2. a production practice
that considers the
expenditure of resources
for any goal other than
the creation of value for
the end customer to be
wasteful, and thus a
target for elimination
3. 1884 - First company to be operated by rules
similar to today’s corporations
Dutch East India Company
1908 - Harvard Business School was the first
program in the world to offer the Master of
Business Administration degree.
4. For some 80 years, students were educated
on how to “run” a company
Marketing, management, logistics, human
resources, finance, etc.
But for companies that were already big
What happens with smaller ones?
5. Start-ups are NOT smaller versions of a
bigger company…
As such, they should not be trying to create
value with the same techniques or tools
They operate in a highly risky, ever changing
environment, with limited resources
6.
7.
8. It all started with a course given by Steven
Blank
And it evolved into…
Business Model Generation, Alex Osterwalder
The Lean Start-up, Eric Ries
Running Lean, Ash Maurya
9.
10. A start-up is a human institution designed to
create something new in the face of
uncertainty with limited resources to do so
Learning does NOT justify failure…
If you cannot measure it, I don’t care…
Getting out of the building is good…
11. AK is a start-up…
Limited resources – check
Great uncertainty – check
Small group of talented humans – check
We are kind of doing lean already…
15. LeanAKademy – Eight 4-hour meetings in a
two month period, working on Lean…
You will develop your idea
Find the problems & test them
Pivot your idea if needed
Price them & demo them
Build a product and launch it