Valley Café 30-01-2014 Servitization & New Year’s Drinks
Agenda
• Monthly Valley Update by Floris van Eck
• Made to Serve I & II by Prof. Ir. Bart Nieuwenhuis (Services Valley)
• Servitization at Canon Business Services by Willem Boijens (CBS)
• … and last but not least New Year’s Drinks
Valley Update
Teamvalley
We would like to give a warm welcome to three new colleagues:
• Rob Pijpers (Business Development)
• Boy Haenen (Events & PR)
• Marianne Lucassen (Office Management)
Join us on Meetup.com
• We recently launched our community on Meetup
• Aim is to make it easier for the occasional visitor to find Services Valley
• Meetup will compliment, not replace registration on Eventbrite
• Sign up now at meetup.com/servicesvalley/
Follow @valleyradar
Scanning for the best links on start-ups, innovation, incubation and information services development. Part of and curated by @servicesvalley.
Lean Startup Weekend
• This will be the first lean start-up weekend in Limburg
• Collaboration with Startup Foundation Rotterdam
• Up to 50 entrepreneurs can participate
• We are targeting a weekend in mid-May, more news in february
A startup is an organisation formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. - Steve Blank
What is a start-up?
The Lean Start-up
• Eliminate uncertainty with rigorous testing
• Work smarter not harder
• Develop a Minimum Viable Product
• Use validated learning to demonstrate process
• Heavy focus on product and customer development
Eric Ries ‘The Lean Startup’
Lean Feedback Loop
Ideas
CodeData
Build
Measure
Learn
Eric Ries ‘The Lean Startup’
Today’s Pitches
App Flavors
‘Platform for social app discovery within companies’
Appar is a platform to help companies increase the productivity of their employees by making app discovery easier and more social. appar.nl • @appar_nl
Album Team
‘Have a professional make your photo album’
Album Team allows you to upload your digital photo’s and have them professionally edited and selected and turned into a beautiful photo book. albumteam.co • @albumteamco
Next Valley Café 27 february
Age of ContextHow will contextual technology influence the way we live and work in the future?
• Five shaping forces: Mobile, Social Media, Data, Sensors (the Internet of Things), Location Based Services
• Application: everywhere – from healthcare to home automation to safety
• Important step on the road to true Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• E.g. fridge magnets that can order your favourite pizza, software that disables the gas on stolen vehicles and radiation detectors in Japan
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