The Lean Explorers Club for Startup Explorers
Quickly and cheaply find a desirable, feasible and viable new business!
We help startups find success!
What is the Lean Explorers Club?
How does it work?
The Lean Explorers Club has been designed to address problems entrepreneurs and the startup ecosystem face:
- Wasted time, effort and funding starting a business that won’t succeed
- Traditional startup accelerators that are one-size-fits-all, lack flexibility and not always based on evidence-based entrepreneurship
- Difficulties entrepreneurs face finding funding for validated business models
We support business explorers to use the quickest and cheapest experiments to find a desirable, feasible and viable new business. The Lean Explorers Club is an ‘Open Lean Accelerator’. By this we mean that it is:
- Open to everyone interested in using Lean Startup with Customer Development approaches to effectively and efficiently search for a business
- Always available as there are no fixed start or finish dates
- Individuals and teams can join when they wish, progress at their own pace and stay as long as they need
- Open to entrepreneurs and startups at any stage within their search for a business
- Offers access to potential equity funding for later stage (more expensive) lean experiments
Why the exploration metaphor?
What is Lean Business Exploration?
We believe that the search for and validation of a new business is more like a process of exploration than executing a known path. This means the team involved should be thought of as ‘Explorers’ rather than ‘Founders’ at least until they have found and validated a desirable, feasible and viable business model.
The Lean Explorers Club provides a process broken down into Stages, Explorations and Tasks to guide and support individuals and teams undertaking Startup Exploration. This ensures you understand what needs to be done and why.
By this we mean the efficient and effective search for a new business by running the quickest and lowest-cost experiments. This approach increases the chance of success and reduces waste from starting and growing an unproven business model that fails.
Why choose the Lean Explorers Club?
Quickly and cheaply test your business idea to increase your chance of success and reduce wasted time and money.
Join a community of Startup Explorers around the world searching for a desirable, feasible and viable business.
Lean Startup & Customer Development Approaches are being used by large corporations around the world and is mandated by the US Government for the commercialisaiton of science and health innovation.
What does the Lean Explorers Club offer?
For Explorers (Aka Founders)
Full membership of the Lean Explorers Club
Fortnightly Startup Exploration Webinar – interactive coaching and guidance sessions to help you develop hypotheses and run experiments to validate your business ideas.
Startup Fundamentals Masterclass – Four big ideas for startup success!
Startup Warnings Masterclass – How to avoid becoming a zombie startup!
Startup Advanced Topics Masterclass – Advanced tips and techniques.
Access to General Lean Explorers Club Forums – to ask questions and network with other Explorers
Access to the Lean Explorers Club Marketplace
For Startup Exploration (Aka Startups)
Access to Lean Business Exploration Guides and Checklists
1-on-1 Startup Coaching to help with completing checklists, hypothesis writing, experiment design etc (Limited time offer)
Exploration Coaching – Interactive group sessions to guide and support you with each Stage/Expedition/Task
Expedition Validation Check by Lean Explorers Club staff to validate progress before moving onto the next expedition (one included)
Stage Validation Check by Lean Explorers Club staff to validate progress before moving onto the next stage (one included)
Access to Lean Exploration Forums for each Stage/Expedition/Task – to network with other explorers and exploration teams
Investment Readiness Level Evaluation
Exposure to qualified Lean Business Exploration investors to fund expeditions and experiments
Get Started
Take your first steps on an expedition to validate your business idea! Become a Lean Explorer!
An Explorer Membership provides you with training in the fundamentals of Lean Startup and Customer Development approaches. It exposes you to the mindsets and outlook you’ll need as a Startup Explorer. It develops your capabilities as an entrepreneur and is required preparation for you to commence your first expedition.
A Startup Exploration provides the vehicle for searching for a business. This is where you get your hands dirty and embark on expeditions to quickly and cheaply find a desirable, feasible and viable business. We provide a structured process and coaching that maps the terrain out for you and your team.
Explorer Membership
Become a Member of the Lean Explorers Club-
Full membership of the Lean Explorers Club
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Fortnightly Startup Exploration webinar
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3 x Startup Masterclass sessions
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Access to LEC Community Forum
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Access to LEC Marketplace
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30 Day Money-Back Guarantee
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Limited time 25% discount with code EXPLORER25
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Startup Exploration*
Start searching for and validating a business!-
Exploration checklists and guides
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Startup Coaching (limited time offer)
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Exploration Coaching
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Access to LEC Exploration Forums
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Validation checks (1st included)
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Exposure to Investors
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30 Day Money-Back Guarantee
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Limited time 25% discount with code STARTUP25
Startup Exploration*
Start searching for and validating a business!-
Exploration checklists and guides
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Startup Coaching (limited time offer)
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Exploration Coaching
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Access to LEC Exploration Forums
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Validation checks (1st included)
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Exposure to Investors
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30 Day Money-Back Guarantee
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Limited time 25% discount with code STARTUP25
FAQs
Yes, part of the value that the Lean Explorers Club offers is the disciplined Lean Startup with Customer Development process to effectively and efficiently search for a business. This also ensures that all of your team members and potential investors are aligned with the approach to searching for and validating your business idea.
No problem, we’ll guide and support you to find and validate a business that hopefully will incorporate your product or service or a variation of it.
Exploration teams can be of any size and all have access to the Lean Explorers Club resources. However, only the founders able to participate in LEC coaching sessions.
Assuming a place is available you can start your startup exploration as soon as you wish and end whenever you wish. However, payments are non-refundable.
By lean (as in Lean Startup) we mean using the quickest and cheapest experiments to find a desirable, feasible and viable business to test your business model hypotheses.
Yes, absolutely, you maintain ownership and control over all your IP and data and you choose who you share your information with.
If you have any more questions you can contact the Lean Explorers Club at [email protected]
