Post on 26-Jan-2017
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WORKSHOP: LEAN CANVAS
• Intro to Lean Startup• The Lean Canvas– Overview– YOUR Lean Canvas
• Risks
Agenda
The Problem
Lean Startup
One Problem
Too much thinking, not enough askingToo much preparing, not enough feedback
Lean Startup
Build – measure - learn
Lean Startup
Lean Startup
“The Lean Startup provides an […] approach to creating and managing startups and get a desired product to customers' hands faster.”
Lean Startup
Build – measure - learn
“Build- Measure- Learn”
• Lean Canvas• Customer Development• MVP• (Actionable) Metrics• Pivot• Scrum• UI UX
LEAN CANVAS
Lean Canvas
“An easy way to capture your Business Model”
Lean Canvas
Focus on problems, solutions, key metrics and competitive advantages.
Lean Canvas
• One Page Solution, even for multisided businesses• Easy to understand• Easy to create• Fast to create• Easy to adapt• Easy to communicate• Entrepreneur focus
Multisided Business
Two-sided markets, also called two-sided networks, are economic platforms having two distinct user groups that provide each other with network benefits. The organization that creates value primarily by enabling direct interactions between two (or more) distinct types of affiliated customers is called a multi-sided platform (MSP).”
Lean Canvas
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1. Problem and Existing Alternatives– What are the Top 3 Problems that you are solving?– How are people solving the problems today?
2. Customer Segments and Early Adopters– Who are your target customers?– Out of these group who do you think are your first users (early Adopters)?
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3. Unique Value Proposition (UVP)
• Why you are different and worth getting attention• What makes you standing out?• What is the number one problem you are solving
and for whom?
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4. Solution• Top three features of your product
according to the problem you are currently solving?
Example (Faranesh)
1. Persian language2. Easy access3. Focus on Beginners Level
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5. Channels (Your path to the customer)• How do you reach your customers?
• Possible channels are:– SEO– Blogs/websites– Facebook Ads– Print Ads– Word of mouth– Events (Conferences, Tradeshows)– Partnerships– Friends
Examples
Word of mouth (Payping) Direct Sales (Rangitar)Appstore (Namlik)Social Media (Parvaneh)
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6. Revenue Streams– How are you going to make money? Not in three to five years but in 5 months?– How much money with each revenue stream (What are the models, how much money per
customer)
7. Cost structure– What are your upcoming operational costs? Not in three to five years but in the upcoming
months?• Server, Salaries, software, advertising…….
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8. Key Metrics• The numbers that tell you how you are performing!• Come up with three numbers.
Examples
Booked Sessions (Fullfekr)Number of daily unique visitors (Botick)Sold Items (EasyPaz, Limanza)
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9. Unfair Advantage• What do you have that others don’t have and cannot
easily copy or buy?
Examples:• Patent• Endorsement by a well known expert• Insider Information• A team with outstanding experience and knowledge
Lean Canvas
TIME TO GET FEEDBACK!
Feedback
Present your Canvas to one other team and ask them for feedback– Where did they have trouble to understand?– Did they have the feeling you were to general/to
detailed?– Could they think about different key features,
customers, additional channels,……
RISKS
Types of Risks
Product RisksGetting the product right
Customer RiskBuilding a path to customers
Market RiskBuilding a viable business
Risks
Product RisksGetting the product right
• Problem• Unique Value Proposition• High Level Concept• Solution• Key Metrics
Risks
Customer RiskBuilding a path to customers
• Customer Segments• Early Adopters• Channels
Risks
Market RiskBuilding a viable business
• Existing Alternatives• Revenue Streams• Cost structure• Unfair Advantage
Lean Canvas
TIME TO DISCUSS AGAIN!
Next steps
Next steps
Books to read
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)Running Lean (Ash Maurya)https://leanstack.com/blog/http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/