I am passionate about helping startups get started.  The best method I’ve seen to get going is to adopt a “culture of experimentation,” and put in to practice Lean Startup and Customer Development principles.

This is the subject of most of my talks and workshops.

Customer Development: Getting out of the Building

The objective for the workshop is to be able to start testing your startup the next day. You will leave the program with specific action items for testing risky elements of your specific business model.

Participants work at:

• Understanding of the proposed business model
• —Documenting core assumptions
• —Assessing and prioritizing risk
• —Developing plan for testing assumptions
• —Developing interviews and aurveys
• Planning the Minimum Viable Product

I use the “Startup Bluebook” methodology, as described in The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development.

Please contact me for more information.

Past Events:

Lean Startup San Diego

Entrepreneur Week, Santiago Chile

Forward Technology Festival, Wisconsin

Kuala Lampur International Venture Capital Symposium

Qualcomm Workshops

Eco-entrepreneurship class at UCSB (June 2011)

Agile Vancouver – Lean Startup in Vancouver, Canada

Momentum Lean Startup Conference in Grand Rapids, MI

Startup Weekend Belgium

Startup Lessons Learned Conference Panel 2010

Columbia-Berkeley MBA Program

Entrepreneurship class at NYU

Rady MBA School

UCSD Entrepreneur Challenge

Caltech

Lean Startup Circle San Diego & Chicago

Lean Startup Machine NYC, Chicago, San Francisco

Boston Lean Startup Circle (July)

Lean Startup Challenge Kickoff (July)

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