Podcasts about leanstack

Are you having trouble bringing clients to buy? How should you bring offers to your clients? In today's episode, the CEO of LeanStack, Ash Maurya, sits with Michael Zipursky to share his insights on how you can create consulting offers clients will buy. Publishing valuable content helps move your business forward, but that's not where the whole discussion ends. Through conversations, patterns begin to emerge, but when you can predict what your clients will say before they say it, you should shift to solution designing and pitching. Tune in to this episode and listen to this insightful conversation to put your business in a perfect position to succeed.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.consultingsuccess.com/podcast

We kicked off this season of international business in Nigeria. Our next stop is in Ireland – a small, but powerful nation considering its gateway position to the European Union.    Martina Goss, a certified lean startup coach, is our guide. She's brilliantly transformed her career from a certified accountant crunching numbers for existing businesses to a trusted advisor for startups. Her mission is to save startups from the pains of wasting time, effort, and money on businesses doomed to fail. She does this through a rigorous idea validation process.   In this episode, Martina shares what happens next with businesses that have successfully passed the idea validation “sniff test.” This includes her specific process for helping these startups establish the foundation for profitability and manageable growth using elements of business infrastructure and the LEANSTACK model.   She also explains why Ireland is a hotspot for establishing a European headquarters location, how you can start a business in Ireland, and where you can find Irish businesses to establish an import/export strategic partnership.   There's so much more to Ireland than shamrocks, pubs, and leprechauns. Discover how relationships you build can give access to the entire European Union population of 447M people!      

Timestamps: 4:20 - Reading business books in engineering school 11:50 - The lean startup methodology 19:30 - The lean canvas 39:52 - The entrepreneurial renaissance 51:54 - The lean workshop About Ash Maurya: Ash Maurya is the founder and CEO at Leanstack, a leading provider of Lean Startup and Lean Business Modeling tools, content, and coaching resources. He is also the author of the book Running Lean. Prior to Leanstack, he worked at companies like telecom technologies and Sonus Networks and founded the startup Wired Reach in 2002, which enabled the creation of simple peer to web applications that blurred the boundaries between the desktop and web. He holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology. The Lean Canvas came about as a way to combat the preconceived notion of business ideas as overnight successes. It helps aspiring founders take their idea and deconstruct it to learn what needs to be tackled first and how to chronicle the process. It helps you get specific (because if you try to build a product for everyone, you end up building a product for no one) and helps you find out whether the problem you're looking to solve is big enough. The Lean Startup Methodology can also help you figure out things like pricing. Founders tend to want to price their product in terms of solution (meaning, based on how much it costs to produce the product/solution) instead of pricing it according to the problem (figuring out how big of a pain the problem is, and how much people are willing to pay to fix it). It can also help founders find paths to customers, whether that be through paid advertising or through posting original content, or through being featured on other people's original content, like Ash just did with Swisspreneur. Memorable Quotes: "Being too early to market is almost as bad as being too late." "When we try to build a product for everyone, we end up building a product for no one." Don't forget to give us a follow on our Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Linkedin accounts, so you can always stay up to date with our latest initiatives. That way, there's no excuse for missing out on live shows, weekly give-aways or founders dinners!

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Growing Greener Innovations founder Connie Stacey has won The Forum’s Pitch for the Purse prize of $50,000 this year; Alberta's 2021 budget is "placing an increased spotlight on the technology and innovation sector"; on Feb. 25, Future Fields announced it had raised US$2.2 million in seed money; Alberta Innovates will introduce Alberta’s LeanStack class of 2021 on March 3; and Adam Danyleyko is leaving Startup Edmonton to join Amii.

This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community. Alongside our latest NFX Essay "The Hidden World of Pricing: Uber, Trulia, Etsy, Superhuman & More with Madhavan Ramanujam", we decided to release supplemental pricing articles on The Founders' List. Ash Maurya is the author of Running Lean and the creator of the one-page business modelling tool Lean Canvas. His posts and advice have been featured in Inc., Forbes, and Fortune. He regularly hosts sold out workshops around the world and serves as a mentor to several accelerators including TechStars, MaRS, and Capital Factory. He serves on the advisory board of a number of startups and has consulted to new and established companies. Author, creator of Lean Canvas, and founder of LEANSTACK. Ash's featured article in this episode: - My Experiments in Lean Pricing Read the full NFX pricing essay here - https://www.nfx.com/post/the-hidden-world-of-pricing/

