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Lean Start Up Machine in Manila 2014
Sirfaraz Piracha, the Growth Manager, Europe And Asia Lean Startup Machine recently got in touch to encourage us here in Manila to get a move on it and secure those last mile sign-ups required to bring Lean Start Up Machine to Manila this 2014. Check out more about Lean StartUp Machine here.
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Lean StartUp Machine is a workshop that “kicks off with a series of product pitches that help attendees organize into teams. Everyone works on a NEW idea. Each team then develops its problem hypothesis, solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions which are core to the success of the business.”
“Next, each team creates an MVP, or “Minimum Viable Product.” The goal of the MVP test is to “Get Out Of the Building,” speak with real customers and to collect cash or non-cash currency which serves as validation.”
“The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to pivot their solution (and even problem) toward a true customer pain; rather than creating a solution and after-the-fact seeking customers with a problem.”
“The event culminates with each team pitching its new solutions and its experience using the process. In this competition the winning team is not selected based on who has the best idea, but instead on which team honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots.”
Check out the Lean StartUp Machine experience:
Brian Watson – Analyst, Union Square Ventures
Melissa Perri – Project Manager, OpenSky
Source: Lean StartUp Machine
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POSTPONED! LearningOpp: Pitching Your Idea Workshop
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC: On behalf of LSManila community and our partners, we sincerely hope that your family and friends in the Visayas region are safe and sound. In light of the recent calamity, we feel its most appropriate that all resources be directed to ongoing disaster assistance endeavors.
As such the following events for the week have been cancelled:
- LearningOpp: Lean StartUp in Action (Introduction), scheduled to occur on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:00 PM
- LearningOpp: Pitching Your Idea, scheduled to occur on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 7:00 PM has been cancelled.
- LearningOpp: Developing Customer Personas, scheduled to occur on Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:00 PM has been cancelled.
These events will be rescheduled if not before the year ends then early January. LSManila will be having a meet-up before the month ends (November) so stay tuned for the details of that or better yet, join the MeetUp Group here to be notified.
I highly encourage you to help out in any way you can – through cash and in-kind donations and by being generous with your time and energy in assisting relief operations.A list of relief operation centers can be found on Rappler.
If you have further questions, you can email me. – Guita T. Gopalan, LSManila MeetUp Organizer
Can you clearly articulate your idea in less than 60 seconds? Learn how to capture the attention of investors, customers and partners with impactful pitches
Let’s face it; Venture Capitalist and Angel Investors don’t get much time to here pitches. The result of thousands of new entrepreneurs, innovators or ideas results in a mass of ideas to sift through. So how can you stand out from the crowd?
We are living in the age of the entrepreneur — more people are starting up, and it’s ever important to stand out in the crowd. When pitching investors, then, it’s crucial that entrepreneurs do their research, understand what’s expected of them and pitch accordingly.
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein
Your ability to create impactful pitches has a direct impact on your ability to get your idea off the ground. Whether your trying to convince investors to believe in your idea, trying to win over the hearts of potential customers, or trying to land a critical partnership deal, your ability to articulate your vision is all they have to evaluate you on.
Learn how to structure pitches that resonate the core values, offering and market of your idea in ways that instantly capture the attention of your audience. Whether its investors, angels, customers or partners, be certain you can get your intended message across.
In this bite sized workshop learn:
- The basic building blocks of great pitches
- Extracting core values from your idea
- Structuring impactful words
- Pitch validation and testing
- Does your pitch resonate
RSVP and Pay online via EventBrite
If you wish to pay offline (via bank deposit), kindly email the secretariat at cbs.philippines@gmail.com
ABOUT SCOTT BALES
Scott is a self-proclaimed extrovert who has meshes a fascination with people and what motivates them, with a raw enthusiasm for technology. Scott is a founding member of Moven the mobile-centric payments business that helps customers to spend, save and live smarter. A founder at Next Bank, a mentor to Entrepreneurs throughout world with Lean Startup Machine, sits on the Board of educational empowering NGO, Care Pakistan and holds advisory positions at, Invitre, HUB Singapore and CDI Apps 4 Good. Scott’s energy transfers to the stage as a globally recognized speaker on The Digital Shift, Consumers, Mobility and Innovation.
