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How To: Social Lean Canvas

By Toni Reid | October 20, 2017

So you want to start something that matters…?

The Social Lean Canvas is one of the key resources the Lifehack team uses and refers to in all of our work. If you’re not already using it we suggest you take …

How To: Budget For Your New Initiative

By Toni Reid | October 20, 2017

During Te Koānga (an accelerator programme we ran in 2015), the teams used this budget template to help track their initial setup costs and spending.

If you’re just starting some kind of social enterprise or initiative, you can use this …

Supporting good decision making in small teams

By Toni Reid | August 23, 2017

You’ve started a project! Nice work. But how do you continue well? How do you make sure your team are on the same page and aren’t making unfair or incorrect assumptions about each other?

This worksheet offers some thinking about …

Project Kitchens

By Toni Reid | July 27, 2017

Originally developed by Seb Paquet, Project Kitchens is a wonderful tool that can help propel early stage ideas into concrete next steps

The format brings together a small number of people who have projects they would like assistance with and …

Community Hackathon Manual

Lifehack Weekend Event: Manual

By Gina Rembe | July 19, 2017

This Weekend Event manual is a facilitation tool that can bring together a group of diverse humans to support local community projects. This structure aims to empower participants and project holders to demonstrate that everyone has skills and knowledge to …

MVP Design Ebook

Designing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

By Gina Rembe | May 26, 2015

Designing Technology products and services has come on leaps and bounds in the last 10 years.

Minimum Viable Products (MVP) were popularised by Lean Startup and other technology entrepreneurs, as a way to design and build products which weren’t a …

Free Resource - Experiments, Prototypes & MVP's

eBook: Experiments, Prototypes & MVP’s

By Gina Rembe | March 3, 2015

Experiments are a method to generate the currency of entrepreneurship – learning.

But how do they relate to Prototypes and MVP’s? Aren’t they the same thing? If they’re not, when would you use each of them? What does MVP even …

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Running Lean Startup Experiments

By Gina Rembe | February 10, 2015

Running Lean Startup Experiments from Lifehack HQ

 

Lean Startup Experiments are a method to generate the currency of Entrepreneurship – learning.

In this workshop, first presented at Live The Dream by Sam Rye (co-Lead at Lifehack), we’ll take you …

Value Proposition Design – Workshop Slides

By Gina Rembe | February 4, 2015

Value Proposition Design provides a set of tools and processes to systematically design and test value propositions and produce results. The Value Proposition Canvas is a tool that creates a simple and shared language to discuss value propositions across organisational …

Lifehack Labs 2014 – The Handbook

By Gina Rembe | January 12, 2015

The Lifehack Labs Handbook is now available for anyone, not just the participants of the Lifehack Labs 2014 programme.

50+ Best Web Tools For Social Ventures, Startups & Charities

By Gina Rembe | November 18, 2014

 

The Lifehack Top 50+ Tools for Social Entrepreneurs, Innovators and Charities is constantly evolving. Click on the image above to be transported to the latest line up of tools to help you be awesome online.…

Startup Tip Sheet

By Gina Rembe | August 9, 2014

Learn how to improve your startup’s chance of success

Too many startups fail. Some say as high as 90% of tech startups are dead within 2 years.

 

Here’s our guide to avoiding the early mistakes which could help you …