I finally made it to finalize the video about my “business modeling with the canvas” presentation” which I conducted at the Munich Startup Accelerator event. The video quality is not super perfect so consider it a minimum viable video. You can have a look at my speakerdeck, in case you can’t read the slides well […]

Recently I got asked by an entrepreneur whether the definition of an early adopter includes both users and customers or either. Let’s start with some traits of an early adopter first. I highlighted three typical characteristics of an early adopter in my presentation about > Building a successful MVP: Confirms the problem – which means that the […]

In the last blog post, I shared my 3 effective steps to a defendable name. Now that you have some guidelines and tools for the more technical part of the naming process, I would like to share my view related to the creative part of coming up with a decent name. Let me start with […]

You feel like you are on to something. The vision is pretty clear, first steps down the road are defined. After a first creative session on how to name the new baby, you feel like you want to make sure that you can actually defend your product, service or company name appropriately. I have been […]

No doubt, the business model canvas has improved the way we describe business models nowadays. After my first interaction with it – August 2010 at Haas Business School in California – I have created dozens of them myself and have facilitated as well as provided feedback on hundreds of them in my role as coach […]

I had the pleasure to be a speaker, coach and jury member at Germany’s 1st Lean Startup Machine event in Munich. 11 teams were driven by a strong vision and tons of assumptions. They got out of the building and got hit by the reality. They documented their learnings on the Validation Board and pivoted […]

Some days ago, I conducted a presentation on the Lean Startup Approach at the Wayra Academy in Munich to incubated startup teams, my Executive MBA alumni and some industry experts. Three interesting questions came up: How to use the Lean Startup approach with bigger teams of e.g. 10 and more people involved? Isn’t the way […]

I am going to talk about the Lean Startup approach this coming Friday in the Wayra Munich Academy to a mixed audience of entrepreneurs, consultants and corporates (Executive MBA alumni & Wayra teams). In order to prepare accordingly, I decided to apply Design thinking to the overall presentation design. First I applied divergent thinking and […]

Following requests, I uploaded the slides I used for my talk at the Munich Startup Accelerator about business modeling and the business model canvas. They are not completely self-speaking, so it will be hard for those who did not participate to grasp the full meaning. Sorry about that and I am working on finalizing the […]

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