Scott has worked with various governments in Asia Pacific and Africa, taking on key advisory roles for countrywide infrastructure, and mobile commerce projects. As a multifaceted techie, he was instrumental in developing the mobile commerce space for markets in Malaysia, Singapore Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. He is on a mission to transform mainstream thought processing around conventional business practices.
When not in a boardroom or on centre stage, you’re likely to find Scott devouring, tweeting, and writing on the latest and greatest in the world of mobility, serendipity, user experience and entrepreneurial leadership. An outlet that landed him a contribution to best-selling book, Bank 3.0, Korean best-seller, Beyond Startup, and the upcoming ‘NextGen Finance’ and ‘Are you ready for Isaac?’
OTHER WORKSHOPS HAPPENING ON NOV 13-14, 2013
- Lean Start Up In Action – Nov 13, 2-5pm, Boni, Mandaluyong
- Creating Customer Personas – Nov 14, 7-10pm, Boni, Mandaluyong
Related articles
- Scott Bales: Manila’s StartUp Scene Heating Up (leanstartupmanila.wordpress.com)
- What Happened at Lean StartUp in Action (leanstartupmanila.wordpress.com)
POSTPONED! LearningOpp: Creating Customer Personas Workshop
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC: On behalf of LSManila community and our partners, we sincerely hope that your family and friends in the Visayas region are safe and sound. In light of the recent calamity, we feel its most appropriate that all resources be directed to ongoing disaster assistance endeavors.
As such the following events for the week have been cancelled:
- LearningOpp: Lean StartUp in Action (Introduction), scheduled to occur on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:00 PM
- LearningOpp: Pitching Your Idea, scheduled to occur on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 7:00 PM has been cancelled.
- LearningOpp: Developing Customer Personas, scheduled to occur on Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:00 PM has been cancelled.
These events will be rescheduled if not before the year ends then early January. LSManila will be having a meet-up before the month ends (November) so stay tuned for the details of that or better yet, join the MeetUp Group here to be notified.
I highly encourage you to help out in any way you can – through cash and in-kind donations and by being generous with your time and energy in assisting relief operations.A list of relief operation centers can be found on Rappler.
If you have further questions, you can email me. – Guita T. Gopalan, LSManila MeetUp Organizer
Creating Customer Persona’s
Building insightful customer persona’s can ensure a meaningful connection between a business and it’s target customers.
Personas tap into a fundamental human skill—the ability to make predictions about how other people will react based on mental models of them. One can often predict accurately how a close friend or family member will react to a particular event and decide how to act based on those inferences.
A persona is a description of a fictional person representing a user segment of the software you are developing. Of course, the word “fictional” applies to the person not the description; that should be as grounded in reality as possible.
Personas are one of the basic tools of User Experience (UX) design. The benefits to creating the personas collaboratively increases the accuracy and empathy of the persona and creates a level of awareness about the users that helps teams align around them..
Personas do not need to be complex to be useful. Begin by creating brief outlines of personas based on conversations with people who know the audience well, such as salespeople or customer service staff. Called “assumptive personas” because they are not based on actual data.
Personas create the foundation for strong Customer Discovery and Validation.
In this bite sized workshop learn:
- Persona Fundamentals
- Personas definition including different types of personas
- Case Studies of personas for different types of company including consumer, business-to-business and not-for-profit/public service
- Making the business case for personas in Startups and Corporates
- Persona visualization techniques
- Answer key questions like linking Personas to Customer Hypothesis, How Many Personas Do I develop, and what to include in a Persona
- Using Personas as the basis of Customer Discovery
- Online resources and books to find out more
Who should attend?
