Eric Ries: Lean Startup Presentation For Web 2.0 Expo

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I'm curious to kick off a discussion around this... With regard to 'Lean Startup' principals, are you:

1) actively using them

2) planning on using them

3) only using/planning to use a subset of them

4) confused by all the attention they're getting

To answer my own question: we're both '1' & '2'. We're actively using some of them and figuring out how to deploy more of them.

We're in the enterprise software space and are completely bootstrapped. Having taken the hybrid product/consulting path to get here, we're balancing the need to manage existing paying customers who've helped us get to this point, with a parallel focus on customer development to figure out how to take our product to a much wider audience.

So, Eric and co have been plugging lean startups for a while now and it is no doubt an interesting way to structure things, but I'm wondering if anyone else has experimented with trying to implement these practices in full and could share your experiences?? results??

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