Enhance Collaboration With Think-Write-Pair-Share
One facilitation strategy we use for more thoughtful discussions and encourages greater participation and collaboration.
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Paul Orlando – How to Quantify if a Market is Ripe for Your Product
Timing plays a significant role in the success of startups. It’s about recognizing the right moment to launch a product or service that aligns with emerging trends, consumer demand, and market conditions.
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Finding Co-Founders: Recruiting Like-Minded Individuals for Startup Success
When recruiting people for your startup, finding finding co-founders who share your goals and vision is important. The alignment between co-founders is crucial for success, as it helps avoid potential problems that can derail the company.
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From Consulting to Entrepreneurship: How to Successfully Make the Transition
Ihor Bauman shares tips for building a portfolio and generating initial sales – crucial steps in validating and launching your business.
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Entrepreneurship’s Ups and Downs
Michael Risich – Entrepreneur turned technologist, turned technology founder with an exciting journey building a SaaS business scaling to 10M in ARR with an exit to a PE firm!
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Managing the Risk and Uncertainty in Business Decisions with Charlene Deaver-Vazquez
Charlene Deaver-Vazquez presents a new conceptual tool that allows for easy steering to problem areas and rapid decisions without losing sight of the important stuff.
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A Conversation with Mark Tweddle on Imposter Syndrome
Mark Tweddle and I discuss the implications of imposter syndrome, notably when feelings of inadequacy might spur you to improve.
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2023 – This year’s experiment
Every year we design experiments – new things we try. Our 2023 experiment was doing short 2 minute videos – chalk talks. Below is a roundup of some of our favorites.
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Moe Arnaiz: Lessons Learned Bootstrapping eMOBUS and Weeldi
Moe Arnaiz is an outstanding entrepreneurial CEO; he shares two founder stories: the successful sale of eMOBUS and how going through that process helped him navigate his new venture, Weeldi. As a serial entrepreneur, he has shown the ability to take his awareness of industry direction and craft it into a business vision.
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Customer Buying Process: Understand, Believe, Act
A simple but very useful model we like for the customer buying process is “Understand, Believe, Act.” This post explains what it is and how to apply it.
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Clear in Hindsight: April 2022 ended a Minsky boom for startups
A Minsky boom is a period of economic growth characterized by increasing instability and speculation, ending in startup funding constricting.
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Harsh Darji on How to Innovate Using Visual Thinking
Harsh Darji shares some of his drawings and his process of visual thinking. See how visual thinking can help you innovate your business.
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Triage for Managing Interrupts
This is for startup founders. You have a lot on your plate and events and interruptions make it even more interesting.
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Chalk Talk 1-2-4-1
We use a four phase project planning model we call 1-2-4-1 which allocates time to planning, prototyping key challenges, finishing the bulk of the work, and polishing.
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Holly Hester-Reilly: Lean Product Principles in B2B
Holly Hester-Reilly offers a briefing on how to apply continuous product discovery and lean product principles in a B2B environment.
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Chalk Talk: How Buildings Learn
A chalk talk on Stewart Brand’s model for how six layers in a building change at different rates from his book “How Buildings Learn.”
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Chalk Talk: Where is your team in the explore exploit continuum?
Where is your team in the explore exploit continuum? Are you in explore or exploit mode? If you are operating in a new area with high uncertainty then explore mode is the best posture. As you gain clarity you will typically transition to exploit mode.
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John Nash on “Make Something that People Want”
Video and an edited transcript from the “Make Something that People Want”” briefing by John Nash at the Aug-24-2022 Lean Culture meetup.
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Kristin Zhivago: How to put yourself in your customers shoes
Video and transcript from the “How to put yourself in your customers shoes” briefing by Kristin Zhivago at the March 2022 Lean Culture meetup. She highlights the importance of putting yourself in your customers’ shoes in order to develop a more effective marketing strategy and ultimately drive revenue growth.
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Chalk Talk: S-Curve for Technology Investment
A chalk talk on the S-Curve model for Technology Investment. The S-curve was first popularized in “Innovation the Attacker’s Advantage” by Richard Foster.
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