The Lean Startup
also referred to as: lean startup
9 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Marc Andreessen · said 25 times in 7 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Eric Ries (7), Michael Copeland (5), Sonal Chokshi (4), Marc Andreessen (4), Martin Casado (2), Scott Cooper (1), Salim Ismail (1), Jez Humble (1)
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Everything said about The Lean Startup, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: Ben Silbermann said 'Lean Startup' methodology would have killed Pinterest
“Pinterest is like a great, in fact, Ben Subberman is actually on the record as saying, had I read the Lean Startup book, I never would have done Pinterest, because it took us four years to figure it, If we had, if he had known about the Lean Startup thing, he …”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Ries: MVPs Maintain Stakeholder Interest Before Hockey-Stick Growth Hits
“So I think of Lean Startup and MVPs in particular as a way to demonstrate progress towards the vision to sustain that interest over time during the long flat part of the hockey stick when the vanity metrics are really low and there isn't Instantaneous, overnig…”
Jan 2, 2019
Ries: 'The Lean Startup' Focuses on Management Accounting, Not Jargon
“If you read the book, the vast majority of it, the bulk of it by weight is not about, you know, This jargon, but it's about the management system. It's about the innovation accounting. It's about the math that underlies this way of working.”
Jan 2, 2019
Ries hosts a secret tech meetup where Lean terminology is banned
“I have a secret product managers, like a meetup group that I do for one of the big tech companies where we get together. It's secret. I can't name the group... Because they work in a company that has a real strong, non-invented here culture, and lean startup i…”
Jan 2, 2019
Ries: Lean methodology must continuously evolve and obsolete its own prior teachings
“Lean startup stands for what works. So if I said something wrong, if we discover ourselves as a movement, we use our own scientific process to discover new things, they obsolete the old things, and we should always be getting better, and what we wrote five yea…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Ries: Lean Startup reduced a client's hardware iteration cycle to one week
“And they eventually got to a place where they can show, they can iterate on this so quickly now, they can build a new version of that device every week. Used to take them three to six years to build a new model. Now they can do a new version every week.”