The Top Goal
Summary Master the Lean Startup's Build-Measure-Learn framework to pursuing a software startup idea. Discover the multiple disciplines that need to come into play in getting a startup off the launchpad.
What I hope you will learn
- “Lean Startup”
- Build-Measure-Learn cycle and validated learning
- MVP: the narrow and broad definition
- Hypothesis: the concept, and the different types
- Pivot: what is it and how is it used
- Growth: Measuring and fostering growth
- Working in teams
- How to be an effective team member or leader
- How to deal with conflict in a team situation
- Basic familiarity with Agile methodologies
- Build/Measure/Learn
- How to find and evaluate startup ideas
- How to rapid prototype: paper prototypes, user experience flows, mockups
- How to Formulate and test hypotheses
- How to measure and test and validate your hypotheses
- Revenue and Growth
- Business and pricing models concepts and practices
- Engines of Growth: Different types, how to identify them, how to use them
- Measuring and Metrics: Importance, application, vanity and actionable
- Cohort Analysis: what it is, why it’s useful, how to do one
- Entrepreneurship
- Doing a basic financial analysis of a possible venture
- Role of cash in a startup: where it comes from and where it goes
- Understanding the essence of venture financing, equity and how it is divided up, burn Rate and Runway
What I hope you will be able to do
- Develop and be comfortable giving a presentation
- Have the discipline and tools to test and validate a startup idea before going off and implementing it
- Be confident in attacking a new idea and developing, iterating, and deciding to invest your time and money into it.