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history doesn't move in concrete steps.

people have been running lean start-ups and building products via a customer-centric approach way before either of these guys put pen to paper.

Yup. Isn't this exactly Sal's point?

The Toyota Production System that Sal referred to evolved between the 40's and 70's for example.

Totally. I was trying to explain how the concepts and people fit together, to give some context to the tools and approaches we have to choose from.

To your point more directly, I'm of the mindset that you can "do Lean Startup" without explicitly subscribing to it as a methodology. My goal is to help people understand the underlying concepts to see which approaches make the most sense for them, and even to the point where they can adapt them and come up with their own ways.

One of my favourite serial entrepreneurs, Nick Imrie, once told me: "We used to do Lean Startup. We just called it getting experience."

Thanks for not creating a shitty infographic!

Pretty good read as always, Sal!

Steve Blank, Eric Ries and the history of a new way of doing and understanding entrepreneurship

The History Of Lean Startup