Introduction Today I am chatting with Ash Maurya who is building his Leanstack business in harmony with his family in Austin Texas.  Ash is the creator of the Lean Canvas Business Model tool and author of Running Lean and Scaling Lean. What I saw in Ash is that he was an entrepreneur who had started and built several startups and had reflected on his experience as an entrepreneur and as a parent. This is what you will hear in this episode, through the lenses of his own tools, the Lean Canvas. Join the Future Proof You tribe: Join the Future Proof You tribe by signing up to the FPY newsletter: https://www.julienmarchand.co/ Continue the conversation on this podcast episode in the Future Proof You Tribe,  the Facebook Group. Special offers Learn how to launch or pivot a new product in the face of extreme uncertainty. A free 6-week online program. https://leanstack.com/foundations As part of this free course, if you craft the Lean Canvas for your business, I will give you a helping hand by reviewing it in a 1-1 session, book your session here: https://calendly.com/_julienmarchand/lean-canvas-diagnostic Connect with Ash Maurya: LinkedIn Profile URL:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashmaurya/   Inspiring soundtrack: My 10-year old Taiyo is the one in charge of the soundtrack. In his own words, he is a 'musical entrepreneur'. Every week he plays covers and his own compositions for the pleasure of the tourists in Manly,  Sydney Australia. Check out his YouTube channel and share it with your kids to inspire them:  http://www.TaiyoMarchand.com/Life is good when you #FutureProofYou, your Family and your Business...in that order!

Introduction Today I am chatting with Ash Maurya who is building his Leanstack business in harmony with his family in Austin Texas.  Ash is the creator of the Lean Canvas Business Model tool and author of Running Lean and Scaling Lean. What I saw in Ash is that he was an entrepreneur who had started and built several startups and had reflected on his experience as an entrepreneur and as a parent. This is what you will hear in this episode, through the lenses of his own tools, the Lean Canvas. Join the Future Proof You tribe: Join the Future Proof You tribe by signing up to the FPY newsletter: https://www.julienmarchand.co/ Continue the conversation on this podcast episode in the Future Proof You Tribe,  the Facebook Group. Special offers Learn how to launch or pivot a new product in the face of extreme uncertainty. A free 6-week online program. https://leanstack.com/foundations As part of this free course, if you craft the Lean Canvas for your business, I will give you a helping hand by reviewing it in a 1-1 session, book your session here: https://calendly.com/_julienmarchand/lean-canvas-diagnostic Connect with Ash Maurya:   LinkedIn Profile URL:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashmaurya/   Inspiring soundtrack: My 10-year old Taiyo is the one in charge of the soundtrack. In his own words, he is a 'musical entrepreneur'. Every week he plays covers and his own compositions for the pleasure of the tourists in Manly,  Sydney Australia. Check out his YouTube channel and share it with your kids to inspire them:  http://www.TaiyoMarchand.com/Life is good when you #FutureProofYou, your Family and your Business...in that order!

Hey, everyone! Today's guest is Ash Maurya, who has a long history in the startup world, he's actually created a product called Leanstack, which helps people who are interested in building products, build them more successfully. And allows them to gain traction much, much more quickly than you would normally be able to accomplish for those types of things. Normally when most people launch a product, they sort of go out and test this and test that and try that. You're going to run into stumbling blocks and roadblocks all along the way. What Ash has basically done is compiled the learnings that he's had in more than a decade of launching different products into a process that allows people to tenX their traction in 12 months, and validate and scale their ideas very quickly. So, if you're someone who's looking for a process, a step by step system, that takes your idea and validates it and then allows you to shortcut a lot of the shortcomings and the roadblocks that you normally have, you may want to check out his products and listen to this podcast episode to be able to learn a little bit more from Ash's experience. And with that we will get on with the show. In this episode we discuss: Entrepreneurial interests as a kid [3:00] Entrepreneurs that inspired him [4:16] How he learned programming [5:04] Joining a startup vs creating a startup [6:17] Failure of a startup due to not getting product-market fit [8:03] Starting a company after 9/11 [9:18] Mistake entrepreneurs/innovators make regarding sharing of ideas [11:27] Cracking the process of launching a product: what makes an idea amazing and creating a product from that [13:05] How a side project lead to the creation of Leanstack [15:30] Building a product that people don't want and why this happens [17:38] Triggering events for entrepreneurship [19:49] Businesses that will benefit from Leanstack [21:50] Stages of establishing a startup [23:41] What does success look like [25:39] What's next for Leanstack? [28:47] How to learn more about Ash and Leanstack [30:01] Quotable Quotes Love the problem, not the solution. When you try to market to everyone, you sell to no one. Links to sources and tools Sign up for free playbooks at https://leanstack.com/ Follow Ash and Leanstack on social media: Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/leanstack Personal Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashmaurya/ Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leanstack Twitter: https://twitter.com/ashmaurya Medium: https://blog.leanstack.com/@ashmaurya Support our podcast Rate and review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pass-the-secret-sauce-by-matt-shields/id1506940483 the podcast on iTunes or wherever you subscribe. Tell a family member, friend, or colleague about the show. Subscribe: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pass-the-secret-sauce-by-matt-shields/id1506940483 so you never miss an episode. Subscribe to us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ5eItxsGWyGKC91zd1pzbA and follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pass-the-secret-sauce-podcast

