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The Lean Startup

also referred to as: lean startup

8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 29, 2023 by Eric Ries · said 24 times in 5 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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brought up most by Eric Ries (14), Lenny Rachitsky (6), Pete Kazanjy (1), Madhavan Ramanujam (1), Cameron Adams (1), Alistair Croll (1)

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Oct 29, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Eric Ries: Lean Startup does not mean being cheap or skipping fundraising
“Top misconceptions about lean startup. And it was like, number one, lean means cheap. So you're doing lean startup. It means you're not raising money. It's like, that's not true.”
Eric Ries Oct 29, 2023 ▶ 22:51 Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
Oct 29, 2023 positive
Opinion
Ries: Lean Startup won by default because legacy methods had few defenders
“We charge onto the field, and no other army ever came to charge us back. Like, it just, we won by default because the people who were doing it the old way didn't really like it or want, like, it was very few defenders of the old way. Like, very few people came…”
Eric Ries Oct 29, 2023 ▶ 15:20 Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
Oct 29, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Eric Ries: Lean Startup explicitly embraces vision alongside experimentation
“Lean is opposed to having a vision. You know, if you have, if you were really visionary, you wouldn't do experimentation. Experimentation leads to local maxima and, you know, it, whatever. It's just like, I'm, I read it in somebody's book that, that they're li…”
Eric Ries Oct 29, 2023 ▶ 23:09 Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
Oct 29, 2023 negative
Insight
Ries: Second book editions ruin original works by over-qualifying arguments
“When I was a consumer of books, I hated it when authors would come out with a second edition that would destroy what was beautiful about the first edition, including the mistakes. Because like in their attempt to put disclaimers on everything and make everythi…”
Eric Ries Oct 29, 2023 ▶ 24:44 Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
Oct 29, 2023 positive
Insight
Ries: Lean Startup is empirical and must adopt whatever works
“It's a scientific theory, which means that, that whatever works is lean startup. So if someone comes up with something new and it works, we can't be threatened and upset about it. We have to adopt it.”
Eric Ries Oct 29, 2023 ▶ 18:24 Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
Oct 29, 2023
Insight
Ries: An MVP is the most efficient test of a hypothesis
“MVP is simply for whatever the hypothesis is that we're trying to test, what is the most efficient way to get the validation we need about whether the hypothesis is true or not?”
Eric Ries Oct 29, 2023 ▶ 28:43 Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
Oct 29, 2023
Insight
Ries: A pivot means changing strategy while preserving the vision
“That is what it's called when you change the strategy, but try to have Fidelity to the vision that we, it needs a name because we do it all the time.”
Eric Ries Oct 29, 2023 ▶ 11:28 Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
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