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Internal or external, in my experience startup teams require three structural attributes: scarce but secure resources, independent authority to develop their business, and a personal stake in the outcome.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
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Nick Nikolov • 2 cards
In the case of business model and product innovation, the Lean Startup movement provides us with a framework for operating in conditions of extreme uncertainty. In Running Lean (O’Reilly), Ash Maurya explains how to execute a Lean Startup model: Do not spend a lot of time creating a sophisticated business model. Instead, design a simplified busines
... See moreJez Humble, Joanne Molesky, • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
quickly highlight the key assumptions and major risks facing a startup or a significant new product in an existing business.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Steve Blank: No plan survives first contact with customers.
Derek Sivers • Anything You Want
Internal or external, in my experience startup teams require three structural attributes: scarce but secure resources, independent authority to develop their business, and a personal stake in the outcome.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Early on, when the team is small (2–15 people), typically processes are loose as the overhead in aligning o... See more
Evolution of Monolithic Systems
Lean startup methodologies, as defined by Steve Blank and Eric Ries, are also an alternative to waterfall-like approaches to business planning. There are simply too many untested assumptions in product development and customer discovery to have a reasonable prediction of features, including customer ability and willingness to pay, readiness of supp
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