- Startup Founders
- Marketers
- Customer Experience Staff
- Entrepreneurs
RSVP and Pay online via EventBrite
If you wish to pay offline (via bank deposit), kindly email the secretariat at cbs.philippines@gmail.com
ABOUT SCOTT BALES
Scott is a self-proclaimed extrovert who has meshes a fascination with people and what motivates them, with a raw enthusiasm for technology. Scott is a founding member of Moven the mobile-centric payments business that helps customers to spend, save and live smarter. A founder at Next Bank, a mentor to Entrepreneurs throughout world with Lean Startup Machine, sits on the Board of educational empowering NGO, Care Pakistan and holds advisory positions at, Invitre, HUB Singapore and CDI Apps 4 Good. Scott’s energy transfers to the stage as a globally recognized speaker on The Digital Shift, Consumers, Mobility and Innovation.
Scott has worked with various governments in Asia Pacific and Africa, taking on key advisory roles for countrywide infrastructure, and mobile commerce projects. As a multifaceted techie, he was instrumental in developing the mobile commerce space for markets in Malaysia, Singapore Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. He is on a mission to transform mainstream thought processing around conventional business practices.
When not in a boardroom or on centre stage, you’re likely to find Scott devouring, tweeting, and writing on the latest and greatest in the world of mobility, serendipity, user experience and entrepreneurial leadership. An outlet that landed him a contribution to best-selling book, Bank 3.0, Korean best-seller, Beyond Startup, and the upcoming ‘NextGen Finance’ and ‘Are you ready for Isaac?’
OTHER WORKSHOPS HAPPENING ON NOV 13-14, 2013
- Lean Start Up In Action – Nov 13, 2-5pm, Boni, Mandaluyong
- Pitching Your Idea – Nov 13, 7-10pm, Boni, Mandaluyong
Related articles
- Scott Bales: Manila’s StartUp Scene Heating Up (leanstartupmanila.wordpress.com)
- What Happened at Lean StartUp in Action (leanstartupmanila.wordpress.com)
- Lean Startup Machine’s Scott Bales reveals opportunities and challenges for Philippine startups (techinasia.com)
POSTPONED! LearningOpp: Lean StartUp In Action (2nd Run)
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC: On behalf of LSManila community and our partners, we sincerely hope that your family and friends in the Visayas region are safe and sound. In light of the recent calamity, we feel its most appropriate that all resources be directed to ongoing disaster assistance endeavors.
As such the following events for the week have been cancelled:
- LearningOpp: Lean StartUp in Action (Introduction), scheduled to occur on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:00 PM
- LearningOpp: Pitching Your Idea, scheduled to occur on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 7:00 PM has been cancelled.
- LearningOpp: Developing Customer Personas, scheduled to occur on Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:00 PM has been cancelled.
These events will be rescheduled if not before the year ends then early January. LSManila will be having a meet-up before the month ends (November) so stay tuned for the details of that or better yet, join the MeetUp Group here to be notified.
I highly encourage you to help out in any way you can – through cash and in-kind donations and by being generous with your time and energy in assisting relief operations.A list of relief operation centers can be found on Rappler.
If you have further questions, you can email me. – Guita T. Gopalan, LSManila MeetUp Organizer
Lean Startup is a field-tested philosophy that provides you with a toolset to minimize failure and increase your chances of success. But what is Lean Startup, or more importantly, how do I implement Lean principles into my own company?
Drawn from Eric Ries’ bestseller, this short introduction shows you how I drive successful ventures. I have been building startups for the past 7 years and have refined a practical approach to building “lean startups.” This is a science for transforming an idea to a functioning new business with minimal risk, wastage and learning.
Learn why hundreds of companies, from financial services companies like Moven to social companies like Instagram to large corporations such as Intuit, Investec and News Corp are using this revolutionary technique.
