Product & Design, Lean Startup

I'm a guest lecturer in Steve Blanks class at Berkeley, and a mentor to his Stanford Lean LaunchPad class. I've been applying the Lean Startup methodology and Customer Development practices in my startups for the past 5 years - essentially since I first heard Eric Ries give his talk at the Web 2.0 conference in 08'. I've also had the pleasure of giving talks around the world on Lean Product Development and Customer Development. Eric is a formal advisor to Clarity, so we get to talk often about how we're doing :)

I've helped hundreds of companies dial in on a true MVP - allowing them to get in front of their market and validate ideas with the only population that matters - actual customers. We'll explore options that will get you in front of your audience and demonstrating the value your product of service attempts to deliver quickly and simply.

My patents are in technology used by NFL, NBA, and US Olympic Teams. I'll help you design and refine your hardware and software products with rapid prototyping and market testing.

A clean website or app providing a focused user experience is the best way to kick off an idea. With an opinionated user flow, you decide how people should interact with your service. I'm here to facilitate and crystalize your vision and value proposition. Then, I can build your app with your input every step of the way.

Detailed, hands on 'how-to's' to get the most out of team brainstorming. This is a workshop that I have taught at UX Singapore, General Assembly and many other places. It gets results instantly to solve for feature, product and idea freeze.

Every organization has different needs - make sure your outsourced engagement model fits you perfectly. I've seen so many clients get frustrated with equally great teams - usually it's because the engagement isn't the right fit for the clients needs (or the vendors skills). Call me and we can figure out how to structure your project to best meet your budget, timeline, skills, and management needs.

I am a mentor at 500Startups, Techstars, and SXSW. I have built and sold several companies, and helped hundreds of founders build their ideas and team. I advise multiple early-stage companies on strategies and tactics for community cultivation and customer development to help them: discover, welcome, acquire and retain an active community of customers; and transform customer support and social engagement into a source of customer evangelism.

Founded a recruitment platform application that was incubated, designed and coded in 6 months for prototyping. Developed strategy, business model, product features & benefits and messaging plan for under $30K.

Do you struggle to actually practice lean startup and customer development methodology? Are you unsure when to follow your analytics and when to go off of individual customer comments or other qualitative data? I'm here to help. I can help you write your customer development interview scripts as well as think about your high level strategy to incorporate lean into your business from analytics to product plans to understanding user churn and improving your onboarding flow. I've been practicing lean in venture backed startups as an employee and consultant for the past 10 years including running product at KISSmetrics. I've also been a mentor at over a dozen Lean Startup Machines and spoken about customer development at 500 Startups, the Startup Leadership Program, and various product meetups . If you need advice on customer development, lean startups and how you can *actually do these things* to help improve your business, I can help you.

I also help companies to be more agile and transcend into a great ecosystem. Take what it works with startups and adapt the culture into established companies and businesses.

Bootstrapped GoFastCab to launch service in cities across the US, forming partnerships and acquiring hundreds of thousands of users; sold to $100M+ national transportation firm. Currently advising and consulting NYC startups on everything from growth strategy/tactics to fundraising (pitch decks). Connections to 60+ early stage VCs / angels and 100s of founders.

Helping you structurally think through testing-first approach before you plan to build a feature or a company. Embracing lean start up approach, I'll guide you on how you can save 90% of time or effort when testing your ideas.

Remix Design has been a pioneer in bringing the innovations of Lean and Agile into the creative process, and changing the way that creative agencies operate in the startup world. Learn all the secrets of this process, and how your company can learn to produce high-quality creative work, efficiently and cost-effectively.