Lean Startup

A Q&A with Product Expert Laura Klein When: Thursday, September 15th at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Featuring: Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know Most companies trying to incorporate Lean Startup into their product development process run into similar issues. There’s the question of where good design, user research, and product management fit into the Build, Measure, Learn loop. There’s the challenge of building something people love while shipping code 50 times a day. How do you build something great today while also planning for what to build tomorrow? And should you focus on user acquisition or making your current users happy? Bring your questions, problems, and frustrations to this webcast with product expert Laura Klein. She’ll help you figure out how to create a user-centered, data-informed product cycle that lets you build, measure, and learn more effectively. Moderated by Phil Dillard, Lean Startup Co. Faculty

In 2010, Farmgirl Flowers’ Christina Stembel quit her gig at Stanford to launch a startup aimed at personalizing the cookie-cutter flower delivery industry. Her locally-sourced, artistically arranged, and totally gorgeous bouquets took off with a customer base craving naturally vibrant flowers. Now Christina is a successful founder who has grown her business from a bike-delivery service in San Francisco to a national destination for on-demand bouquets picked from American farms. Christina is one of two female founders we’ll be chatting with in our next Lean Startup webcast focusing on the specific strategies of next level CEOs. Our other guest on Aug. 31st is Mamie Kanfer Stewart, who is doing the brave work of killing off unproductive meetings through her company Meeteor, which helps organizations use meetings to drive productivity and collaboration rather than being massive time and soul-sucks. The two founders will talk with Lean Startup expert Aubrey Smith about the companies they’re building and the Le

On July 22nd, Eric Ries is joined by Geeta Wilson, director of Consumer Experience at Humana, to discuss Lean Startup in the health and wellness industry. In this webcast, brought to you in partnership with Humana, Eric and Geeta will talk about the issues facing companies in regulatory environments, and the unique position that leaders must take in order to implement lean startup. They’ll discuss the successes (and struggles) that Humana has faced, as well as challenges in the healthcare industry that other companies can learn from, such as: lean startup to empower different parts of the value chain, innovation in a professional environment, bringing new products to market, and more. The discussion is moderated by Phil Dillard, a lean startup expert and trainer. Presented by Humana.

Founder of startup Meeteor shares her pivot story, discusses first hires, talks features, customers, pricing, product cycle, customer feedback, and shares her most important Lean Startup takeaways. Meeteor's web and mobile apps help you spend less time in unproductive meetings and more time moving work forward. http://www.meeteor.com/ Mamie Kanfer Stewart can be reached on Twitter @mamieks Follow Meeteor @meeteorHQ Heather McGough can be reached on Twitter @UrbanitySF Follow Lean Startup Co. @leanstartup

You’ve probably “gotten outside the building” and talked to customers. You’ve identified problems that need solving, and maybe even built a Minimum Viable Product. But how do you tell whether your idea represents a viable business? In this webcast, Ash Maurya, author of Running Lean and creator of the Lean Canvas, shares techniques for ballparking and measuring the output of a working business model using a handful of key metrics. Watch the webcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHXqMjOQ6Gw

Why is finding Product-Market Fit so overwhelming? Because the tools available today leave us with more questions than answers. In this hands-on, online workshop, Justin won’t give you more theory about why Product-Market Fit is important – he’ll show you how to find it. In this preview of the workshop he’s running during this year’s Lean Startup Week, Justin will shift the way you think about Product-Market Fit from testing an overwhelming set of assumptions, to running an optimized set of just 5 experiments. You’ll leave this workshop knowing: The 5 experiments you need to find Product-Market Fit Which experiment your startup needs to run next How to run that experiment Watch the video webcast here: https://youtu.be/FizgHbhNkDM

Startup Story: Discussing the genesis of Daybreaker and General Assembly with Matt Brimer Back in 2013, Matt Brimer decided to try an experiment. He wanted to find out if people would show up for an early morning dance party in the middle of the week, before work. And they did. 150 people bought tickets to the first event, and the community grew at a rapid pace. Daybreaker now gets 500+ people at each event and has spread to cities around the world. The concept for Daybreaker replicated the genesis of General Assembly, which also began as a social experiment. Brimer and three friends wanted to create a place where people could come together for entrepreneurship, collaboration, and learning. Since its inception in 2011, General Assembly (GA) has turned into a global education company that offers classes and workshops focused on in-demand skills, like technology, design, and business, that helps its students get jobs and entrepreneurs start businesses. In this Lean Startup webcast, we’ll talk to Matt about h

Jeff Gothelf, organizational designer and co-author of the best-selling Lean UX and the forthcoming book Sense and Respond, joined us on for a conversation about leveraging technology to improve customer communication. As consumers come to expect 24/7 responses from businesses, the companies that embrace continuous communication with customers gain a competitive edge. Jeff will discuss his insights on the value of platforms that enable real-time responses. He’ll also explain why management should support cross-functional development between product strategy, development, and design teams. View the webcast here: https://youtu.be/NTnrdMcrEdw

Hear an uncut interview with Garrett Dunham of Singularity University as he's interviewed by Heather McGough of Lean Startup Company. Dunham shares stories from his diverse professional background, talks experimentation, failure, and about what enterprise organizations and startups really need to know about how to work together. Garrett Dunham can be reached on Twitter @GarrettDunham Heather McGough can be reached on Twitter @UrbanitySF Follow Lean Startup Co. @leanstartup

