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Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.
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Innovation accounting
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Customers don't care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs.
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The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.
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focus on the boring stuff: how to measure progress, how to set up milestones, and how to prioritize work.
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managers in most companies are already overwhelmed with good ideas. Their challenge lies in prioritization and execution,
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Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.
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we figure out what we need to learn and then work backwards to see what product will work as an experiment to get that learning.
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As Cook says, "Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer's problem."4
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Build-Measure-Learn
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By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.
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If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
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The critical first question for any lean transformation is: which activities create value and which are a form of waste? Once
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Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
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Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.
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This is an important rule: a good design is one that changes customer behavior for the better.
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dot-com flameouts that erroneously believed that they could lose money on each customer but, as the old joke goes, make it up in volume.
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Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.
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In fact, entrepreneurship should be considered a viable career path for innovators inside large organizations.
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Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.
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it's human nature to assume that when we see a mistake, it's due to defects in someone else's department, knowledge, or character,
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Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.
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We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.
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Product managers figure out what features are likely to please customers; product designers then figure out how those features should look and feel.
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This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
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Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.
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Peter Drucker said, "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."2
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Validated learning
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learn whether to pivot or persevere.
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Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
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Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn't mean it cannot be managed.
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A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.
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What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?
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We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.
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I call this building an adaptive organization, one that automatically adjusts its process and performance to current conditions.
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there is no bigger destroyer of creative potential than the misguided decision to persevere.
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The Lean Startup works only if we are able to build an organization as adaptable and fast as the challenges it faces. This
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Startups don't starve; they drown." There
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Building a startup is an exercise in institution building; thus, it necessarily involves management. This
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It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.
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Reading is good, action is better.
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we think we can truly short-circuit the ramp by killing things that don't make sense fast and doubling down on the ones that do.
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