Takeaways from Plusconf on webapps and lean startups
The Plusconf event on web applications and lean startups had a great speakers list: Hiten Shah of Kissmetrics fame, Allan Branch from LessEverything.com, Todd Garland CEO of BuySellAds.com, Dan Martell...
View ArticleBusiness, mindfulness and communication: a story and a few tips
I’ve spent the last 4 weeks trying very hard to close a deal with an influential company, let’s call it X, to build a bespoke version of my startup’s product. The deal was officially off a few days ago...
View ArticleAdventurersLab: documenting the Stanford Entrepreneurship course
Last year a spur of online courses was announced among which featured the Technology Entrepreneurship course offered by the Stanford University. I jumped on this as soon as I found out about it and...
View ArticleAdventurersLab, part 1: 5 lessons on team building
The first two weeks of the Venture Lab course centered around team building. This makes sense as people form groups in preparation for the real start next week. The teams were initially formed by...
View ArticleAdventurersLab, part 2: 5 top tools for collaboration
Team collaboration has been pivotal to the success of the project and with a lot of remote and distributed teams is worth to take a look at the tooling that made that collaboration possible. Read on to...
View ArticleAdVenturersLab no more. Long live The Adventure Lab
New teams are being formed in sight of the real beginning of the course next week and as I bid farewell to my old group I'm excited to join some awesome people in The Adventure Lab. This series has...
View ArticleAdventure Lab, part 3: 5 lessons learned on brainstorming
With teams formed and pressing ahead with the first assignment one of the first tasks on the list is idea generation. I'm sure some folks came to the course with a great idea, but what if you could...
View ArticleAdventure Lab, part 4: 5 lessons learned on customer development
The Four Steps to the Epiphany book has dramatically contributed to shape what today is known as the Lean Startup movement. One of the fundamental concepts illustrated in the book is the idea of...
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