How to Build Your Lean Startup: Intensive Workshop

Six Hours of Practical Methods & Tactics

Minimize risk and waste in your customer development process and MVP build out.

March 16th – 10:30am to 5:30pm

A few words on what to do… followed by LOTS of how to do it:

  • Hands-on learning… develop your startup during the workshop
  • Insider advice on how potential investors will view your startup
  • Questions and answers on your specific startup idea

This is a how-to workshop.  Come prepared to do real work and make significant progress on your startup!

Results: 1. you get coherent, actionable customer development steps that help you build your MVPand pivot when necessary… 2. you learn how to build an effective Minimum Viable Product that can scale up.

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Why I Don’t Sign NDA’s

Asking angel investors to sign a non-disclosure agreement makes you look like an amateur.

Never ask a venture capitalist to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). They never do. This is because at any given moment, they are looking at three or four similar deals. They’re not about to create legal issues because they sign a NDA and then fund another, similar company–thereby making the paranoid entrepreneur believe the venture capitalist stole his idea. If you even ask them to sign one, you might as well tattoo “I’m clueless!” on your forehead. – Guy Kawasaki

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