As well received presenters at the monthly Lean Startup Sydney meetup Tomaj Bayat and Fernando Parra have proven their experience and expertise in applying Customer Development and Lean Startup methodologies. Their workshops - as structured guidance to get out of the office, speak to your potential customers, take the risk out of your idea and validate your market - will be one of the best investments in your startup. Do this early!

Paul Krajewski Lean Startup Sydney organiser and Co-Director of Founder Institute Sydney

Fernando and I are friends since 2013 and, although he doesn't pursue self-promotion and often flies under the radar, I can say with confidence that he's a tough-leader that is going to have a big impact in the Australian startup community. I'm always excited to hear about and support his initiatives to raise the maturity of his local startup ecosystem; first in Argentina, where we met, and now in Sydney.

Ash Maurya Creator of the Lean Canvas and WSJ bestselling author of Running Lean and Scaling Lean

Sydney is a high growth eco-system, even compared to established hubs such as Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv, but we need more founders using Lean Startup to innovate, test and validate their ideas.

Henry Weaver Head of Sponsor and Member Relations at Fishburners

We strongly encourage the early stage founders that we back to follow Lean Startup principles. If new startups applied the methodology correctly, we’d have even greater startup success in Australia.

Garry Visontay General Partner at Right Click Capital