Episode #7 - a culture called The Lean Startup with Bob van Luijt (26m)

The Lean Startup, a methodology for developing products and businesses using short cycles of build-measure-learn to continuously improve. That's probably the crispiest definition one can provide but what impact does this have on products, on businesses, and more so on the culture of an organisation? A startup may embrace this methodology on day one of its conception and not even realise how its culture gets moulded by it, however more mature organisations who wish to realise the benefits of this methodology do witness a cultural change, sometimes not very successful ones. So it only seemed fair to speak with someone like Bob van Luijt, the CEO & Co-founder of SeMI Technologies, who's witnessed this multiple times. His current startup provides a solution called Weaviate which is a Semantic Search Engine with built-in Machine Learning to search through Unstructured Data and this is used by huge organisations for building, for example - their Knowledge Graphs. It was fascinating for me to understand from him how one can balance out cultural differences when working in a space like his and hopefully you and find it just as intersting as I did. I'm your host Vishal Prasad and this is EnterpriseJoy, educating organisations to be awesome! Interesting bits and pieces: 00:02:00 - Effect of Lean Startup on Bob's initiatives 00:04:18 - Enablers for Lean Startup 00:06:13 - Lean Startup moulding organisation's culture 00:10:08 - Minimum Viable Product (MVP) 00:12:40 - The complexity with Build-Measure-Learn 00:16:23 - Our favourite MVP stories 00:20:14 - Working with user experience 00:21:41 - Listening as a culture If you like what you hear then do subscribe to this podcast for more of EnterpriseJoy and you can access the complete uncut ad-free episodes by becoming our patron on https://www.patreon.com/enterprisejoy Host: Vishal Prasad (www.enterprisejoy.com) Guest: Bob van Luijt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobvanluijt/) References: The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup The Four Steps to the Epiphany, by Steve Blank: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762542.The_Four_Steps_to_the_Epiphany Diffusion of Innovations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations Disruption Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation You can also listen to this episode on; EnterpriseJoy Podcast: www.enterprisejoy.com  Anchor: https://anchor.fm/enterprisejoy  Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprisejoy/id1519016078  Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yNmJjNTBmNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1qUTug6CiY5BOUrlfakhQM  Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1519016078/enterprisejoy  Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/enterprisejoy  RadioPublic: https://radiopublic.com/enterprisejoy-6V3e4X  Castro: https://castro.fm/podcast/ca896101-d0a0-4a09-8b95-d3e383e90ec2  Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/87pjxr8j  Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/enterprisejoy  TuneIn Radio: http://tun.in/pjUBP  Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id3021763?country=us  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_tojwmQMreUzPLiqEE0Upu_sOHLGR4ZN You can also enjoy this Podcast on your Amazon Echo & Alexa Devices via TuneIn Radio; just say "Alexa, play the EnterpriseJoy Podcast".