What happens when one of the most renowned startup accelerators in the world infuses Lean Startup methodology? Zach Nies, Managing Director at Techstars Boulder program http://www.techstars.com/programs/boulder-program/, joins Heather McGough of Lean Startup Company to discuss how they're helping entrepreneurs, use Lean Startup thinking to overcome challenges. Zach shares what techniques large organizations can learn from an accelerator and more. Zach Nies can be reached on Twitter @zachnies Heather McGough can be reached on Twitter @UrbanitySF Follow Lean Startup Co. @leanstartup

Ahead of his talk at The Lean Startup Conference, Tom Nguyen chats with us about the lessons he learned introducing Lean Startup to create one of Adobe’s most successful mobile apps, Adobe Voice. It was also named by Apple as one of the best apps of the year. We’ll chat with Tom about how empathetic design, radical simplicity, and iteration will help you build products that bring people joy. View the live webcast here: http://leanstartup.co/webcasts/

Listen to the co-founder of Udemy and advisor for Lyft discuss his newest startup called Sprig. Gagan Biyani joins Heather McGough of Lean Startup Company to discuss finding his target market, challenges faced while scaling quickly, continuous product improvement, and more. Social: Gagan Biyani can be reached on Twitter @gaganbiyani Heather McGough can be reached on Twitter @UrbanitySF Follow Lean Startup Co. @leanstartup

Published on Oct 12, 2015 The Lean Startup methodology has disrupted businesses everywhere. As a result of a more innovative, entrepreneurial-based economy, business leaders have been forced to take a fresh look at growth opportunities and the type of organization they need to build in order to stay competitive. Born out of the startup culture, Lean Startup provides the pathway to business transformation. So, how can businesses of all sizes apply Lean Startup principles to modernize and foster continuous innovation? In this special event, Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and the Kickstarter-backed Leader’s Guide, sits down with entrepreneur Leslie Bradshaw, Managing Partner of MadebyMany, to discuss next generation leaders, what it really takes to innovate, and how to create a culture that will sustain. The Lean Startup Conference was proud to partner with General Assembly for this broadcast. You can check out GA here: GA Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/gnrlassembly GA Twitter- https://twitter.co

If you thought libraries were going out of style, think again. Turns out, they're harbingers of innovation. Brian Mathews, Associate Dean at Virginia Tech Libraries, joins Heather McGough of Lean Startup Company to discuss the challenges that universities and libraries face as they move into the digital age. Brian shares how he incorporated Lean Startup into VA Tech culture, to develop new products to create a cutting edge experience for his customers -- the students. Topics include: build measure learn, minimum viable product (MVP), pivoting and education Brian Mathews can be reached on Twitter @brianmathews Heather McGough can be reached on Twitter @UrbanitySF Follow Lean Startup Co. @leanstartup

Looking for a Lean Startup practitioner working in a highly-regulated industry? Look no further. Director of innovation at AZ Central Credit Union, Jeff Vietri, is interviewed by Heather McGough of Lean Startup Company. He shares relatable tips, processes, tools and actionable-advice for anyone working in a highly-regulated industry. Topics include executive buy-in, legal, mvp, build measure learn, scaling, and more. Jeff Vietri can be reached on Twitter @jeffvietri Heather McGough can be reached on Twitter @UrbanitySF Follow Lean Startup Co. @leanstartup

Senior Sports Technologist with the US Olympic Committee, Mounir Zok, is interviewed by Heather McGough of Lean Startup Company. Topics include: how to approach developing technology for a human, build measure learn, minimum viable product, how technology is changing sports, and more. Mounir Zok can be reached on Twitter @mounirzok Heather McGough can be reached on Twitter @UrbanitySF Follow Lean Startup Co. @leanstartup

CEO of M34 private investment company, and founding and former lead program director for the National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps program, Errol Arkilic, is interviewed by Heather McGough of Lean Startup Company. He shares how scientists are using technology to get out of the lab and into the marketplace using Lean Startup methods. Errol Arkilic can be reached on Twitter @[heather waiting] Heather McGough can be reached on Twitter @UrbanitySF Follow Lean Startup Co. @leanstartup

Turbocharge Your Path Towards Product/Market Fit When: Thursday, September 10th 11 am PT / 2 pm ET Featuring: Amy Jo Kim It’s easier than ever to create a new, innovative product, game, app or service. But most innovative projects never take off and reach their intended audience. What differentiates the ones that DO? What do teams who create genre-defining hits do differently? In this webcast, Amy Jo Kim, social game designer, entrepreneur, and startup coach gives us a peek into what she’ll be talking about at The Lean Startup Conference. Based on her successful coaching program, she’ll discuss design hacks that can help you find and delight your aspirational audience. In this webcast you’ll learn: How to inject early product design with game design smarts What differentiates genre-defining products Design hacks that will delight your prospects

Leader of GE Culture and co-founder of GE FastWorks, Janice Semper, is interviewed by Heather McGough (@UrbanitySF) of Lean Startup Company. In this podcast, Janice shares how to drive organizational change, the challenges in making a Lean Startup transformation, creating a culture of experimentation in a highly-regulated industry, using Lean Startup in non-tech, what they've learned from startups, and more. General Electric can be reached on Twitter @generalelectric Heather McGough can be reached on Twitter @UrbanitySF Follow Lean Startup Co. @leanstartup

Google's Senior UX Researcher, Tomer Sharon (@tsharon) is interviewed by Heather McGough (@UrbanitySF) of Lean Startup Company. In this podcast, Tomer discusses incorporating Lean Startup methodology into his work, how to create a good user experience, identifying user needs, finding your user research group, what to do with the data, and more. Tomer Sharon can be reached on Twitter @tsharon Heather McGough can be reached on Twitter @UrbanitySF Follow Lean Startup Co. @leanstartup