Just as you don’t need to predict the future to put yourself there when it starts, it’s not enough to put yourself in the right place at the right time – you have to make the future happen.
Leancamp was at the beginning of two strands of thought-leadership in Entrepreneurship, the Lean UX movement, and the connection between Customer Development and Business Model Innovation. Did Leancamp happen to be in the right place, or did the Leancamp participants make the future happen?
Many people think of futuristic technology starting somewhere, like MIT or the military, and rippling out to the rest of us over time. But the reality is that there are many of these centres, like raindrops in a pond, and the flowing out is more a function of human interaction than time.
Technologies that fail to be distributed can’t become the future. The ones that do usually end up being repurposed and combined with other technology and human endeavours. Interesting things happen when the different ripples meet.
Last year, connecting Lean, Agile and Design at Leancamp led to some useful tools for entrepreneurs around the world. This January, we’re connecting to other ripples again – toFashion, Architecture, Science and an entrepreneurship method called Effectuation. When you consider the commonalities around working in market uncertainty and figuring out what to make before it exists, you can start to see the potential.
I’ll only make one prediction though – going Leancamp will put you in the right place at the right time. For what? That part’s up to you.
Join us at the next Leancamp here.
Originally posted on Leancamp.
I’m a new parent, and prioritising my attention on our new rhythms as a family.
Work-wise, I’m trekking along at a cozy pace, doing stuff that doesn’t require meetings :)
I have a few non-exec/advisory roles for engineering edu programs. I’m also having fun making a few apps, going deep with zero-knowledge cryptography, and have learned to be a pretty good LLM prompt engineer.
In the past, I've designed peer-learning programs for Oxford, UCL, Techstars, Microsoft Ventures, The Royal Academy Of Engineering, and Kernel, careering from startups to humanitech and engineering. I also played a role in starting the Lean Startup methodology, and the European startup ecosystem. You can read about this here.
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