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Introductions

@AutismPodcast | MichaelBoll.me@misterdubyah | about.me/Robb.Willett

About Robb

Husband(Business Development, Marketing, Continuous

Improvement Consultancy)

Did Business-y Stuff Do Teach-y Stuff

Humanities and PE, Help out with Tech Stuff


About Michael

PodcasterTech Coach

Co-Founder

Father to typical and

special needs kids

Co-Founder


Ice Breaker Activity

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What makes you happy?

What is your favorite childhood book?

If you were a superhero, which one would you be?

If you were a *varient* of a *noun,* what would you be?

Tell me a story of one of your scars?

What is the origin of your name?

Where is your favorite place in Hong Kong?

Beach / Mountain / River / Plains / AC’d Apartment?

What if schools started doing ________? What if they completely abolished ________?


Housekeeping


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The Plan

Take your idea and run it through a “Startup” process


Take Aways• Your Idea

• The Why

• Your Mission

• Design and Development

• MVP

• Marketing

• Resistance

• Failures and Successes

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Building Your Presentation

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Buddy Up!


What Is Your Idea?


Robb’s Idea

Inventors and Entrepreneurs


Robb’s Idea


Take TWO Minutes To List Your Ideas


Need to Adopt an Idea?• New discipline system

• New writing program

• Move to standards based education

• Add a SPED program

• Add an ESOL program

• Take your school to Google Apps

• Adopt a new LMS platform

• Start a restorative justice program

• Bring differentiation to your school

• Take your school to full inclusion

• Increase homework turn in

• Digital badges across the curriculum

• Starting a podcast

• Running a book study

• Starting a new sport at your school

• Making your sport more popular


Start With The Why Simon Sinek

The Golden Circle

The Golden CircleWhat Every organization on the planet knows WHAT they do. These are products they sell or the services they offer.


How Some organizations know HOW they do it. These are the things that make them special or set them apart from their competition.


How Some organizations know HOW they do it. These are the things that make them special or set them apart from their competition.

Why Very few organizations know WHY they do what they do. WHY is not about making money. That’s a result. It’s a purpose, cause or belief. It’s the very reason your organization exists.

The Golden Circle


My Whys


Robb’s Why


What Is Your Why?


Your Mission


Why Have A Mission Statement

• Helps with focus

• Helps encourage others to join you

• Helps overcome the dips

• Helps you measure your effort


My Mission Statements• Online learning center for

teachers

• Audio professional development for teachers

• Take students to the next presentation level

• Bring inclusion to China

• Connect teachers with each other through professional development


Robb’s Mission


Your Mission

What Is Your Mission?


Sample Mission StatementsMISSION STATEMENTS FROM TOP NONPROFITS

• TED: Spreading Ideas. (2 words)

• Smithsonian: The increase and diffusion of knowledge. (6 words)

• USO lifts the spirits of America’s troops and their families. (9 words)

• Livestrong: To inspire and empower people affected by cancer. (8)

• Invisible Children: To bring a permanent end to LRA atrocities. (8)

• The Humane Society: Celebrating Animals, Confronting Cruelty. (4)

• Wounded Warrior Project: To honor and empower wounded warriors. (6)

• Oxfam: To create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice. (10)

• Best Friends Animal Society: A better world through kindness to animals. (7)

• CARE: To serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. (12)

• The Nature Conservancy: To conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. (11)

• JDRF: To find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. (14)

• Environmental Defense Fund: To preserve the natural systems on which all life depends. (10)

• Public Broadcasting System (PBS): To create content that educates, informs and inspires. (8)

• National Wildlife Federation: Inspiring Americans to protect wildlife for our children’s future. (9)

• American Heart Association: To build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. (10)

• Heifer International: To work with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the Earth. (14)


Design and developmentHow are you going to make it happen?


The Book

Learning a Startup MentalityVISION • Start

• Entrepreneurial Management • Goal: Find a product that customers will like

• Define • What is a startup? • Sustaining Innovation vs Disruptive Innovation

• Learn • Validated Learning

• Value of a network • Metcalf’s Law: value of a network as a whole is

proportional to the square of the number of participants

• Validated learning vs. Vanity Metrics • Value of Zero • What are you trying to learn? • Value Creation vs Waste

• Experiment • Customer Insight • Essential Unit of Progress: Validated Learning • Scientific Method • Entrepreneurial Assumptions

• Value Hypothesis vs Growth Hypothesis • Customer Identification

• How to find ‘Early Adopters’

• STEER • Leap

• Build - Measure - Learn Feedback Loop • Leap of Faith Assumptions • Innovation Accounting • Genchi Gembutsu • Customer Archetype • Analysis Paralysis • Strategy - Based Assumptions

• Test • MVP: Minimum Viable Product

• Measure • 3 Steps of Innovation Accounting

• MVP • Tune • Pivot

• Optimization Vs Learning • Actionable Metrics Vs Vanity Metrics • Split Test Experimentation • Kanban: Capacity Restraint • 3 A’s of Metrics

• Pivot (or Persevere) • What is a Pivot? • “Pivot or Persevere” meeting • Zoom-in Pivot, Zoom-out Pivot, Customer Segment Pivot,

Customer Need Pivot, Platform Pivot, Platform Architecture Pivot, Value Capture Pivot, Engine of Growth Pivot, Channel Pivot, Technology Pivot

ACCELLERATE

MVP in 3 Words

1. Donuts - What’s your “Sad Donut?”

2.Walls - Check your “Wall.”

… that aren’t “Minimum Viable Product…”

Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

What can you put together quickly, easily, and cheaply that will test out your core idea?

Good Ideas Require Evolution

What if …

“Remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.”

Eric Ries, The Lean Startup

Get rid of the bells and whistles

Shaving

ISR Example

Your TurnWhat is your MVP?

MVP = Good Idea?

Oftentimes

Scientific Method

Create Hypothesis

Make Prediction

Test Your Prediction

Adjust

Determine what assumptions you need to test

ISR Example

Build - Measure - Learn

MVP

TestAdjust


Picking the teamSupport and foot soldiers


Possible Roles

• Project manager/organizer

• Marketing/presentation

• System and process design

• Leader

• Other?


My Team


Podcast Team ExampleChoice


SHINE Academy

Team


Concordia PDLess choice


Robb’s Team


Pick Your Team Members

• Project manager/organizer

• Marketing/presentation

• System and process design

• Leader

• Other?

Your Turn


Design and Development TipsFor Free!


Raise right hand and say “I will always work to

reduce friction”


Always think scaleOr you may regret it…


How We Scale(ed)


MarketingI don’t like this part


What Is Your Story?


My StoriesWhat I hope people will tell


My Stories


Robb’s Story

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Find Early Adopters

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Adopter Curve


Publicize Adopters


Robb’s Early Adopters


The Resistance


Embrace The Resistance

ResistorYou


Outside ResistanceChange! AHHH!


Robb’s Resistance


Failures and Successes


#Fail #Success


Keeping Organized And On Track Do you need a system or person?


Project management tools• Asana

• Trello

• Daily Todo

• Orchestra

• Wunderlist

• Top five from lifehacker.com

• IPD lesson on to do tools

http://lifehacker.com/5924093/five-best-to-do-list-managers

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