The Lean Explorers Club for Service Providers
Become an individual or organisational member to offer your services to startups around the world in the Lean Explorers Club through the Lean Explorers Marketplace.
We help startups (and service providers) find success!
What is the Lean Explorers Club?
How does it work?
The Lean Explorers Club has been designed to address problems startups, investors and the wider 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 investors may face finding and seeing which startups are persisting and making real progress through data-driven evidence in their search for a desirable, feasible and viable business
- Difficulties entrepreneurs face finding funding for validated business models
- Difficulties service providers face finding startups to offer their services to
The Lean Explorers Club supports startup explorers to use the quickest and cheapest experiments to find a desirable, feasible and viable new business. 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
- Open to service providers who can offer guidance and support to startups
- Offers investors visibility about startups investment readiness and access to early stage investment opportunities
Why the exploration metaphor?
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 startups understand what needs to be done and why.
What is the Lean Explorers Club Marketplace?
What is Lean Business Exploration?
This provides an opportunity for individual and organisational service providers who are aligned with Lean Startup and Customer Development principles to offer their services to Startup Exploration teams, as:
Guides who can provide direction and guidance with some of the tasks that Explorers need to undertake to effectively search for and validate their business model. For example, support with writing hypotheses and designing experiments.
Sherpas who undertake the work with Explorers. For example, this might be helping startups build or run their experiments, from interviews to web pages, and low or high fidelity product MVPs.
Organisational Service Providers who are not directly involved in the startup’s exploration but may be hired to undertake piece of work aligned with the principles and practices of Lean Business Exploration.
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.
Lean Business Exploration is definitely not about encouraging Lean Explorers to start with product/service development, marketing, sales or PR. It is about focusing on validating business model hypotheses as quickly and cheaply as possible (and if not, pivoting).
Why choose the Lean Explorers Club?
Join a global community of service providers, investors, and Startup Explorers around the world searching for desirable, feasible and viable businesses
Access to the global Lean Explorers Club Marketplace to offer your services as a Guide or Sherpa, or external service provider.
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 Marketplace offer to Service Providers?
Full membership of the Lean Explorers Club
Service Provider profile in the Lean Explorers Club Marketplace to promote your services to Startup Exploration teams
Access to Lean Explorers Club Service Providers forum
Fundamentals of Lean Business Exploration Masterclass – 4 big ideas for startup success!
Startup Warnings Masterclass – How to avoid startups becoming zombies!
Lean Business Exploration Advanced Topics Masterclass – Advanced tips and techniques
Certified Lean Service Provider status after successful completion of online training and quizzes
Easy billing solutions, so you don’t have to worry about setting up your own billing.
Get Started
Take your first steps to offer your services to startup exploration teams in the Lean Explorers Club Marketplace!
An Individual Service Provider Membership provides an opportunity for individuals to offer their services or products in the LEC Marketplace to help Startup Exploration teams search for and validate their business ideas.
The membership includes mandatory online training in the fundamentals of Lean Startup and Customer Development approaches. Completion of the three Masterclass training webinars and quizzes is required for you to be certified as a Lean Business Exploration Service Provider in the LEC marketplace.
An Organisational Service Provider Membership provides an opportunity for organisations to offer their services or products in the LEC Marketplace to help Startup Exploration teams search for and validate their business ideas.
The membership includes five individual memberships for staff from your organisation. Mandatory online training is offered to the designated staff within your organisation in the fundamentals of Lean Startup and Customer Development approaches. Completion of the three Masterclass training webinars and quizzes is required for them to be certified as a Lean Business Exploration Service Provider in the LEC marketplace. 5
Individual Service Provider
Membership
Offer your individual services in the Lean Explorers Club Marketplace
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One full membership of the Lean Explorers Club
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Service Provider Profile in the LEC Marketplace
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3 x Masterclass training webinars
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Access to LEC Service Provider Forum
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Lean Business Exploration Certified Status
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30 Day Money-Back Guarantee
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Limited time 25% discount with code PROVIDER25
Organisational Service Provider Membership
Offer your organisation's services in the Lean Explorers Club Marketplace-
Includes five individual memberships
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Service Provider Profile in the LEC Marketplace
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3 x Masterclass training webinars
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Access to LEC Service Provider Forum
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Lean Business Exploration Certified Status
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30 Day Money-Back Guarantee
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Limited time 25% discount with code PROVIDER25
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 the startup team members, service providers and potential investors are aligned with the approach to searching for and validating a business idea.
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.
No problem, we guide and support Startup Exploration teams to find and validate a business that hopefully will incorporate their existing product or service or a variation of it.
Yes, absolutely, startup teams maintain ownership and control over all their IP and data and can choose who their share their information with.
Yes, we take a XX% commission on transactions within the Lean Explorers Club Marketplace to support the operation of the accelerator.
If you have any more questions you can contact the Lean Explorers Club at [email protected]
