Re:The History Of Lean Startup
by SaintSal on Monday December 03, 2012 @12:29PM
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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."
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.
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."
The Toyota Production System that Sal referred to evolved between the 40's and 70's for example.