Ash Maurya: The lean stack

Startups, keep you head down and build real products that delight customers, instead of subscribing to these "startup gurus".

I'd like to think the essence of a start-up is in the passion of its team to produce something new/fascinating/challenging ...

If you want to mainly establish a sustainable business model, just run a traditional service business. There's enough money to be made there.

For those in the Midwest we need to banish Midwest nice as well:

http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2012/06/what-i-learned-in-...

I like Ash and his approach to lean but this recent post feels like overkill. The lean canvas (based on the business development model) was meant to simplify planning and decision making, not make it complex and time consuming.

http://sparknlaunch.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/another-way-to-...