Ash Maurya is a practitioner and entrepreneur. Author of Running Lean, Scaling Lean and the Lean Canvas, built on top of the Business Model Canvas. Ash is also the founder of LEANSTACK. I took the chance to ask Ash a few questions. I tried to limit those as I had so many things I wanted to ask him. And Ash was kind enough to answer all of them! Key takeaways Entrepreneurs are risk-averse Entrepreneurship is about getting in love with the problem Avoid to fall in the innovator’s bias, or getting in love with the solution Demo-sell-build rather than build-demo-sell There is a key metric to assess the success of a business: Traction! Business models can be categorized according to the actors and interactions involved in three kinds: direct, multisided and marketplace Business models are always evolving Searching for the proper business model means making it profitable Look for the smallest market, that is big enough to make your business sustainable You need to be fast from idea to execution, as a few ideas will turn out to be successful

I have a very special guest, one of the pioneers of one of the most popular innovation frameworks these days: the lean startup framework. My guest is Ash Maurya, who along with Eric Ries, did some substantial work in this field, laying the foundations of this concept. You'll learn in this episode why this idea is still important today, especially in hardware field after it was born around the last financial crisis. You'll get to hear also what companies are using it, some tactics you can use to make it work for you and also how others use it so you can get inspired. Ash will describe some of the steps, milestones you should hit during the development. In addition he'll highlight some of the latest cutting-edge innovation topics he's been working on which connects with my one of past episodes, episode 18 with Alan Klement when we discussed the Jobs To Be Done framework. Enjoy this episode. Raw transcript is available at: https://www.thehardwareentrepreneur.com Show highlights can be seen below: The trigger behind the creation of the Lean Startup innovation framework [1:56] Some examples of big and small companies that prove Lean Startup principles are universal when applying the right tactics [7:24] Strategies that hardware startups use to go faster than their competitors [10:27] The three stages of Lean Startup, the risks associated with them and recommendations on how to move successfully through each one [16:18] Running Lean, Scaling Lean and the Customer Forces Canvas – when and how to use them [24:25] How a fisherman in South America surprisingly benefited from Lean Startup principles [29:11] If you could go back in time in your 20s, what notes would you give yourself? [34:08] If you had to name a book, which one had the biggest impact on your entrepreneurial career? [34:48] A routine hack for accomplishment-driven makers [36:25] Why sharing stories help us thrive in cultures with different nuances [38:00] What is the best way to reach Ash? [40:28]

Today on The Innovation Engine, we look at how you and your teams can start Running Lean with the man who wrote the book of the same title. Among the topics we discuss are why practice trumps theory, why your actual product is not really your product, how long it should take to figure out whether you have product-market fit, and why constraints can actually be valuable for anyone looking to innovate successfully. Our guest, Ash Maurya, is the Founder and CEO of LeanStack, a company that focuses on teaching practices that lead to continuous innovation through workshops, books, a web curriculum, and more. He's the author of Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan that Works, an "iterative book" that breaks down the process of building a successful company from the ground up, and also looks at how those same lessons can be applied by product professionals at more established companies. Ash is also the author of Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth.  Resources: Learn more at LeanStack.com Connect with Ash: LinkedIn | Twitter Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan that Works Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

