A lean startup is a business methodology that prioritizes building a product or service based on actual customer feedback rather than traditional business planning. Originating from Eric Ries' 2011 ...

If you’ve recently launched a startup, I’m sure that you’ve heard a lot about being “lean.” But I’m not here to discuss the methodology popularized by the likes of Eric Ries. Today, lean principles ...

Market research statistics indicate that more than 300 million startups are launched globally each year. Of that amount, only about 10% manage to become successful businesses. Startups in the digital ...

Ries is, at first glance, very different from the quality gurus who presided–either physically or in spirit–over GE in the last century. In the 1950s William Edwards Deming taught the Japanese to ...

The lean startup methodology was originally introduced to help startups with new product development. “Initially crafted to help tech startups achieve rapid growth, the Lean Startup methodology has ...

There is a myriad of reasons why most startups fail, ranging from a lack of organizational structure to minimal understanding of who their customer is or what their product should look like. Ten years ...

For those of you who are interested in how lean startup principles might be applied in larger companies, I'm hosting a panel at the AITP regional conference this Tuesday. Panelists include: Jorgen ...

A medtech entrepreneur explains why more medical device startups need to be run lean and the lessons he learned building a lean device company. Dr. Shantanu Gaur Tech startups have built a whole ...

In a previous post, I wrote about how large companies are poised to be the greatest beneficiaries of the lean startup movement. We are entering an era of technology that is well suited to the ...

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