I originally published this post here on Grasshopper Herder, my innovation blog. I lead a team of coaches at Kromatic, whose mission is to help companies get to market fast and reduce the cost of innovation. Subscribe to our newsletter or speak to one of our coaches to see if we can help you reach your innovation goals.
At the risk of rehashing an argument, there is an ongoing misconception that creating a company under a lean startup approach is incompatible with a big entrepreneurial vision. …
My team at Kromatic and I originally published this post here on Grasshopper Herder, our lean startup blog. Kromatic’s mission is to help companies get to market fast and reduce the cost of innovation. Subscribe to our newsletter or speak to one of our coaches to see if we can help you reach your innovation goals.
Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas is the tool of choice for a quick, one page dashboard of your business hypotheses. It very much appeals to the business guy in me, but it irks the User Experience (UX) part of my brain.
But hey…the canvas is a tool. Use the right tool for the right job. …
My team at Kromatic and I originally published this post here on Grasshopper Herder, our lean startup blog. Kromatic’s mission is to help companies get to market fast and reduce the cost of innovation. Subscribe to our newsletter or speak to one of our coaches to see if we can help you reach your innovation goals.
(This is part of a series of posts about testing product/market fit. Download our Product/Market Fit Storyboard.)
The terms Product/Market Fit and Minimal Viable Product have been inexplicably (and inextricably) linked in the tech consciousness.
If people sign up for our MVP, that means we’ve got Product/Market Fit, right? …
My team at Kromatic and I originally published this post here on Grasshopper Herder, our lean startup blog. Kromatic’s mission is to help companies get to market fast and reduce the cost of innovation. Subscribe to our newsletter or speak to one of our coaches to see if we can help you reach your innovation goals.
How do we run lean startup experiments?
When I was studying marketing I had an arms length list of research techniques like conjoint analysis, surveys, and focus groups. …
By: Tristan Kromer
My team at Kromatic and I originally published this post here on Grasshopper Herder, our lean startup blog. Kromatic’s mission is to help companies get to market fast and reduce the cost of innovation. Subscribe to our newsletter or speak to one of our coaches to see if we can help you reach your innovation goals.
As some of you may know, TaskRabbit launched a new business model on April 1st, 2012: Puppies-as-a-Service.
Although they chose not to continue down that path, we think it’s a fabulous idea and it’ll make a great example to use with our new Business Model Canvas. …
By: Tristan Kromer
My team at Kromatic and I originally published this post here on Grasshopper Herder, our lean startup blog. Kromatic’s mission is to help companies get to market fast and reduce the cost of innovation. Subscribe to our newsletter or speak to one of our coaches to see if we can help you reach your innovation goals.
When I last left off, the product/market fit side of the intrepid Puppies-as-a-Service Business Model Canvas was done.
The (somewhat dubious) plan is to rent adorable puppies to heroin addicts (with a heart!) who would like to pick up chicks with a ‘no poop’ experience (recall that these are our Value Propositions.). I’ll rent these puppies out of the back of a pedicab delivering excellent customer support via an awesome customer support desk which is really just a cell phone. …
My team at Kromatic and I originally published this post here on Grasshopper Herder, our lean startup blog. Kromatic’s mission is to help companies get to market fast and reduce the cost of innovation. Subscribe to our newsletter or speak to one of our coaches to see if we can help you reach your innovation goals.
(This is a guest post by Rich Mironov, who coaches product executive and product management/owner teams. He wrote The Art of Product Management. You can find Rich on Twitter, LinkedIn or on his blog.)
My team at Kromatic and I originally published this post here on Grasshopper Herder, our lean startup blog. Kromatic’s mission is to help companies get to market fast and reduce the cost of innovation. Subscribe to our newsletter or speak to one of our coaches to see if we can help you reach your innovation goals.
In a previous post, we criticized adoption of the term Lean Enterprise and were accused of making a straw man argument.
That is 100% correct. It is a straw man argument.
It’s the straw man that we’re arguing against.
The enterprise adoption of lean startup principles is following much the same course as startup ecosystems adopting lean startup. There’s a lot of cargo cult buzzword adoption. …
My team at Kromatic and I originally published this post here on Grasshopper Herder, our lean startup blog. Kromatic’s mission is to help companies get to market fast and reduce the cost of innovation. Subscribe to our newsletter or speak to one of our coaches to see if we can help you reach your innovation goals.
The first time I saw Kent Beck speak he was going on and on about an itchy goat. I had no idea who he was or why he was talking about this goat or why he was scratching it on the back. …
My team at Kromatic and I originally published this post here on Grasshopper Herder, our lean startup blog. Kromatic’s mission is to help companies get to market fast and reduce the cost of innovation. Subscribe to our newsletter or speak to one of our coaches to see if we can help you reach your innovation goals.
Large companies find it difficult to share new ideas, and nearly impossible to test and implement them. Small, scrappy startups seem to have the upper hand when it comes to rapid innovation. But that doesn’t mean corporations can’t leverage their size in this arena. …
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