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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Startup 001: Your first experiment</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2013-02-26T09:00:00" datetime="2013-02-26T09:00:00">Tuesday, February 26, 2013 from 9am</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2013-02-26T17:00:00" datetime="2013-02-26T17:00:00">5pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202393529'><span class='fn org p-name'>NedSpace on 5th</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1400 SW 5th, 3rd floor</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97201</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">us</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1400%20SW%205th,%203rd%20floor,%20Portland%20OR%2097201%20us'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <h2>Only 20 spots so sign up today!</h2> <p>Someone get the Fabreeze, because your idea STINKS!</p> <p>A softer way of putting that is your idea has a hole in it somewhere. You should identify the holes in the boat before launching your transatlantic journey.</p> <p>Forget your solution and run your first experiment by talking to customers and validating that they have the problem you think they have.</p> <p>Learn the importance of Customer Development and why talking to customers is step one for any new idea, product, or service. After a brief intro to Lean and my personal story, we will set up your first problem/customer statement and conduct your first experiment using the Validation Board. Part of this class will be "out of the building" as we do in our Lean workshops.</p> <p>We will cover the following in the this session. - Brief into to Lean and why it is valuable - Complete run-through of Validation Board (as this will be the basis of all experiments) - How to turn assumptions into experiments - Types of minimal viable products to build - What features do my customers want (setting up experiments for team) - Customer development tactics and exercises to implement - Case study of real life implementation and business model</p> <hr> <p>About Adam Berk Entrepreneurial Science, Lean Startup Machine</p> <p>I am the Global Director of Entrepreneurial Science at Lean Startup Machine. I have the great pleasure of travelling around the world to teach entrepreneurs about Lean methodologies. I have helped over 100 teams of entrepreneurs in Istanbul, Silicon Valley, NYC, Seattle, Vancouver, Montreal, and at The University of Florida, Microsoft, AOL, NewsInternational, etc.</p> <p>Standing on the shoulders of giants like Eric Ries, Steve Blank, Patrick Vlaskovits and others, we have distilled the Lean methodology into actionable, sequential steps. I really enjoy teaching early stage companies how to identify their riskiest assumptions and test them using our own proprietary tool, the Validation Board. I wish I could have taken this class when I built my first startup, neighborrow.com and I used the methods I teach in my current app for wedding photos - where I validated the solution and had paying customers before I wrote a line of code.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://skl.sh/R9KnDX">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>