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Next LeanLA Meetup & Henry Ford

I really should update my blog more often — but, until I do…. 1) If you’re in the Los Angeles area, come by the next LeanLA meetup and see Jason Calacanis interview Eric Ries.  All attendees also get a copy of the The Lean Startup.  You should RSVP ASAP. 2)  I wrote an article that [...]

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10 Reasons to NOT be a Lean Startup

Top 10 Reasons to Not be a Lean Startup for Momentum Michigan

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I see dead startups

My buddy, Dave Binetti of Votizen came down this last Monday to present on False Prophets at LeanLA.com’s last meetup (a meetup I co-organize).  In his talk, about the subject of False  Negatives and False Positives came up. In the context of startups, a False Negative means that while your startup is not getting any [...]

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The #SXSW Lean Challenge

So, I am heading off to SXSW today – I will be speaking in a Core Conversation titled “Conference Startups: Grassroots Innovation Rocking the Event World“.  I will be staying with my friend Noah — you might know Noah as Chief Sumo of App Sumo. Noah looks just like this.  (I swear to you, he [...]

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The “Shu, Ha, Ri” of Lean Startups

I wanted to clarify Slide 18 “There are no rules” from Top 10 Reasons to NOT be a Lean Startup – which apparently has caused some confusion. I also referenced “there are no rules” in an earlier post, which Andrew Skotzko picked up and riffed upon. What I am attempting to get across to people [...]

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Top 10 Reasons to NOT be a Lean Startup

Top 10 Reasons to NOT be a Lean Startup View more presentations from Patrick Vlaskovits

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Which one are you building?

Is your startup a vitamin or a painkiller?  Better yet, how do you know?

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Graham, Blank and Ries on MVPs

Three very smart people talking about the same thing from three slightly different angles: A Quantum of Utility We advise startups to launch when they’ve added a quantum of utility: when there is at least some set of users who would be excited to hear about it, because they can now do something they couldn’t [...]

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Minimal Viable Products and Gall’s Law

Swapping out the word “system” for “product” in Gall’s Law gets us: A complex product that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple product that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex product designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start [...]

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If you’re not Getting out of the Building, you’re not doing Customer Development and Lean Startups

If you are pre-Product/Market Fit and you aren’t actually “Getting out of the Building” (actually talking to your customers), you aren’t doing Customer Development, and your startup isn’t a Lean Startup. Let me repeat that:  If you aren’t actually talking to your customers, you aren’t doing Customer Development. And by talking, I mean speaking.  With [...]

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