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Re:How We Built a Lean Startup Inside a 200 Person Company by delinka on Thursday October 31, 2013 @11:25AM (#6647328)
The part I find humorous is constantly redefining terms. I thought "lean" referred to budgets. In that light, I would have refuted the headline's premise with a reminder that the 'outer' company was footing the bill for salaries.

No, what they're discussing is yet another methodology (or an existing one with a tweak, requiring a new name...) for creating a product, getting it to [a subset of] customers, and refining it.

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Re:How We Built a Lean Startup Inside a 200 Person Company by mattmanser on Thursday October 31, 2013 @11:51AM (#6647506)
No, the 'lean startup' has never meant a small budget and while I love the concept, it is a pretty terrible name as it's not really cheap to do it properly.

I made the same mistake until I started reading about what they were actually talking about.

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Re:How We Built a Lean Startup Inside a 200 Person Company by reverius42 on Thursday October 31, 2013 @02:32PM (#6648774)
Lean process, not lean budget.
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Re:How We Built a Lean Startup Inside a 200 Person Company by VladRussian2 on Thursday October 31, 2013 @05:03PM (#6649865)
>Lean process,

we've had it (and still have, just the buzzword itself somehow magically stopped flying around). It isn't lean. Process by definition can't be lean, because process itself is the fat, and once the word "process" is uttered, you may be sure that you aren't in Kansas anymore.

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