tag:calagator.org,2005:/events/searchCalagator: Events tagged with: customer development2013-06-04T13:35:10-07:00tag:calagator.org,2005:Calagator::Event/12504633422013-01-07T14:29:58-08:002013-01-07T14:29:58-08:00Startup 001: Your first experimentTuesday, February 26, 2013 from 9am-5pm at NedSpace on 5thhttp://calagator.org/events/12504633422013-02-26T09:00:00-08:002013-02-26T17:00:00-08:00<div class="vevent">
<h1 class="summary">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>
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<span class='fn org'>NedSpace on 5th</span>
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<div class="street-address">1400 SW 5th, 3rd floor</div>
<span class="locality">Portland</span>
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<span class="postal-code">97201</span>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p><a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/customer development">customer development</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/lean">lean</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/lean startup">lean startup</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/product">product</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/validation">validation</a></p>
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45.5141 -122.6801tag:calagator.org,2005:Calagator::Event/12504642752013-05-23T22:16:30-07:002013-06-04T13:35:10-07:00NEXT Customer Discovery Program by Portland Startup WeekendWednesday, June 19, 2013 from 6-9pm at NedSpace on 5thhttp://calagator.org/events/12504642752013-06-19T18:00:00-07:002013-06-19T21:00:00-07:00<div class="vevent">
<h1 class="summary">NEXT Customer Discovery Program by Portland Startup Weekend</h1>
<div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2013-06-19T18:00:00" datetime="2013-06-19T18:00:00">Wednesday, June 19, 2013 from 6</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2013-06-19T21:00:00" datetime="2013-06-19T21:00:00">9pm</time></div>
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<span class='fn org'>NedSpace on 5th</span>
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<div class="street-address">1400 SW 5th, 3rd floor</div>
<span class="locality">Portland</span>
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<span class="postal-code">97201</span>
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<p>NEXT is a complete hands-on program for developing and validating your business idea based on a comprehensive curriculum rooted in Steve Blank's Customer Development methodology, built around in-person interactions with potential customers and delivered by our accredited NEXT instructor - Tim Clark.</p>
<p>What you will learn: how to generate assumptions to validate about your assumed customer's needs, motivations and their behaviors; how to find and reach out to people for interviews that match your assumed customer segments; how to define experiments that validate or invalidate assumptions you have about your business model; how to develop your own customer discovery interview plan; how to conduct effective customer discovery interviews; and how to turn customer feedback into real insight.</p>
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<li>Week 1, The Art of Customer Discovery, June 19th 6:00pm to 9:00pm</li>
<li>Week 2, Opportunity Assessment, June 26th 6:00pm to 9:00pm</li>
<li>Week 3, Team Presentations, July 3rd 6:00pm to 9:00pm</li>
<li>Week 4, Team Presentations, July 10th 6:00pm to 9:00pm</li>
<li>Week 5, NEXT Final Presentations, July 17th 6:00pm to 9:00pm</li>
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<p>Grab your co-founders and enroll today!</p>
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<p><a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/NEXT">NEXT</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/customer development">customer development</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/entrepreneur">entrepreneur</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/startup weekend">startup weekend</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/startups">startups</a></p>
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