrepreneurs at the Lean Culture meetup.
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Lean Culture Videos
Rob Fitzpatrick: Five Mistakes Bootstrappers Should Avoid in 2021
Rob Fitzpatrick, author of the Mom Test, offers some evergreen advice on mistakes bootstrappers should avoid in 2021 (especially if they have not made already and won’t see them coming.)
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Mark Stiving on Value Based Pricing and Price Segmentation
Mark Stiving of Impact Pricing gave a great talk on value based pricing and price segmentation at the Aug-26-2020 Lean Culture Online event. Here is a recording of the event and a copy of his slides.
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Jeff Allison: An Executive Briefing on Microservices
Jeff Allison offered an executive briefing on microservices at the SF Bay ACM Meetup on Wed-Aug-19. Here is the video, slides, and notes on the talk.
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Qualitative Research: Problem Exploration for Lean Startups
Key points from Mary Sorber’s presentation on “Qualitative Research: Problem Exploration for Lean Startups” at Lean Culture July-31-2018.
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David Telleen-Lawton on Customer Discovery Meetings at Lean Culture Tue-Jun-26-2018
David Telleen Lawton will offer a detailed briefing on the nuts and bolts of Customer Discovery Meetings from a sales perspective at Lean Culture on Tue-Jun-26-2018.
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Larry Smith: Fail Fast, Fail Often, and Die
Larry Smith is an Economics Professor of Economics at the University of Waterloo who writes and lectures on Entrepreneurship, innovation, and Technology markets. What follows is part of a conversation he had with Alan Quarry in the AQ’s Blog & Grill series of interviews with entrepreneurs. His key point, that he makes in a somewhat cranky fashion, is that technology
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Kent Beck and Don Reinertsen on Value of Storytelling
What follows is an exchange on twitter between Kent Beck and Don Reinertsen on Dec 12-2013 about their experiences as speakers at the Lean Startup Conference 2013 that I thought was worth preserving.
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Video from Lean Innovation 101 Talk at SF Bay ACM Nov-20-2013
Lean innovation models provide a scientific approach for creating and testing a product and developing a new business around it.
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Lisa Solomon: Effective Meetings Choose One of Reaching Understanding, Generating Options, or Making Decisions
Lisa Solomon says that an effective meeting can do one–and only one–of 3 things: build a common understanding, generate option, or make decisions. In this talk on “Designing Time: Make Meaning” she elaborates on this and challenges the person calling the meeting to work backward from the end of the meeting and define: what has
Communicating Complex Concepts in Video: Luxr’s 5 Whys Video
Luxr has produced a clever encapsulation of the 5 Whys methodology, a technique for persistently probing the symptoms to find the root cause of a problem. Compared to several other “5 Whys” videos YouTube steered me to after I viewed this one I was struck by how practical and tactical Luxr’s explanation was. It communicated the
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Mark Stiving: Three Pricing Principles I Confirmed In Las Vegas
Mark Stiving is a serial entrepreneur and a pricing expert. In this video he tells the story of being mistaken for a lost lamb by a shepherdess in Las Vegas after being screwed by a cab driver. He uses her business model to illustrate three important pricing principles: Know Your Value Segment Your Market Offer
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