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Ask HN: How could apply lean startup practices to religion?

• evanwolf 14y ago
  Minimum Viable Dogma?
• deleted 14y ago
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• namank 14y ago
  Why would you want to? Startup is a process, religion isn't. Now if you were to replace religion with life, we might have something...
  • evanwolf 14y ago
    Religions all start somewhere, usually someplace small with a handfull of people. We see storefront and basement churches all the time. Most fail and fail quickly. Often the failures come from the same things that kill startups. Focus on the wrong things. Not finding its market. Not serving its market. Burning through cash before reaching positive cash flow. Inability to adjust. Inability to scale. etc. So religion is really another type of institution, like business or government. And, perhaps, more religions would be sustainable if they adopted lean startup practices.
    • hoodwink 14y ago
      "Lean startup" already is a religion to some people