Lean Canvas - Capture your idea in 20 minutes versus 20 weeks

I knew Canvas before but now I deeply understand and apply Lean Canvas from Ash Maurya when I start up business at Canada. I learn from them and it gives me a lot of opportunities when I come to market and build the model for my own business. I wish I can knew Lean Canvas in 3 years ago. Thank you for your value in business. Bill @ Maple Smart Control - Mob App Solution for increase manpower efficiency, data storage and remote different location will try to apply this concept in my discover business in Canada

Ash Maurya is an excellent teacher and provides thought leadership. Anyone trying to build a product or service will benefit from learning about the Lean Canvas.

Pros:

A useful adaptation of the Business Model Canvas to bootstrapping startups.

Cons:

The time is on 'product-market' fit and I think it needs a shorter process of validating the problem.

The best way to use a Lean Canvas. I recommend to all my clients.

Lean Canvas has become a universal tool for business planning. It keeps you focused and forces you to answer the hard questions early, but does so quickly without getting lost in the weeds. Keep it clean, keep it focused, keep innovating -- those are just some of the benefits of using Lean Canvas.

Pros:

Makes the process of planning a new business or project very focused.

Cons:

If I really had to pick something, as others have mentioned, could benefit from added domain-specific materials.

Been using Lean Canvas for a couple of years now, and it's the best platform to test business ideas or to reframe existing ideas. I've recommended this to several friends when they're trying to figure out their idea but haven't fully thought through their whole business model.

This is not simply a tool for filling out out a Lean Canvas (a single page business model story), though it does that incredibly well. The Lean Canvas tool itself is excellent, allowing easy collaboration with others, as well as tools to make reading and presenting a canvas easier. However, the Lean Stack platform contains several tools -- not just the canvas -- and many resources for early-stage entrepreneurs. As a startup coach, my favourite part of Lean Stack I can oversee the work of several entrepreneurs within a single UI / workflow.

Pros:

Easy to master. An essential way for an entrepreneur to describe their business model story quickly, and succinctly.

Cons:

More examples of filled-in canvases would help to visualize the way that other businesses have used this tool.

Lean Canvas is a fantastic tool for evaluating and evolving your product, especially within a product team. The model is easy to communicate, and is particularly good for testing ideas and flushing out the vagueness. I've attended several of his workshops and Ash is an excellent teacher and is a passionate advocate for applying agile/CI models to business plans.

I've been using the lean canvas and it's the primary tool in my company to capture ideas, build, learn, communicate and deliver products.

I got my first account when it used to be spark59. Amazing tool.

Lean Canvas requires thinking time. It will give you a considered plan for your ideas and or business. For those new to Lean Canvas on Leanstack if you are feeling frustrated as you begin then you are on the right track! If it takes you and hour and 20 minutes the first time you use it for analysis then good! Thanks Ash Maurya.