Lean Canvas - Capture your idea in 20 minutes versus 20 weeks
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Don't Write a Business Plan. Create a Lean Canvas Instead. Lean Canvas is a 1-page business plan template created by Ash Maurya that helps you deconstruct your idea into its key assumptions.
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I teach Lean Canvas to more than hundred students. It's efficient to develop creativity, listening to each other, and it helps to be have a accurate vision of what a company is and work.
Pros:The canvas is a guide to help people think and make connections between theirs ideas to imagine what a business could look like.
Cons:It's a way of starting something, but only the constant efforts leads to the market
We use the lean canvas regularly in teaching and coaching
Pros:A great tool to check out Start-up ideas quickly
Cons:None
The creator, Ash, has taken an interesting approach to consolidating some "edge" strategic practices of the past with some new thinking. The tools he provides are not for every project, but they work well when there is a fit with a project
Pros:The lean canvas has taken advances in business modelling in an interesting direction. It's a great addition to overall strategic thinking
Cons:Doesn't work for everything, you need to judge carefully
Highly recommend it
Pros:very easy and intuitive use. Unlocks value when you use it.
Cons:none
Try it!
Pros:I use the Lean Canvas to help teams see all of their research in one place.
Cons:I’d love to see more filled in canvases as examples to help teams.
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Whenever I get an idea for a business, this is what I start with.
Pros:Keeps me focused on the right areas
Cons:Missing a community
Our thoughts are biased in themselves. When we have an idea churning and digesting inside the grey matter between our ears. We fall in love with it, we think of ourselves, our idea as unstoppable, it has no faults. With a tool like lean canvas, we are able to birth that idea into the world, without risking large sums of money: capital, or 3 years of grinding a business up the hockey stick curve. We can do it from the saftey of our office, or on the kitchen table. We can within 20 min unravel the lies we tell ourselves. And when faced with the truth, and various realities: Something magical happens, we can pivot and plan and expand upon over and over and over with no risk other than forgoing on our ego's. Going forward: We need more case studies, a collective hive of brains, and of their journeys and what failed and why, and of course what got traction and why. Require acess to a 3rd person to probe, and question our assumptions. Vital, we need someone to challenge our ideas, our thinking. This is a team sport, and lean canvas brings everyone together :)
Pros:Ability to put thoughts to paper (application) and flesh out new ventures, or expand upon old ones.
Cons:We need to ask of ourselves, and each other: Better questions, to derive better answers. And this is challenging for most, in isolation.
"I don't get out of bed in the morning without a Lean Canvas to guide my efforts. It is that good. And valuable." —Jeff 'SKI' Kinsey I have used it since SATX 3DS in Spring 2012.
Pros:This single sheet of paper is pure genius. It helps you do the mental exercises you might otherwise miss or forget to do.
Cons:Zero. None. Zilch. There is no better tool for going from idea to execution. Period.
Thanks for providing a structure for disciplined analysis of an idea. Business books can confuse with multiplicity of ideas and examples however Lean Canvas gives a structure to follow.
Pros:It is like accountability coaching - it gives your a structure for discipline.
Cons:There are I am sure many adaptions of this idea.
Works across all sectors including Not For Profit as well as commercial.
Pros:Easy to use yet very powerful and insightful.
Cons:Its a new concept for many so awareness and education important.