The document outlines Sébastien Arbogast's presentation on Lean Startup for Developers. It begins by asking attendees about their experience with startups. It then introduces Arbogast and his background. The bulk of the document contrasts traditional startup approaches like business plans and prototypes with Lean Startup approaches like customer interviews, business model canvases, and validated learning. It emphasizes gathering early feedback and iterating quickly rather than spending a long time planning before testing ideas with customers.
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Who are you people?
• How many of you are not developers?
• How many of you thought of creating their own startup one
day?
• How many of you went through and did create a startup?
• How many of you are still working in your startup?
• How many of you are working in a startup right now?
• How many of you are familiar with Lean Startup?
• How many of you are fed up with me saying the word
"startup" at this point already?
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Who am I?
• Java developer for 10+ years
• iOS developer for 5 years
• Agile methodology advocate for 8 years
• Freelancer for 5 years
• Lean Startup practitioner for 4 years
• Startup coach for NEST'up
• VP of Engineering for Take Eat Easy
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Market study vs…
• Questionnaires and surveys
• Market reports
• Quantitative only
• Takes time and money
• Only valid if you want to verify a strong hypothesis
• Very long iteration cycles
• Tends to confirm what you want to hear
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…Customer interviews
• Brainstorm all possible customer segments
• Choose 3 based on your gut feeling
• Draft a business canvas for each
• Sort them by pain level, ease of reach, price and market size
• Take the first one
• List your hypotheses
• Meet 10 people in that customer segment and ask questions
• Repeat
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Business plan vs…
• Takes time to write
• Long iteration cycle
• Very cumbersome to
update
• Who will read it?
• 3-year projections are
for existing business
models
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…Business Model Canvas
Name
Behaviors
Needs
& goals
Facts
3 most
pressing
problems
Existing
alternatives
for each
problem
Tagline for
your
marketing
website
X forY
One key
feature
for each
problem
Awareness
Acquisition
Distribution
Subscriptions
One-time
Variable vs fixed
How many customer to
offset costs
How will
you
measure
success?
Can't be
easily
copied or
bought
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The infamous prototype vs…
• You guess what people are going to need
• You guess what they are familiar with
• You include as many features as you possibly can
• Very few of those features will actually be used
• A lot of wasted time and effort
• DO NOT consider that as "free effort": opportunity cost
• When do you stop?
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Non-disclosure agreement vs…
• You are afraid that somebody with more money will steal
your great idea before you have the time to realize it but…
• Good and original ideas don't exist
• AWFUL IDEA = -1
• WEAK IDEA = 1
• SO-SO IDEA = 5
• GOOD IDEA = 10
• GREAT IDEA = 15
• BRILLIANT IDEA = 20
• NO EXECUTION= $1
• WEAK EXECUTION = $1000
• SO-SO EXECUTION = $10,000
• GOOD EXECUTION =
$100,000
• GREAT EXECUTION= $1,000,000
• BRILLIANT EXECUTION =
$10,000,000
X
Source: Derek Sivers
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…Feedback, feedback, feedback
• Feedback from real potential users (who might become your
first customers)
• Feedback from potential investors
• Finding cofounders and partners
• If your idea is all you have, you have nothing
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Business plan pitching vs…
• Angel investors are interested in
• Quality, passion, commitment, integrity
• Market opportunity and potential
• Business plan AND initial traction
• Technology and intellectual property
• An appropriate valuation
• Exit strategies
• You need: an elevator pitch, a pitch deck, a prototype…
• But more importantly, you need introductions!