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Myths about the Lean Startup

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Is the fifth myth that there are 5 myths about lean startups? I can only count four in the article...

The second rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club. (Kidding.) Updated.

Although I swear there were 5 when I first copied the article title. (The URL seems to bear that out!)

There were, my apologies. Myth #5 is that lean startups make you lose the ability to count :)

This seems to be mostly an argument about terminology, isn't it? The "myth" kind of startup (bootstrapped, low-expenditure) is a coherent concept too, but I take it that the author is arguing they should be called something other than "lean startup" to avoid confusion with what he means by the phrase (perhaps "ramen startup"?).

I believe I speak for all the bootstrappers out there: we prefer the term "broke".

Haha! That made me laugh out loud. Couldn't agree more.

When will this all be over? I'm sick of getting bugged to death about this lean startup stuff. Are all startup people this borish?

What I'm asking is, does anyone else get super bored by the constant evanglism and promotin of this concept, or is everybody super excited about it, and it's just me that gets bored?

Does being constantly promoting your ideas help your startup succeed or does it hurt it because "normal" people get sick of it and shut you out?

  When will this all be over?

When it stops driving traffic.

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