Favourite Points from the Lean Startup

Thanks to Sharon Schneider and Noel Hurst for the recommendation!

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Make real work happen. Don’t create “success theatre.”

Insubstantial progress is easy to make. Selecting data that makes your outcome look desirable or using PR to overrepresent your progress won’t bring you closer to creating a valuable product.

If you’re focused on performing for other people instead of learning about your audience, problem or industry, you’ll succeed at boosting your ego not solving your problem.

Personal security almost seems like a prerequisite to making real work happen. If you don’t need the validation of sharing metrics-that-don’t-matter, then you’re less likely to focus on the metrics that do matter.

“Energy wasted in success theatre is energy that could have been used to build a sustainable business”

Small Batches > Large Batches

In small batches, you catch your mistakes earlier on. In large batches, you get the illusion of increased efficiency, but if there’s a mistake all your work gets wasted.

Finding defects earlier (using small batches) prevents bigger problems later.

Example: baking 100 cupcakes. If you make the batter for all 100, and they turn out to suck, you have to restart the…