Weekly Lean Startup roundup — March 17th, 2017
Hey folks,
Here are this week’s new/trending Lean Startup and Innovation stories on Medium.
Thanks,
Aligning Your C-Suite to Promote Innovation
By: Geoff Wilson
Even though some enterprise companies have begun embracing a lean startup mentality, most have been slow to wake up to the new reality that technology has shifted transactional power to their customers. In recent years, nearly every product or service company has become a technology provider, adding new strains to the responsibilities of IT.
UI vs. UX
By: Angel Murchison
In the context of applications, the problem can be framed as a competition between having a clean and attractive user interface (UI), while also providing an intuitive and enjoyable user experience (UX). While essentially everyone is the target of these interfaces and experiences, many people don’t actually understand the difference between those two concepts.
Designing early customer learning
How to test assumptions and reduce risk, quickly
By: Ryan Finch
It’s important to learn well. Learning well is faster, reduces more risk, and can have just as much impact on an idea’s success as the idea itself. Learning well doesn’t require a larger budget, longer timeline, or expensive consultants. Anyone on a project team (and as many as possible) can design better learning by following a few simple steps.
How to Pitch to Investors using a Lean Startup Approach
By: Andy Cars
When early stage startups pitch to investors it often becomes clear after only a few slides if they are pitching using a Lean Startup approach. Based on my experience (I’ve seen more than 1 000 pitches) most seed stage startup teams still pitch using a waterfall approach. Let’s have a look at how they differ.
From Burn To Lean: A First- hand Retrospective On The Cockroach Approach to Startup Survival
By: Exotel
At the time, our clientele included other excited but penniless entrepreneurs also sitting in dingy, windowless rooms, many of whom have grown as we grew. On the way to becoming one of the leaders in Cloud telephony in South-Asia, I reckon that we have learnt a few things that helped us not just survive- but thrive.
