Eric Ries' Lean Startup Course from SXSW 2012
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To see a complete list of speakers (with bios), the old website is here: http://leanstartupsxsw.co/speakers/
How about you? What are you reading/doing?
Point of Lean is to think in a structured and rigorous way about problems. Not just to look at A/b results but to always be aware of the hypothesis that underlies any decision.
The A/B test crap is just that.. crap.
Where Lean does make sense is applying the scientific method to the startup process. If you can identify your assumptions, figure out a way to test them, and then adjust accordingly, that is a fantastic thing. Every assumption is a risk, this is just a process for addressing/mitigating them to determine which are "good enough."
That said, every time I hear the word "pivot," I want to hit someone. It's been so misused and abused that it's lost most of the meaning. :(
Intended use: "We were working on a time tracking application for freelance designers, and pivoted to making it for lawyers instead."
There are lots of kinds of pivots (customer segment, platform, channel, value capture, engine of growth etc) - in essence, it's about taking what you've learned so far, and using that knowledge to tweak your approach to solving the problem you're working on.
Eric Ries' 'The Lean Startup' is the canonical reference for this stuff.
the answers to which are probably: - no, not just yet, but we hope it's useful - definitely - maybe, and we'd love your help figuring it out :)
in other words, it's a work in progress with some very likely positive benefits, but by no means a perfect science (yet, anyway).