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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Top 10 Reasons to NOT be a Lean Startup
Top 10 Reasons to NOT be a Lean Startup View more presentations from Patrick Vlaskovits
Which one are you building?
Is your startup a vitamin or a painkiller? Better yet, how do you know?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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