by Sing Yang Cheng | Dec 6, 2021 | Lean Business
How to succeed in a Startup? Certainly there are more than ten steps to building a successful start-up. There is an extensive body of literature on the subject, and some of our favorite books and articles are listed in the next post on Start-up Success Literature....
by Sing Yang Cheng | Dec 6, 2021 | Lean Business
Start-up Science introduction in 1 Hour: Steve Blank is the father of modern entrepreneurship. He and his Student Eric Ries have made a science of the processes involved in engineering new start-ups. Here he explains his journey and the work his Stanford MBA students...
by Sing Yang Cheng | Dec 6, 2021 | Lean Business
Product Adoption, often realized as traction, is the ability of a new product to capture the attention, engage and modify the behaviors of a group of users. I have been fascinated with the dynamics of product adoption since I started developing strategic (not...
by Sing Yang Cheng | Dec 6, 2021 | Lean Business
Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden, in their book on Lean UX, describe how founders often operate in a “reality distortion field”. They recognize that it takes a nearly unrealistic level of confidence to form a new & innovative business venture. Startup founders must...
by Sing Yang Cheng | Dec 6, 2021 | Lean Business
A Low Fidelity Artifact is a fancy word for something that is often no more than a scribbled doodle. A Low Fidelity Artifact is an inexpensive way to capture ideas and develop a shared understanding without generating a cumbersome design document that the team is...
by Sing Yang Cheng | Dec 6, 2021 | Lean Business
We have all felt the rush of energy we get when we are presenting in front of a crowd. Presenting your startup dreams in front of investors can multiply that energy several fold. Here’s how to channel and manage that energy so that it helps you make a great pitch...