Contact
Nancy PowellSCORE Los Angeles
818-552-3206
Where
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
350 S. Bixel St
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Driving Directions
Parking: Metered street parking in front and surrounding the Chamber building. Parking in the Chamber garage for a fee of $6.00
Patrick Vlaskovits is an entrepreneur, mentor and author. He has founded two startups (now on his third). Patrick has spoken at tech conferences nationally and internationally, including SXSW. Patrick enjoys advising and mentoring and serves as a mentor for the 500 Startups seed fund/accelerator as well as for The Lean Startup Machine. Patrick organizes Twiistup, a well-attended tech/startup conference that celebrates the entrepreneurial and investment talent of the Los Angeles startup ecosystem. He also organizes the Los Angeles Lean Startup Meetup. He is the co-author of The Lean Entrepreneur (Wiley), blogs at http://vlaskovits.com, and can be followed on Twitter @Pv. Patrick holds a Master's in Economics (emphases in finance and econometrics) from University of California, Santa Barbara.
8-9-12 At the L.A. Chamber of Commerce- How to Test Your Business and Product Ideas Before You Build Them.
What you will Learn:
Reduce your wasted time and money by testing the market for a product early and often. This workshop teaches entrepreneurs how to approach risk head-on and test market ideas immediately, foster stronger customer relations, test different business model risks, and create a customer funnel based on buyers' process in order to eliminate unnecessary time and effort.
After reviewing Customer Development and Lean Startup principles, you will dive into applying them toward describing your proposed business model, documenting your assumptions, identifying and prioritizing risks, and finally learning how might go about testing.
Teams are welcome! You are encouraged to bring questions and issues from your business or startup idea.
Learn how to Get Started:
The difference between listening to customers and doing what they say How Customer Development fits into the Build -> Measure -> Learn framework The Stages of Customer Development When NOT to do Customer Development
What you will also get:
A digital copy of The Entrepreneurs' Guide To Customer Development (worth $25) A pre-order of their upcoming book, The Lean Entrepreneur (worth $35)
Brant Cooper helps startups get started. As a Lean Startup thought leader, he travels the world speaking to entrepreneurs at conferences, hackathons and workshops around the world. Brant also consults for and advises startups on Lean Startups and Customer Development. Clients include Qualcomm, MOGL, HubKick, MotherKnows, i.TV, Lean Startup Machine, Discovr and many others.
Brant has over 20 years experience in IT and a long track record of bringing high tech products to market. As a leader in Professional Services, Product Management and Marketing, he has directed strategy, design, marketing and implementation of numerous products for a variety of startups including Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, Incode and InfoBright.
He is the co-author of The Lean Entrepreneur (Wiley), has published articles for Venture Beat and Business Insider, blogs at Market By Numbers and tweets @brantcooper.