BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20121104T020000 RDATE:20121104T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130107T222958Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130226T170000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130226T090000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130107T222958Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130107T222958Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463342 DESCRIPTION:Only 20 spots so sign up today! \;\n---------------------- ------------------------------ \;\nSomeone get the Fabreeze\, because your idea STINKS! \;\n \;\nA softer way of putting that is your i dea has a hole in it somewhere. You should identify the holes in the boa t before launching your transatlantic journey. \;\n \;\nForget yo ur solution and run your first experiment by talking to customers and va lidating that they have the problem you think they have. \;\n \;\ nLearn the importance of Customer Development and why talking to custome rs is step one for any new idea\, product\, or service. After a brief in tro to Lean and my personal story\, we will set up your first problem/cu stomer 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. \;\n \;\nWe will cover the followi ng in the this session. \;\n- Brief into to Lean and why it is valuab le \;\n- Complete run-through of Validation Board (as this will be th e basis of all experiments) \;\n- How to turn assumptions into experi ments \;\n- Types of minimal viable products to build \;\n- What f eatures do my customers want (setting up experiments for team) \;\n- Customer development tactics and exercises to implement \;\n- Case st udy of real life implementation and business model \;\n \;\n------ -------------------------------------------------- \;\n \;\nAbout Adam Berk \;\nEntrepreneurial Science\, Lean Startup Machine \;\n& #13\;\nI am the Global Director of Entrepreneurial Science at Lean Start up Machine. I have the great pleasure of travelling around the world to teach entrepreneurs about Lean methodologies. I have helped over 100 tea ms of entrepreneurs in Istanbul\, Silicon Valley\, NYC\, Seattle\, Vanco uver\, Montreal\, and at The University of Florida\, Microsoft\, AOL\, N ewsInternational\, etc. \;\n \;\nStanding on the shoulders of gian ts like Eric Ries\, Steve Blank\, Patrick Vlaskovits and others\, we hav e distilled the Lean methodology into actionable\, sequential steps. I r eally enjoy teaching early stage companies how to identify their riskies t assumptions and test them using our own proprietary tool\, the Validat ion Board. I wish I could have taken this class when I built my first st artup\, neighborrow.com and I used the methods I teach in my current app for wedding photos - where I validated the solution and had paying cust omers before I wrote a line of code. \;\n \;\n \;\n\n\nTags: l ean\, lean startup\, product\, customer development\, validation\n\nImpo rted from: http://calagator.org/events/1250463342 URL:http://skl.sh/R9KnDX SUMMARY:Startup 001: Your first experiment LOCATION:NedSpace on 5th: 1400 SW 5th\, 3rd floor\, Portland OR 97201 us SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR