Salim Virani, entreprenerd. Creator of Leancamp.
Salim Virani, entreprenerd. Creator of Leancamp.
I ran an experiment to challenge if the Business Model Canvas actually enables founders to communicate their business models more succinctly. At Leancamp Dublin, I hosted 90-second Business Model Canvas pitches to 4 well-respected Venture Capitalists. We asked the VCs … Continue reading
Since I started teaching entrepreneurship, I’ve been trying to instill an iconoclastic attitude in founders. I really want to push them to think for themselves in their own context. But thinking isn’t enough. Looking at my most forward-thinking heroes, they actually … Continue reading
This makes Leancamp work – Leancamp creates bridges from Lean Startup to other disciplines so we all find faster ways to get market traction. The business model innovation and user experience design communities have joined us, and sharing our apparatus and experiences … Continue reading
It used to be SaaS and Freemium, now it’s marketplace and co-creation. Yet the business model itself is usually a key innovation and unhooks the potential of the product. Look at Hail-O, Votizen, Dropbox, Zynga, AirBnB, Kickstarter… For example, last … Continue reading
tl’dr Strategic decisions, even pivots, are messy. The information we collect is messy, and the conclusions are subjective and debatable. In spite of trying to stay focused on information we’ve collected, we weigh in opportunity cost, and also less fashionable … Continue reading
Lately, I’ve been doing one-day workshops, based on the Foundation Skills day at Founder-Centric, with different accelerators around Europe. The goal of this day is to teach the principles behind Lean, Lean Startup and Business Model Generation, with a particular … Continue reading
Since the first Leancamp, it’s been clear it built community. The problem has been that it is more expensive than a Barcamp, so the sponsorship model has been much tougher to make work. The question of what Leancamp was – … Continue reading
Since the beginning of Leancamp, I’ve been looking for a way to make the unconference model financially-independent – with the goal of synthesizing its community values with a commercially-viable way to grow. An interesting problem, because by Lean Startup measures, Leancamp has problem/solution fit – … Continue reading
via vimeo.com A talk I gave at The Hacker News meetup in London, to inspire hackers to hack their business models too. Posted via email from I’m Sal
