build a culture that outsmarts perfectionism by seppo helava - the lean startup conference 12/10/14
DESCRIPTION
The build-measure-learn loop is often accompanied by the frustration-confusion-failure cycle. In other words, implementing Lean Startup methods is hard--particularly when your experiments invalidate a lot of your ideas. In this talk, Seppo Helava, founder at Nonsense Industry, teaches us how he's led his team to overcome perfectionism and become more comfortable with grey areas and failure.TRANSCRIPT
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Build a Culture That Outsmarts PerfectionismBy changing three things about how you lead your team
Seppo Helava
Co-Founder, Wonderspark
@seppohelava
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The Team
Build
Me
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The Team
Build
Me
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Provide
Extreme
Focus
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Distribute
Authority
Manager
Individual IndividualIndividual
What
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Project Weeks
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The Team
Build
Me
Scope Work Correctly
Team Owns Decisions
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Be NiceThe cost of iterating quickly is failure. Pay it gladly.
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15x improvement on D1 Retention
10x improvement on daily per-user monetization
The most energized, passionate team
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Provide Extreme Focus
Distribute Authority
Be Nice
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Q&A