Hi there folks! Creatives Meet Business is an event and podcast series based out of Austin, Texas for artists and creatives to learn the ropes of entrepreneurship. This episode features James Lanyon, Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at T3, who joined us in June during our roundtable event on Branding. As you'll soon find out, he is a fount of knowledge on all things sales AND designing products for your audience. Because there's so much magic in this episode - let's hop in and hear what James has to say! 0:00 to 3:46 - Ashland Opening Remarks and Intro of James Lanyon 3:51 to 6:53 - Introduction of Self and Topic (Designing for Sales) Despite all the case studies and business books you read, the truth in product and service creation that generates more demand is really more fundamental and gets down to two key realities. Personal story about graduate program Background in sales over 18 years Opportunity to control your own destiny from sales 6:54 to 7:48 - Where You Need to Focus Pitch Product - does the product speak for itself and have value Tendency is to err more toward one than the other Spend too much time noodling what you'll put out there 7:49 to 8:53 - CustomerCentric Selling CustomerCentric Selling  Sales isn't a sin Most really great salespeople are more like therapists and consultants Innate ability to get people to lower their guard and talk about real issues 8:54 to 9:32 - Three (3) Need States Someone Will Transact With You For Ultimately a person or company is going to give you money for one of three reasons: I need to achieve a goal, get from Point A to Point B Solve a problem, got stuck somewhere along the way Satisfy a need, I have a feeling Point B is out there, but I don't know how to get there 9:33 to 12:37 - Don't Stop at the Sale, Create the Product Sales and product creation are co-conspirators Create a feedback loop with the honest conversations you have with clients and customers to create opportunities for business You wear all of the hats as a business owner, but the two that should be worn at the same time are sales person and product creator Don't just use it to hone your pitch, use it to hone and create your product 12:38 to 14:07 - Pain Scale Pain scale like you'd see at the doctor's office with a series of faces from 1 to 10 to showcase pain Solution in search of a problem - when something is created that isn't a pain point for people Most issues on the far right side of the scale (where they're hurting) aren't being addressed and that's what people need and will pay for 14:08 to 15:00 - Test and Learn Processes Instead of responding immediately to a good idea and shifting your business model and overhauling your website, send a test email to say 25 of the 500 people in your database with the new idea you have. Keep repeating until you get 25 "no, I have no interest in this" and then check it off and move on. 15:01 to 17:16 - Lean Business Model Canvas Most start-ups are forced to do the exercise (if they get any funding) Several options for the Lean Business Model Canvas: Link to Lean Business Model Canvas on Canvanizer , Link to LEANSTACK site, or do a google image search Important for any business owner or entrepreneur to complete, not just start-ups seeking funding The problem doesn't have to be profound, but it has to be problematic in some sense for it to be a solution  You can write it over and over again, that's how businesses change over time One of the greatest assets you can have is to create a metaphor: I'm the this of that 17:20 to 19:07 - Ashland Closing Remarks Stay in touch, email us (ashland@cmbatx.com) or connect with us on social (@createmeetbiz on Instagram and Twitter // Creatives Meet Business on Facebook) Big thanks to Jamal Knox (audio engineer) and Chris James (composer)! If you like what you hear, share the podcast with your friends, and rate and review. To stay in the loop - follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or subscribe to the newsletter. Get ready for one more on Branding then we move to Fundraising, stay tuned! Thanks! Ashland, Creatives Meet Business

We are joined by Ash Maurya, CEO of LeanStack, creator of #LeanCanvas and author of Running Lean and Scaling Lean. https://app.leanstack.com/  

We are joined by Ash Maurya, CEO of LeanStack and author of Running Lean and Scaling Lean. Damien Browne, Founder, CEO of Standard access tells us about his Startup.

In episode 15 of the Startup Playbook Podcast, I interview Ash Maurya, the man who literally wrote the book on applying lean methodology to startups. Ash is the Founder of LeanStack and WiredReach, author of Running Lean and Scaling Lean and the creator of the Lean Canvas In this episode, Ash Talks about, the value of timeboxing, countering the innovator bias, how to ask the right questions and applying lean methodology to a scaling business. Show notes: Running Lean Scaling Lean LeanStack Credits: Intro music credit to Bensound. To enter social media competition: Twitter Instagram Snapchat: startupplaybook Click here to listen on iTunes Click here to listen on Stitcher The post Ep015 – Ash Maurya (Creator – Lean Canvas) on applying Lean Methodology to scaling businesses appeared first on Startup Playbook.

