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It's not. Ries and Blank argue for focusing your money expenditure on validated learning about your customers. They don't argue for whether you should spend mor
by swombat 17y ago
It's not. Ries and Blank argue for focusing your money expenditure on validated learning about your customers. They don't argue for whether you should spend more or less.
You could have a lean start-up that burns $10m a month.
- staunch 17y agoWell they're making up a new definition of lean if having 100 people when you could easily get by with 40 counts as lean.
- swombat 17y agoThe point of a start-up isn't to "get by", it's to discover, prove, and then scale up a new business model. "Getting by" is pointless if you haven't found your product/market fit. You need to invest in finding it until it's found. If that takes 100 people, then that's how many people you should hire (if you can afford it).
- staunch 17y agoThat's just dodging the very real decision he had to make. He could continue searching for product/market fit with 40 people or he could do it with 100. There's no "right" answer, they're just different approaches. Many people would (and did) advocate taking the leaner approach, but he took the fatter one...