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Introduction to Lean Startup
by Trevor Lohrbeer

@FastFedora
trevor@FastFedora.com
FastFedora.com

@LeanDecisions
trevor@LeanDecisions.com
LeanDecisions.com
What is Lean Startup?
A scientific approach to
creating a new product or service
in conditions of high uncertainty
Why Use Lean Startup?
1.

Lower Your Market Risk

2.

Use Less Capital

3.

Increase Your Agility
Traditional Product Development
Generate
Idea

Create
Download Form

Build Product

Learn What
Customers Want
Getting Lean
Run a Smoke Test
Generate
Learn What
Idea Customers Want

Create
Download Form





Build a Minimum Viable Product
Create
Generate
Download Form
Idea

Learn What
Build
Product Customers Want

Reduces time to feedback
Enables faster course corrections
Minimizes capital spent developing unwanted
features / products
Customer Development
1. Customer Discovery
Achieve Problem/Solution Fit
2. Customer Validation
Achieve Product/Market Fit
3. Customer Creation
Drive Demand
4. Company Building
Scale the Company
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
The simplest product or service
that provides value to a customer
Old Way






Research the market
Build the entire
product or service
Launch
Find out if you can
sell it

New Way





Build a minimum
product or service
Attempt to sell it
Iterate based on what
you learned
Example: MVP
Validated Learning
Old Way






Do something
Debrief
Invent reasons for
results
“Lesson Learned”
(but not really)

New Way








Make a hypothesis
Create experiment
Run experiment
Analyze results
Hypothesis either
validated or not
Lesson only learned
once validated
The Build-Measure-Learn Loop
Ideas
Learn

Build

Data

Product

Measure
Split Tests
Do you want more readers?
Metrics
Vanity

Actionable

Sound awesome, but
usually meaningless.
Often up and to the right.

Ties specific and
repeatable actions to
observed results.

#

Conversion

Customers
Revenue
# Page Views

Rate
Cost of Acquisition
Churn Rate
Cohorts
Month 1

Month 2

Month 3

Month 4

Month 5

Month 6

Joined
Month 1

100%

10%

8%

5%

3%

2%

Joined
Month 2

100%

13%

10%

8%

7%

?

Joined
Month 3

100%

18%

14%

12%

?

Joined
Month 4

100%

19%

17%

?

Joined
Month 5

100%

25%

?

Joined
Month 6

100%

?
Product/Market Fit
When you have a product that you can consistently
and repeatedly sell to a specific market.
Signs of Product/Market Fit
When you have a block of customers with:
Similar Usage & Results
Repeatable Buying Patterns
Few Customization Needs
The Pivot
A structured course correction designed to test
a new fundamental hypothesis about the
product, strategy, and engine of growth.
* Requires validated learning
Other Terminology






Iterative Releases
Continuous Deployment
Business Model Canvas
Get Out of the Building (GOOTB)
Innovation Accounting
Questions?
Trevor Lohrbeer

@FastFedora
trevor@FastFedora.com
FastFedora.com

@LeanDecisions
trevor@LeanDecisions.com
LeanDecisions.com

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