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Love the interview - must watch for non technical cofounders
Re:Udemy CEO, Eren Bali’s Story on Friday December 07, 2012 @05:09PM (#4889492)
Wow - great story. This is yet another great American success story - and still congress can't get our immigration policy figured out. Congrats to Eren and the udemy team...if only congress could get their act together...
Re:Eric Ries' Lean Startup Course from SXSW 2012 on Friday August 10, 2012 @09:15PM (#4369059)
Just doing it. I think that's really the key here. Love watching a few courses like this but at the end of the day you just gotta do it. Test some sh*t, realize that you're in a local maxima and that testing more button variations won't do shit, try other stuff. But again always keeping the main idea of Lean alive - identify hypothesis and understand the why not just the what.

How about you? What are you reading/doing?

Re:Eric Ries' Lean Startup Course from SXSW 2012 on Friday August 10, 2012 @06:03PM (#4368512)
I hear you. But I think it's really the bandwagoners who give Lean a bad name. It's hilarious when all of these wanna be mark zuckbergs talk about how they just ran these 8 sick A/B tests on what shade of purple button converts the best.

Point of Lean is to think in a structured and rigorous way about problems. Not just to look at A/b results but to always be aware of the hypothesis that underlies any decision.