Salim Virani

Unconference

Decision Hacks

Startups succeed at innovation because of their speed and agility, and this boils down to how startup founders make decisions.

Based on the book Decision Hacks, which comes from in-depth experience in 25+ startup accelerators and thousands of startup investments, this workshop throws you into a roller-coaster of situations so you're equipped to charge in and grow at startup speed:

A follow on from Salim's talk from the previous day.

Talk

Decision Hacks

Startups succeed at innovation because of their speed and agility, and this boils down to how startup founders make decisions.

This talk is a distilled version of the workshop...

Based on the book Decision Hacks, which comes from in-depth experience in 25+ startup accelerators and thousands of startup investments, this talk makes sure you're equipped to charge in and grow at startup speed:

• When being fast is better than being right
• Choosing your next experiments based on what information is worth collecting
• Managing unpredictable projects
• Interpreting (imperfect) data
• Time management in fast-changing environments
• Making decisions with a team, and helping your team shift to evidence-based decision making
• Mental hygiene
• Knowing when to focus and when to explore

About Salim Virani

Salim Virani is the creator of Source Institute - an organisation that's trying a bunch of ways to make startup education way better -- mainly by pioneering open, peer to peer, and contextually diverse techniques. We know that works there doesn't always work here. Source Institute now spans 4 continents, involves 40 leaders operating 5 projects -- educating thousands of founders.

Salim works to empower "unlikely" startup founders - like Roma people, African engineers -- and even Europeans. He is the head trainer for The Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation, which produced top-tier clean water, sanitation, education and agriculture startups. He's also managed to get himself into teaching at a few top-tier universities like Oxford and UCL.

Salim founded Leancamp, and is a partner at Founder Centric.