You will learn:
• Practical knowledge in developing new products using lean startup methods
• Learn the science of validated learning
• Approaches to unlocking new innovative ideas
• Methods that can you apply to your business or organisation
Course outline
1. Introduction to Lean Startup
2. Ideation & Validation
– Customer, Problem & Solution
– Assumptions
– Minimum Viable Product
3. Get Out Of The Building
– Product Market Fit
– Customer Discovery & Exploration
– Pitch Method
– Concierge
– Research Analysis & Interruption
Who should attend?
• Entrepreneurs (tech, social entrepreneurs and non profit leaders, etc)
• Product Managers
• Executives and managers with a mandate for innovation
RSVP and Pay online via EventBrite
If you wish to pay offline (via bank deposit), kindly email the secretariat at cbs.philippines@gmail.com
ABOUT SCOTT BALES
Scott is a self-proclaimed extrovert who has meshes a fascination with people and what motivates them, with a raw enthusiasm for technology. Scott is a founding member of Moven the mobile-centric payments business that helps customers to spend, save and live smarter. A founder at Next Bank, a mentor to Entrepreneurs throughout world with Lean Startup Machine, sits on the Board of educational empowering NGO, Care Pakistan and holds advisory positions at, Invitre, HUB Singapore and CDI Apps 4 Good. Scott’s energy transfers to the stage as a globally recognized speaker on The Digital Shift, Consumers, Mobility and Innovation.
Scott has worked with various governments in Asia Pacific and Africa, taking on key advisory roles for countrywide infrastructure, and mobile commerce projects. As a multifaceted techie, he was instrumental in developing the mobile commerce space for markets in Malaysia, Singapore Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. He is on a mission to transform mainstream thought processing around conventional business practices.
When not in a boardroom or on centre stage, you’re likely to find Scott devouring, tweeting, and writing on the latest and greatest in the world of mobility, serendipity, user experience and entrepreneurial leadership. An outlet that landed him a contribution to best-selling book, Bank 3.0, Korean best-seller, Beyond Startup, and the upcoming ‘NextGen Finance’ and ‘Are you ready for Isaac?’
OTHER WORKSHOPS HAPPENING ON NOV 13-14, 2013
- Pitching Your Idea – Nov 13, 7-10pm, Boni, Mandaluyong
- Creating Customer Personas – Nov 14, 7-10pm, Boni, Mandaluyong
Related articles
- What Happened at Lean StartUp in Action (leanstartupmanila.wordpress.com)
- Scott Bales: Manila’s StartUp Scene Heating Up (leanstartupmanila.wordpress.com)
- Unlock Manila! Lean StartUp Machine (leanstartupmanila.wordpress.com)
- Lean Startup Machine’s Scott Bales reveals opportunities and challenges for Philippine startups (techinasia.com)
LearningOpp: Free Webcast: Lean Impact
Lean Impact: Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-driven Organizations
Date: November 5, 2013 at 10:00am PST
(PHILIPPINE TIME: November 6, 2013 – 1:00AM)
Speakers: Christie George, Akash Trivedi
Lean Startup ideas are being applied more and more often in non-profits, B-corps and other mission-driven organizations. As the ideas have spread in this world, they’ve come to be known as Lean Impact, and best practices are emerging. In this webcast, Christie George of New Media Ventures and Akash Trivedi of Kiva.org will discuss key Lean Impact approaches. Their conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Register here today!
Reposting from LeanStartUp.co
Lean Enterprise: Bringing Lean to Established Companies
Date: October 8, 2013 at 10:00am PDT
Speakers: Eric Ries, Brant Cooper, and Patrick Vlaskovits
Lean Startup techniques aren’t just for young companies. In fact, they’ve been profitably applied in established companies like Intuit, GE, and Toyota. But there are particular challenges in bringing Lean Startup to enterprise corporations, and they aren’t always obvious. In this webcast, Eric Ries, Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits – all of whom have worked closely with Fortune 500 companies – will discuss some of the most common mistakes and paths to success that established firms can take in implementing Lean Startup methods. Their conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Reposting from LeanStartUp.co
