Not exact matches
This is the first thing we talk about in
Lean Startup because you can not do any of the techniques of
Lean Startup — the rapid experimentation, the scientific approach, the broad development — none of it
makes any sense and can't work unless you have a vision for what you are trying to accomplish.
Maintaining a
lean and streamlined
startup makes flexibility possible.
Different kinds of
startups need distinctive strategies to
make sales,
Lean Startup pioneer Steve Blank says.
It's because the
startups are doing something very new that
make them «
Lean»:
The small investments necessary to get a consumer internet
startup going enables
Lean VC's to
make lots of early bets and double - down when early results appear.
Therefore, our remaining challenges are how to
make them fail less — and how can we
make the
Lean LaunchPad approach relevant to the rest of the 99 percent of
startups.
They
made a good deal for us financially and supported our vision for the book, a book that would expand upon
Lean Startup and talk about
Lean Startup and how to apply it in industries and sectors beyond tech.
Fortunately the Theory of Constraints (and more recently Eric Reis's book «The
Lean Startup») gives us a great way to tell if you're working on the right thing:
Make a small change, measure whether the change results in any improvement (to the overall system, not just the specific function), and react accordingly.
The legal market — and future of our profession —
makes Lean Startup tools critical.»
The idea of the «
lean startup,» where young companies
make use of readily available tools and quick iteration to figure out their business without spending much money, might be trendy, but VC Ben Horowitz is not a fan.