Rome wasn't built in a day but your next startup might be
Monday, November 10, 2025, 10:00 AM CET – 5:00 PM CET
Rome · Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy
Hosted by Adam Berk
🔥 STOP GUESSING. START VALIDATING. 🔥 Are you an early-stage founder tired of building products nobody wants? Join our intensive one-day workshop designed to kill bad ideas fast and find your path to Product-Market Fit! The Resilient Founder: Validate Your Way to Product-Market Fit 💡 MORNING SESSION: Problem-Solution Fit (Lean Canvas Deep Dive) We focus on asking the right questions, not just building. 9:00 AM: Welcome & Setting the Stage Defining the difference between a "good idea" and a validated opportunity. 9:30 AM: Identifying the Real Problem CRITICAL FOCUS: Techniques for finding unmet needs and structuring effective customer problem interviews (The Five Whys). 10:45 AM: Hands-on Lean Canvas Construction Map your idea, focusing intensely on the Problem, Customer Segments, and Unique Value Proposition (UVP) blocks. (Credit: Ash Maurya) 🛠️ AFTERNOON SESSION: Assumptions & Validation (Build-Measure-Learn) Learn to test your business model before you waste time or money. 1:00 PM: Assumptions Mapping Identify your biggest risks across Desirability, Viability, Feasibility, and Adaptability. Find your single riskiest assumption. (Credit: David Bland) 1:45 PM: Designing a Lean Test Hands-on session building experiments using the Build-Measure-Learn loop. (Credit: Eric Ries) 3:15 PM: Experimentation Toolkit & Execution Plan Review low-fidelity tactics (Smoke Tests, Concierge MVPs). We help you develop scripts to find your first 10 customers. 🚀 TOOLS & SUPPORT You won't leave empty-handed—or unsupported. Mentorship: Dedicated mentors available on-site and remotely for personalized guidance. Connect with experts like superme.ai/aberk (and others) for follow-up support. Build Tools: Learn to use lovable.dev to rapidly launch: Validation Landing Pages (Smoke Tests) Low-Fidelity Experiments The beginning of your full application! Action Item: Every team leaves with a completed Lean Canvas, their Riskiest Assumption identified, and a concrete, immediate action plan for their first customer experiment. LeanStartup #FounderLife #StartupWorkshop #MVPHacks #ProductManagement #Validation