Salim Virani, entreprenerd. Creator of Leancamp.
Salim Virani, entreprenerd. Creator of Leancamp.
It’s important for founders to understand the background of Lean Startup, since it helps evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches around it. They often seem incompatible or counter-intuitive, so this history will help you make sense of … Continue reading
Whether it’s negotiation, mediation or even international politics, we know it’s important to first seek to understand the other side. When launching a business, we know it makes sense to seek understanding about our customers needs before trying to change … Continue reading
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
Trevor Owens, founder of Lean Startup Machine, recently wrote a great post where he details 3 methods of customer learning: exploration, pitching and concierge. This is consistent with the principle of Learn, then Confirm, which works beyond entrepreneurship – in science, … Continue reading
As part of our support program for up-and-coming Leancamp organisers, we’ll be sharing our lessons learned from past events. Leancamp, like most startups and non-profits, can’t afford to lose money, so our financial risk needs to carefully managed. Effectuation and … 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
People have this idea that you can or should “invest” in community. But if you dig deeper, do you find anything more? A moral argument that it’s “good” or “aught to” be done? Or a rationale in hard sales – pressing the … Continue reading
If you’ve ever pitched an investor, you know they love trends and growth markets. The cliched question, “is this a billion dollar business?” has merit.You want your company to rise to scale and continue to exploit the nature of the … Continue reading
via skitch.com Thinking about doing some kind of Earlyvangelist t-shirt for swag or fund-raising for Leancamp. What do you think? Worth paying for? Would you wear something like this? (Tell me like it is – I can take the criticism … Continue reading
UPDATE: The Leancamp Barcelona waiting list has opened here: http://register.leanca.mp/leancamp-europe-2011/ Tickets will be available to the waiting list first. My first few days in Barcelona have been great. I can already see how a very unique Leancamp could take shape … Continue reading
