Lean Analytics Book<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe Timeline<\/h3>\n With this at hand we managed to finish our first self-developed Business Model Canvas, and so we moved on to the last part of the conceptual day: the timeline. Nearly as easy as it sounds, you define three time-intervals and decide for each of those phases your goal, invest, team size, OMTM, hypothesis, important tasks, open questions and possible obstacles.<\/p>\n
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Intrapreneurship<\/h3>\n The following talk of Philipp Stork was about a question that big companies started asking: \u201cWhy can\u2019t we be as quick as a startup?\u201d The phrase \u201cIntrapreneurship\u201d indicates that those companies should develop an entrepreneurial mindset within its employees and empower them to pursue their demand for creating something new, in the name of the employer. This sounds like a pure win-win situation, you maybe think? Research shows that there are companies that fail to implement a startup character within a motivated team, or sadly still don\u2019t want to see this \u201cunconventional\u201d method as a valid solution. Yet when a company goes that way and really empowers their Intrapreneurs, there is a chance of success.<\/p>\n
Entrepreneurship<\/h3>\n Since most of the meet&greets, talks and tasks of the workshop were about sharpening our concept for a possible startup, in his keynote, Matt managed to find the right words about what it takes to be an entrepreneur. He broke it down into three main-skills: \n1. Think outside the box: Because there will be moments you couldn\u2019t foresee, and you have to react, there will be problems you have to solve creatively and pragmatically, you got to be able to improvise and surprise! \n2. Be focused: Just as mentioned before \u2013 use your resources effectively. As an entrepreneur you can only set small accents, yet if you place those correctly, you can make a change, because you have the freedom from all the internal politics, bureaucracies, hierarchies and everything else that slows down bigger companies, but a big chunk of motivation, team-feeling, including the responsibility to quickly launch your product with the available resources, and beat incumbents to market. \n3. Don\u2019t get discouraged: Especially after the first few days \/ weeks it comes again: The daily business \u2013 just like in a relationship, you will have to make the transition from \u201chaving a crush\u201d to \u201cbeing in love\u201d. On a journey as a founder, you meet a lot of naysayers just as sure as failure will happen. This should never be a reason to think about stopping, but to stand up, learn from mistakes, filter between good and bad advice and have the courage to learn and maybe change a plan quickly.<\/p>\n
There is plenty of literature about how to get started with your startup. Here is a Must-Read for anyone who is actually thinking about it: Startup Playbook by Sam Altman<\/a>.<\/p>\nAfterward, we sat down and enjoyed a wonderful cold beer in the Coworking space WeWork, where we stayed a bit longer, till we finally had to leave, and the evening celebration got started.<\/p>\n
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The Sum Up<\/h2>\n So what do we take away from this two wonderful workshop-days? \nFirst of all, we gathered a lot of insights when it comes to founding, depending on what product you work on. Secondly, we developed an idea that we might pursue in the close future. Thirdly the EXXETA team managed to pack our bags with the right tools to work on further ideas, what we\u2019re going to try out at the next hackathon or other future projects. Last but not least, we got a glimpse of the Berlin startup ecosystem and found a lot of new friends \u2013 all of us were purely amazed! We, the team Billige Pl\u00e4tze, had a very fruitful, intense and important time with each other, bringing us together more and more. Who knows what maybe getting started thanks to this experience…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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