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Customer
Development
Bootcamp
	
  	
  From customer interviews
	
  	
  	
  to customer traction
@taavilindmaa
Monday, August 26, 13
About Me
Taavi Lindmaa
Tweet to: @taavilindmaa
• UX Designer & Product Lead @Dopamine NYC
• Certified Gamification designer, researcher for “The
Gamification Revolution” by Gabe Zichermann
• Advised & Incubated at Founder Institute NYC, Gamefounders
• From Estonia where Skype was made
Monday, August 26, 13
The Lean Startup
by Eric Ries
@taavilindmaa
Monday, August 26, 13
 	
  Lean Startup is
• Customer Development
• Agile Development
• Lean Manufacturing
@taavilindmaa
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Lean Startup Machine
weekend workshops
@taavilindmaa
Monday, August 26, 13
@taavilindmaa
200 WORKSHOPS IN 2013
New York
Boston
Chicago
Austin
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Washington DC
San Francisco
San Diego
Toronto
Montreal
Tokyo
Shanghai
Karachi
Lahore
Dubai
Moscow
Tel Aviv
Milan
Amsterdam
Riyadh
Sao Paolo
London
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Validation
	
  	
  	
  	
  Board
	
  	
  Free download at:
leanstartupmachine.com/validationboard/
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GOAL: Save Cash
Spent Between Pivots
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PRODUCT =
EXPERIMENT
GOAL: Save Cash
Spent Between Pivots
Monday, August 26, 13
PROGRESS =
VALIDATED
LEARNING
PRODUCT =
EXPERIMENT
GOAL: Save Cash
Spent Between Pivots
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   STEP 1:
Who is the customer?
	
   Define Your Customer Hypothesis
@taavilindmaa
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   STEP 2:
What is her problem?
	
   Define Your Problem Hypothesis
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  PROBLEM
• _______ have a problem
with _______
• Car owners have a problem with
gas prices
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  SOLUTION
Do not define solution until the problem
is	
  validated
@taavilindmaa
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   STEP 3:
What do you test?
	
   Plan your Experiment (MVP)
@taavilindmaa
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  What must we learn?
What are the Core Assumptions of
our business?
Prioritize: Which Assumption is
the Riskiest?
@taavilindmaa
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Validation Stages
1.Exploration -> reproduce problem
2.Pitch -> collect currency
3.Concierge -> deliver customer
expectation
(Methods increase in cost of testing)
@taavilindmaa
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STEP 4?
@taavilindmaa
Monday, August 26, 13
  GET OUT
	
   	
   OF THE
BUILDING!
@taavilindmaa
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Exploration
Method
Monday, August 26, 13
Todd!
My customer is
anyone who...
Monday, August 26, 13
How To Find Customers
1.Interview Strangers on Street
2.Shopping Mall & StarBucks
3.Bored People
4.Craigslist
5.LinkedIn
6.Cold Calls
7.Surveys (For Lead-Gen)
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Record Data
Monday, August 26, 13
Pitch
Method
Monday, August 26, 13
Pitch
• Landing page
• Cold email
• Cold call
• Fake ad
• Walking into the store and pitching the owner
• Kickstarter
@taavilindmaa
Monday, August 26, 13
Concierge
Method
Monday, August 26, 13
Concierge
• Email
• Physical labor
• Spreadsheets
• Open Source Software
• Cell phone
@taavilindmaa
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  Learn More
www.leanstartupmachine.com
@taavilindmaa
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Lean Startup Machine
Helsinki
13-15 September 2013
leanhelsinki.eventbrite.com
	
  
@taavilindmaa
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Thank you!
Taavi Lindmaa
taavi@lindmaa.com
@taavilindmaa
Monday, August 26, 13
CASE STUDY 1
How Trevor Saved 10k & 6 months
Monday, August 26, 13

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