Lean startup training in TorontoTest the bet before you fund it.
A lean startup and product sprint for Toronto teams who need a cheap test, real evidence and a decision to kill, pivot or scale.
- Toronto, in person or hybrid
Toronto
Toronto teams with a live bet and a sponsor who can stop it
Inkeros, a Canadian company, used a two-day Collective Campus lean design sprint in Toronto when stakeholders were pulling toward different bets. The point was to choose a direction with evidence, not to average the opinions in the room.
We run that kind of sprint in Toronto, at your office or a room in the city, or hybrid if a sponsor joins from elsewhere. You bring the idea. You leave with a test that fits the resources you already have.
- Inkeros used a two-day Collective Campus lean design sprint in Toronto to choose a direction instead of committing to the wrong one.
- Your session uses that format on a bet you bring, in person or hybrid.
- For innovation, venture and product teams, plus the sponsor who has to fund or stop the work.
- You leave with a kill, pivot or scale call.
The problem
Big bets. Long roadmaps. No idea if it'll work.
Betting blind
Months of build committed before a single customer has weighed in.
Sunk-cost creep
Nobody wants to kill the project everyone's already spent on.
Feedback too late
You only find out it missed once it's shipped, the most expensive time to learn.
What you'll walk away with
By the end of the sprint, your team will have
- Your riskiest assumptions surfaced and ranked
- An MVP or prototype built to test the biggest one
- Real signal from real customers, not internal opinion
- A clear go / pivot / kill decision, backed by evidence
- An experiment backlog and a Build-Measure-Learn cadence to keep running
What we cover
The shape of the sprint
- 01
Map the assumptions
Everything that has to be true for the idea to work.
- 02
Find the riskiest
Rank by impact × uncertainty, test the one that could sink you first.
- 03
Design the test
The smallest experiment that gives a real answer.
- 04
Build the minimum
Just enough to learn, nothing more.
- 05
Run it & decide
Get it in front of customers, read the signal, make the call.
Who it's for
Who should be in the room
Product teams
Squads with a big feature or bet they haven't validated.
Founders & intrapreneurs
Anyone about to sink real money into an unproven idea.
Innovation units
Teams who need to show evidence, not just activity.
Toronto
Questions about running this in Toronto
Where in Toronto can the product sprint sit?
At your Toronto office or a room in the city, or hybrid when a sponsor joins from elsewhere. Inkeros used a two-day sprint in Toronto. Yours is on the bet you bring.
Who brings the live bet into a Toronto sprint?
Innovation, venture and product teams in Toronto who have a live bet, and the sponsor who can kill it. Bring your own idea. We will not use a case study.
What do we need to book a Toronto product sprint?
Use the contact form. Tell us the bet, who must be in the room and whether you need one day or a longer sprint.
Will the Toronto day be a lecture on startups?
No. You leave with a test you can run with what you already have, and criteria the room agrees on.
our case studies
Inkeros
Two-day lean design sprint in Toronto. The team left with one prioritised, evidence-backed direction.
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AGL
Full-day lean startup training for the retail team, covering the lean canvas, assumptions and prototypes.
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Metlife
Ads and landing pages tested the customer, the problem and the business model. MetLife pivoted on that evidence.
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NPS Medicinewise
One-day rapid prototyping course for over 30 people, using lean startup methods.
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Sportsbet
One-day lean startup workshop for a cross-functional team with no startup background. Assumptions, prototypes, and a pivot or proceed call.
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Standard Chartered
Half-day lean startup course for a Hong Kong team, on using it inside a regulated bank.
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Water Corporation
Two-day workshop for the product and innovation team on lean startup in a regulated public body.
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Testimonials
What teams say afterwards
“The effects of the lean startup bootcamp that Sportsbet employees took part in are still being felt over a year later. Bootcamp participants are questioning things, running lean experiments where they're not sure of the answers and moving faster to get better results.”
“CC's team learned from real-time analytics and made changes accordingly in order to help us maximise learnings and get closer to identifying what the market wants before investing time and money building out and executing on a business case.”
“Steve is an engaging presenter with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the Lean Startup method.”
Facilitator
Steve Glaveski
Founder of Collective Campus, 2× Wiley author and HBR contributor. Steve has incubated 100+ startups and shaped the innovation strategies of 100+ global corporations, and he runs these sprints himself.
Ready to back the right bet?
Tell us the idea, we'll shape a sprint around it.