The Lean Startup uses the term “Validated Learning.” What does this mean? How does it differ from normal learning, and what does the “validated” mean?
Learn from Eric Ries how to conduct validated learning in your startup.
In a lean startup, how do you figure out if you’re actually making progress? It’s with innovation accounting. Learn the principles of innovation accounting here, along with examples.
You’ve heard about startups building new products and services to change the world. But what, exactly, is a startup? And who are startup founders? Learn the proper definition of startup here – it’s not what you might think.
The final substantive chapter of Lean Startup discusses innovation in a large company and internal startups, in the form of an innovation sandbox.
If growth is your goal and you achieve it, you’ll keep growing your startup to 10, 100, 1,000 people. How do you keep innovating to grow new lines of business while keeping existing products competitive? How do you prevent yourself from being bogged down by process?
When you face a problem, how do you figure out what the root cause was? How do you learn what the right problem to tackle is?
The solution is the Five Whys: keep asking Why until you find the problem. But how do you do it correctly, and what pitfalls are there in the 5 Whys Analysis? Learn from this Lean Startup guide.
What is a value hypothesis for your startup? What is a growth hypothesis? How do you generate your lean startup hypotheses, and how do you get data to answer them?
What is a video minimum viable product? How do you build one, and have it test your Lean Startup hypotheses? Learn the key tips here.
What is the Build Measure Learn feedback loop from Lean Startup? How do you step through the loop to build your company? Learn more from this guide from Lean Startup
Entrepreneurs seem to resist management by nature – that’s why they started the company in the first place! But just like any project or organization, entrepreneurs and startups really do need management.
What is entrepreneurial management? How do you manage well as an entrepreneur? Learn more, from Lean Startup and Eric Ries.
The ideas in The Lean Startup came about when Eric got frustrated working on products that failed to get traction. As an engineer, he initially thought they failed due to technical problems, but this was never the right answer. In reality, they just spent a lot of time building things nobody wanted.
Eric Ries applied these concepts to IMVU, which became a roaring success, with millions of users and $50 million in annual revenues in 2011. To help others succeed in innovation, Eric started the Lean Startup movement by publicizing the framework you’ll learn about here.