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You don't have to follow SV stereotypes The lean startup is alive in well in most entrepreneurial ventures. Starting a food truck? Grocery store? Custom t-shir
by ben_jones 8y ago
You don't have to follow SV stereotypes
The lean startup is alive in well in most entrepreneurial ventures. Starting a food truck? Grocery store? Custom t-shirts? Indie video game? Small focused SaaS?
The echo chamber is real. "I looked outside and saw no lean startups, its dead!"
- pjlegato 8y agoThe article (and most of HN) refer to the local Silicon Valley jargon definiton of the word "startup": a company that is meant to grow extremely fast through the use of new technology. It's not a synonym for any entreprenurial venture. What you're talking about is locally called a "lifestyle business" (not a "startup") -- a small business that can provide a comfortable living for the founder and a few employees, but which has essentially zero longer term growth prospects. This point seems to be the source of much confusion in the comments here.
- pofilat 8y agoThose aren't "lean" either! "Lean" means starting your business before you have a product, marketing-driven development, and fumbling around chasing customers until you find something they want to buy, and then building it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lean_Startup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lean_Startup