If you do a copycat with the sole goal to copy a business model that works for someone else or might work for someone else in the future (exit driven) it might

If you do a copycat with the sole goal to copy a business model that works for someone else or might work for someone else in the future (exit driven) it might be a "top-down" situation. Let me make an example: There is Stripe.com and some German clone called paymill. Of course the clone didn't need to start lean because Stripe already validated the market for them. On the other hand beeing non-lean and non-agile will be very painful, when the "original" pivots or expands into new markets/offer products that are not validated yet)…