“Lean” provides a scientific approach for creating a product and developing new businesses. Teams can build products or services to meet the needs of early customers by adopting a combination of customer development, business-hypothesis-driven experimentation and iterative product releases.
Tuesday, May 27th, 2014
11:30am-1:30pm, San Francisco, California
Key Takeaways:
- Why more and more companies are using Lean
- What is Lean; What it is Not
- Rules of thumb for successful lean innovation
Key concepts:
- Get out of your BatCave
- Use an initial product (MVP) as a probe to explore the market
- Build-measure-learn
- When and how to pivot
Speaker: Sean Murphy, CEO of SKMurphy, Inc., offers customer development services for technology entrepreneurs. SKMurphy’s focus is on early customers and early revenue for startups. Sean is an early and active member of the Lean Startup group and has been a workshop presenter and mentor at Lean Startup Conferences. SKMurphy’s clients have offerings in electronic design automation, artificial intelligence, web-enabled collaboration, proteomics, text analytics, legal services automation, and medical services workflow. Sean holds a BS in Mathematical Sciences and an MS in Engineering-Economic Systems (Management Science) from Stanford University.