Hailing from Austin, Texas, Ash Maurya is the founder of Leanstack. Since bootstrapping his last company seven years ago, he has launched five products and one peer-to-web application framework. Throughout this time he has been in search of better, faster ways for building successful products. Ash has more recently been rigorously applying Customer Development and Lean Startup techniques to his products, frequently writing about this on his blog and turning this into the critically acclaimed book, “Running Lean: How to Iterate from Plan A to a plan that works”. Ash is also the creator of the one-page business modelling tool, the Lean Canvas, which is used by startups and corporate innovators across the globe. His new book "Scaling Lean: Master the Key Metrics for Startup Growth, debuted at #2 on the WSJ Business Bestseller list, and explores an invaluable blueprint for modelling startup success and ultimately scale a business by implementing a 10X rollout strategy. Ash is praised for offering some of the best and most practical advice for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs all over the world. Driven by the search for better and faster ways for building successful products, Ash has developed a systematic methodology for raising the odds of success built upon Lean Startup, Customer Development, and Bootstrapping techniques. Ash is also a leading business blogger and his posts and advice have been featured in Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and Fortune. He regularly hosts sold out workshops around the world and serves as a mentor to several accelerators including TechStars, MaRS, Capital Factory, and guest lecturers at several universities including MIT, Harvard, and UT Austin. Ash serves on the advisory board of a number of startups, and has consulted to new and established companies. Aside from creating indispensable resources for innovators and entrepreneurs, Ash is a foodie, a dad, a husband and a yogi. Topics Discussed: - His new book, Scaling Lean, and how it differs from Running Lean - An overview of the Running Lean process - How to 10x your company while staying lean - Using the lean canvas in large organisations - The metrics that matter and why one metric may not always be the best approach - Challenges in getting large organisations to adopt lean and how they might be overcome - Examples of how large companies have effectively implemented lean product development - How to identify and prioritise your biggest customer, market and product risks - What metrics corporate innovators should use instead of NPV and IRR - How much data is enough to draw conclusions - How to start embedding a culture of experimentation in a large, otherwise conservative, organisations - Why regulation is no excuse not to go lean and in fact is more reason to do so - Socratic thinking - How to get into flow   Show Notes: Twitter: @ashmaurya Ash's site: ashmaurya.com Ash's business: leanstack.com Ash's books:  Running Lean: https://amzn.to/2PSJDnb Scaling Lean: https://amzn.to/2DkiHeD   --- I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just leave your details at www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe and you’ll receive the very next one. Listen on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski

An entrepreneur isn’t an entrepreneur no matter how many businesses they try to build or how many startups they have a hand in. Entrepreneurs are built, too, and it’s a step too often skipped.  Today’s guest, Ash Maurya, founder of LeanStack, knows all about entrepreneurship. He also knows from personal experience what happens when you don’t build that skillset first. He’ll also be the first to tell you that the tools available to help you become a better entrepreneur aren’t readily available, especially when it comes to ideas and business plans. Discover:  The revolutionary way to ‘pilot’ a book and become a thought leader How to tell when an idea will work and when it won’t Where great business ideas come from The alterative to a business plan that works like LEGOs  If you’re interested in a simple, flexible way to build a business, or how to know when you’ve got an idea worth pursuing, you don’t want to miss this episode.  KEY POINTS:  At 4:00 – How to write a book using the lean startup method, and make yourself a thought leader in the process.  At 8:00 – Ash describes how his lean startup method goes a step further than its predecessors, and how it simplifies the process.  At 12:30 – Ash explains why the LeanCanvas method is something anyone can do; you don’t have to be a software designer like he is to use it.  At 17:00 – There’s lean startups, running lean, and now, Ash has a new book called Scaling Lean. Find out what that means for growing businesses.  At 21:00 – Ash explains why his passion lies in lean startups, and how he strives to build entrepreneurs instead of businesses.

Joining me for Episode #253 is Ash Maurya, author of the book Running Lean:Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works and his latest, being released this week, called Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth. Ash is an entrepreneur and a big part of the "Lean Startup" community. Visit his website at www.LeanStack.com.