These are my slides from my Creating a Data-Driven Startup presentation at the MIT Startup Bootcamp in Cambridge, MA (September 11, 2010).
I was lucky enough to share the stage that day with an amazing set of startup founders: Reddit, Wufoo, 3com, GitHub, A123 Systems, WePay, & more.
I hope you find this presentation useful, please leave a comment if you do.
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David
Very interesting points, very well presented – the format made your points extremely easy to grok. Now I have a question:
I’ve been working at coming up with ideas for a web based start-up. I’ve got plenty of ideas but not a clue as to which one people will really care about – so I’m feeling kind of stuck.
Would you care to write a blog post addressing the ‘start-up wannabe tribe’ – helping us by framing a step-by-step process to generate & test start-up ideas using Performable?
Thanks !
Ian,
Perfect timing. I’m working on a presentation for a talk this week about Product Hypothesis testing, aka How to Test if anyone Cares that I think will be helpful.
Best,
David
That sounds like a must see David. Where are you giving the talk? Anywhere in New England?
Thanks Bryan. Nice to meet you!
I will be giving two talks this weeks both of them at Future M events. I’ll post about those tonight.
Thanks again!
Excellent – looking forward to that David
Great preso, love the bluntness and reads very well without narration. *Especially* love #JFDI. I bet this came off well as the last preso of the event – a call to action.
Great deck David, i like the no-bs approach
Also looking for creative way to test customer/audience interest especially when you don’t have yet the presence to easily and quickly reach out to them.
Interesting presentation. Makes me want to check out Performable. Let’s see if I go down the funnel
Also appreciated the directness of the presentation. Looking forward to your post on Product Hypothesis testing.
David, my apologies but is the link broken? Trying to check out the slides and not resolving on LI or http://davidcancel.com/.
thanks,
Adam
Hey Adam,
Which link are you referring to? The slides should be on Slideshare. Is LI LinkedIn?
David
Hi David,
Finally, a presentation stripped of its “startup machismo” and plainly tells it like it is. Thanks, this was much needed …
Peter
Thank you for this valuable presentation. Actually it’s not visible on your website, I had to search it on SlideShare.
Now, I’ll stop reading blogs/sites (incl. TC) and #JFDI !
All the best,
Salah
PS: Here is the link to your presentation for other visitors who couldn’t see it neither :
http://www.slideshare.net/dcancel/creating-a-datadriven-startup
Salah,
Thanks for the note. Not sure why the embed isn’t working for you, I’ll look into it.
Cheers,
David
Wow. I’m blown away. I’m working on a new startup and my good friend Dan Martell (of Flowtown) turned me on to this post (the older version of it….so I read both). It completely makes sense and will save me hours of wasted time.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I can’t wait to apply this in my startup. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Clay,
Nice to meet any friend of Dan’s, he’s a great guy.
Thanks for stopping by and for the great feedback.
Cheers,
David
can you please provide an outside link to the presentation, it just won’t load.. my flash player seems ok..
Thanks,
by the way, loved the post Best Startup Lessons of 2010..
Omri,
Thanks for stopping by and the comment!
Here’ a link to the original on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/dcancel/creating-a-datadriven-startup
Cheers,
David