Presentation by Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits at Lean Startup Michigan.

1. The Lean Entrepreneur
Lean Startup Michigan
May 17, 2012
Brant Cooper Patrick Vlaskovits
@BrantCooper @pv

2. You Are a Visionary.

3. You Are a Visionary.
NOT

4. “Should I put my beer down, bro?”
“A lot of people are focused on taking over the world… I really just
want to create a really cool college directory product” -Zuck in 2005

5. A Disruptive Wave is Building

6. The last time,
the world was re-shaped.

7. The Gilded Age
Railroads & telegraph were
the disruptive technologies.

8. What does this future wave hold?
Volatility, Uncertainty,
Opportunity.

9. Frictionless Economy
New people
creating
new value for
new customers.

10. The Tragic Irony
The more connected we are, the more fragile.

11. Lean Startups Surf Uncertainty

12. The Lean Entrepreneur
Customer Interaction & Segmentation

13. The Lean Entrepreneur
Viability Testing

14. The Lean Entrepreneur
Data & Actionable Metrics

16. http://LeanEntrepreneur.co
@BrantCooper and @Pv

17. The Lean Entrepreneur
Nanotechnology (Disruption)
Music & Artist Development (Artists as MVPs)
Tech Startups (Early Adopters)
Apparel & Ecommerce (Segmentation)
Finance & Investment (Disruption)
Consumer Packaged Goods (Iteration)
Machine Vision (Customer Development)