This document summarizes the lean startup methodology for developing and testing new business ideas. It outlines 13 steps: 1) Determine if there is a problem worth solving, 2) Identify who has the problem, 3) Find where those people are, 4) Probe how they respond, 5) Determine if they are desperate for a solution, 6) Make useful connections, 7) Build and test an MVP, 8) Achieve product-market fit, 9) Measure qualitatively and quantitatively, 10) Learn validated lessons, 11) Improve based on learning, 12) Beware of vanity metrics, 13) Pivot or persevere. It encourages entrepreneurs to build, measure, and learn continuously and advises several types
21. Step 10: Learn!
Validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating
progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme
uncertainty.
22. Step 11: Improve !
o Improve the product so that customers can
realize the value proposition
o Use experiments to test the hypothesis that
will improve the metric
23. Step 12: Watch Out!
o Beware of Vanity Metric !
o Tools: Cohort Analysis, A/B testing
26. Types of Pivots
• Zoom-in pivot: what previously was considered a single feature in a
product becomes the whole product.
• Zoom-out pivot: what was considered the whole product becomes a
single feature of a much larger product.
• Customer segment pivot: product solves a real problem, but needs to
be positioned for a more appreciative segment
• Customer need pivot: same customer segment, different problem
• Platform pivot: change from an application to a platform, or vice versa.
• Business architecture pivot: high margin, low volume, or low margin,
high volume
• Engine of growth pivot: Viral, Sticky, Paid
• Technology pivot, Engine of growth pivot, Value capture pivot
28. Principles of Lean Start-up
• Entrepreneurs are everywhere
• Entrepreneurship is Management
• Validated Learning
• Innovation Accounting
• Build-Measure-Learn
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31. What’s next?
• Get the book
• http://theleanstartup.com/
• http://www.leanstartupcircle.com/
• http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/
• Follow on Twitter: @leancircle @leanstartup @ericries
Look for places Early Adopters hang out
Get out of the building
Throw some bone. Are they reacting?
Can your solution make them die for it?
Talk to those desperate ones in person; what do they like about your idea? What do they love changed?
Worried someone will steal your Startup Idea?
Talk to those desperate ones in person; what do they like about your idea? What do they love changed?
Once entrepreneurs embrace validated learning, the development process can shrink substantially. When you focus on figuring the right thing to build-the thing customers want and will pay for-you need not spend months waiting for a product beta launch to change the company's direction. Instead, entrepreneurs can adapt their plans incrementally, inch by inch, minute by minute.
Talk to those desperate ones in person; what do they like about your idea? What do they love changed?
Vanity metrics devolve into what Ries calls “success theater” which is the action of “making people think that you are being successful rather than energy you could put into serving customers.”
Business architecture pivot. Geoffrey Moore, many years ago, observed that there are two major business architectures: high margin, low volume (complex systems model), or low margin, high volume (volume operations model). You can’t do both at the same time.
Value capture pivot. This refers to the monetization or revenue model. Changes to the way a startup captures value can have far-reaching consequences for business, product, and marketing strategies. The “free” model doesn’t capture much value.
You don’t have to work in a garage to be a startup. Definition: a human institution designed to create new products or services under conditions of extreme uncertainty
Startup is an in institution, not just a product, so it requires special management technique geared to the context of extreme uncertainity
Startup exists not just to make stuff, make money or even serve customers. They exist to learn how to build a sustainable business. Learning can be validated scientifically by running frequent experiments that allow enterprenerous to test each element of their vision
Build-measure-learn: fundamental activity of a startup is to turn ideas into products, measure how customers respond and then learn whether to pivot or persevere. How to accelerate that feedback loop
Innovation Accounting: To improve entrepreneurial outcome and hold innovators accountable, we need to focus on the boring stuff; how to measure progress, how to setup milestones and how to prioritize work.