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Many things from the blog. So far, the best bits of the book are repetitions of the blog (reasonably enough...). Concepts like: - If you can't fail, you can't
by swombat 15y ago
Many things from the blog. So far, the best bits of the book are repetitions of the blog (reasonably enough...). Concepts like:
- If you can't fail, you can't learn
- Growth hypothesis & Value hypothesis as the two first root hypotheses to check
- "Innovation accounting" - keeping track of things so you can validate your learning as much as possible
I think Lean is a great framework to apply entrepreneurial skills, so long as it's not followed dogmatically, of course...
- davidw 15y agoAnd does he give you specific advice on how to do those? I mean, everyone wants to know if they can grow, but for certain kinds of startups, there's a hockey stick curve, meaning that before it grows... it doesn't.
- swombat 15y agoHe gives examples in various contexts, rather than advice, but it looks to me like there's a whole series of "Lean Startup" books coming up (e.g. this one: http://www.ashmaurya.com/2012/01/the-new-and-updated-running-lean-book/ http://www.ashmaurya.com/2012/01/the-new-and-updated-running... ), and some of them will inevitably focus more on practice. I think the point of Ries' book (which I think is reasonable) is to lay out the theoretical basis and start a movement.