Lean Startup

Diversity is a hot topic, but what is not often discussed is the fact that diverse teams are more innovative. Read more about why diversity is an innovation metric. Continue reading...

Burn rates are meaningless in isolation. Iteration time is a critical aspect of starting a new business and we've noted a few misconceptions. Continue reading...

The Customer Happiness Canvas is a tool for teams to visualize strategies for getting and keeping customers. Continue reading...

How we define “important” defines how we spend our days. We can endlessly debate what’s important without actually doing anything about any of it. Continue reading...

Nothing is worse that seeing an entrepreneur abandon a potentially good idea because they ran a landing page test and found a low (or zero) % conversion rate. That’s called a false negative. Here are a few things to check when our conversion rate looks so low that we’re considering abandoning an idea. I’ll list them in order of least likely to most likely based on my experience. Continue reading...

How many customer interviews are required to test unproven assumptions? (This is a guest post by Luke Szyrmer, a Product Manager and Consultant, and author... Continue reading...

(Lean Startup Pitch: Andy Cars, founder of Seedcap and Lean Ventures, helps startups with strategy, business development, lean startup and fundraising, and large companies create and... Continue reading...

Lean Startup takes our biggest business risk and reduces it. If our biggest risk is that our demo day fundraising pitch will fail, we can test that. Continue reading...

(Customer discovery debrief- Nick Noreña, a Lean Startup Coach at Kromatic, works with teams and organizations to help them implement Lean techniques in their daily business.... Continue reading...

We have a new update for the Real Startup Book available here: Download For those unfamiliar with this project, please read our first update. Updates We updated the... Continue reading...