On this episode of The Small Business Radio Show…
Listen to “#595 The Lean Startup is Back During the COVID-19 Pandemic” on Spreaker.
SEGMENT 1, starting at 0:00: Steve Blank, The Father of Modern Entrepreneurship. Almost 10 years ago, the Lean Startup movement was born. After the Great Recessions, entrepreneurs found a better way to launch a business without tons of money. Steve is here to explain the concepts of the Lean Startup and how it can help today’s businesses through the pandemic.
SEGMENT 2, starting at 18:15: Roland Faunte, up-and-coming musician. Millions of people everyday attempt to get into music, and be the next big superstar. So how do you actually become financially successful in the music industry and how has COVID 19 affected that process? Roland is here to share his experience.
SEGMENT 3, starting at 37:00: Raju Vegesna, Chief Evangelist at Zoho. With more people working from home, business and personal lives are getting merged more than ever. This is also pushing the boundaries of what level of online privacy can be expected by employees and consumers. Raju is here to help us understand how to better manage our privacy online.
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Read more about each segment below.
Segment 1: Steve Blank is the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship. Credited with launching the Lean Startup movement, he’s changed how startups are built; how entrepreneurship is taught; how science is commercialized, and how companies and the government innovate. Entrepreneur-turned-educator, Steve is the author of “The Four Steps to the Epiphany”, “The Startup Owner’s Manual” — and his May 2013 Harvard Business Review cover story defined the Lean Startup movement. Steve blogs at www.steveblank.com.
1:30 – What was the beginning of the Lean Startup Movement and how did it gain momentum?
4:00 – The one key insight that kicked off the Lean Startup Movement.
7:00 – The most efficient way to start your business.
9:00 – How the concept of a minimum viable product (MVP) was a total gamechanger for startups.
11:15 – What has the pandemic’s effect been for small business owners? How are the concepts of Lean relevant now?
13:00 – Advice for entrepreneurs for how to think about new opportunities for their business during this time.
Segment 2: Roland Faunte is an up-and-coming musician based in Los Angeles who writes intensely personal cinematic pop music. His first album, Sewing Kit, was created as an audible memory of his first major episode of bipolar depression. It has been streamed over 5 million times across all platforms. You can follow him on Spotify and Instagram.
18:15 – What is this life in the time of coronavirus like for you as a musician?
20:00 – How did you get started as a musician?
21:15 – When did music become your full time career?
22:45 – Did you set out to be an advocate for mental health through your music?
24:45 – How did you get to the other side of your depression?
27:30 – How much effort did you put into that debut album, sewing kit, and how does it feel to work towards something that didn’t have a guarantee to pay out?
30:45 – What’s the secret to converting streams of your music into fans? And how is making music similar to running a small business?
34:00 – Where can people follow your music? What’s next for you?
Segment 3: Raju Vegesna is the Chief Evangelist at Zoho.
37:00 – How do you define privacy when it comes to the work place?
40:15 – In what ways are companies abusing their users’ privacy?
42:15 – The problem is getting worse; you must have policies in place.
44:00 – Should anyone expect privacy or is it something that we give up when we use electronic tools and we just must expect none?
45:45 – Do consumers or employees even understand their privacy rights or they just check the box when using the app and that’s it?
48:00 – What are the steps that Zoho has taken to ensure consumer privacy and what are Zoho’s promises to customers?
51:00 – Information available from Zoho tracking the COVID-19 pandemic.
