Lean Startup
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Startups For the Rest of Us 10 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 7 
In Depth 2 
Founder's Journal 1 
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Ries: Outsourcing product building to AI slows startups down
“If you just send it off to do the artifacts for you, if you have it make a product that you don't understand how that product is or what it works, if you don't talk to the customers, but you have the machine talk to customers for you, it will not actually acce…”
Eric Ries: Lean Startup Failed to Give Founders Governance and Control Tools
“So I feel like Lean Startup, we created so many companies worth protecting, but we didn't give them the tools they needed to actually stay in control, to actually protect the trustworthiness of the thing that they made.”
Canva rejected early investor pressure to launch an unpolished initial product
“Few investors asked us to ship a bit earlier than we would have. And we always said, no, we know what the product is. We know what we want to put out there as the first version.”
Handy: Lean Startup and Y Combinator frameworks fundamentally misunderstand innovation
“I understand there's a lean startup approach and there's Y Combinator and all this. I actually am not a big supporter of these approaches because I think fundamentally what they're trying to say is you can take the process of innovation and you can put a metho…”
Walling: The Lean Startup contains almost nothing on marketing tactics
“Someone recommended the lean startup. And it's like, he talks almost nothing about marketing. There's nothing about marketing tactics in there.”