January 2011
3 posts
Common Mistakes at #LSMsf
Congrats to our three winners at Lean Startup Machine San Francisco! These three teams rocked it and came up with awesome products. One even made money!
As a postmortem I thought I would go over some of the mistakes teams made as it’s our goal in future events to have every team perform at the level of our three winners. These are simple mistakes that could easily be avoided.
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“If a movie were to be made of Mr. Ferriss’s life, it would star Matthew...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07book.html
Notes from Chicago LSM
Lean Startup Mindset: “If my life depended upon it, what’s the least amount of work I have to do [to test this]?”
Before you sell your project, try to sell magic.
Concierge MVP -> FoodOnTheTable.com -> Went to supermarket and tried to sell imaginary app, kept everything manually until they needed to take on more customers.