The Lean Startup
also referred to as: lean startup
7 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 17, 2015 by Will Sachs · said 16 times in 12 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (6), Kaz Nejatian (3), Willie Biggart (1), Tomer London (1), Matthew McCall (1), Jeff Lawson (1), Eric Ver Ploeg (1), Dave Morin (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 20 VC 085: Mark Suster @ Upfront Ventures on Being A Super Entrepreneur Driven VC
- 20 VC FF 20: Shaking Up The Food Industry With Willie Biggart @ Spoonfed
- 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
- 20 VC 022: Letting go of the life we planned and the Power of the Female Narrative with Matthew McCall
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Everything said about The Lean Startup, oldest first
Jul 17, 2015
Sacks: Defining MVP viability is the hardest part of Lean Startup
“Yeah, I mean, the V, the, in MVP, viable. Like, that's the hard one, because how do you know what's viable? Maybe something, maybe what you think is your MVP is not, not quite viable. Like, it needs just a little bit more polish in order to be viable, and then…”
Jul 17, 2015 neutral
Jul 17, 2018 bullish
Jan 29, 2021 negative
Palan: Lean startup and agile frameworks prioritize fast iteration over actual strategy
“A lot of the kind of lean startup thinking is actually just like iterate quickly, right? Like the agile just iterate quickly, quickly, quickly. There's not much about strategy. It's much about high volume, you know, of tests.”
Jul 19, 2024 negative
Jul 19, 2024
Adams: Canva ignored early investor pressure to follow Lean Startup playbook
“The Lean Startup book actually launched in the year that we launched, it was like, 2012, and investors were quoting it at us, and like, telling us to launch as quickly as possible. We kind of ignored them because we knew what we wanted in the product, and we k…”