INESC TEC organises executive programme on lean startup with Silicon Valley coach

Build, measure and learn – this is the combination of words that best describes the lean startup thought born at Silicon Valley, a worldwide renowned innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the United States, which hosts some of the largest and most dynamic IT companies and technology-based startups.

It was precisely the Silicon Valley platform that INESC TEC, through its Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE), together with ANJE – National Association of Young Entrepreneurs, wanted to bring to Portugal, with a three-day hands-on programme (13, 14 and 15 November) on lean startups.

Led by Tristan Kromer, a lean startup coach at Silicon Valley who has already collaborated with Stanford Graduate School of Business, Fujitsu, Swisscom or Pitney Bowes, the workshop was attended by 24 participants from various organisations, such as Cerealis, Lipor or IBMC, or working on business creation projects.

The programme tried to demonstrate how lean startup principles can contribute to developing and testing, with less effort and more efficiency, the potential of validating a solution on the market, especially when these principles are applied to the process of developing a project in any organisation, regardless of its maturity or area of expertise.