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Scott Berkun: How to Translate Observations and Creative Insight Into a Solution
In “The Dance of the Possible,” Scott Berkun outlines four tests for understanding the real work involved to translate observations and creative insight into a solution. Creativity is Not an Accident...
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Mary Sorber: Raw Pasta is Not Enough
It’s easy for the product team to to fixate on the core technology that enables a product and lose sight of what’s needed for the “whole product.” This article is the result of an ongoing collaboration...
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Newsletter V2021 Issue 1: Building, Borrowing and Keeping Trust
Trust is the currency of social capital. Trust is built slowly over repeated interactions where founders take the actions and deliver the results that they had promised. Unlike financial capital,...
View ArticleStart with Mindset with Ash Maurya
Ash Maurya makes the case that entrepreneurs must start with mindset to drive the skill development that will create traction and success. Start with Mindset with Ash Maurya From Lean Culture...
View ArticleMark Brinkerhoff: Starting With a Sketch Saves Money
A great short briefing by Mark Brinkerhoff, President of Fusion Design on how starting with a sketch saves money; he uses a simple HVAC design example but the technique is broadly applicable. Mark...
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John Nash on “Make Something that People Want”
Video and an edited transcript from the “Make Something that People Want”” briefing by John Nash at the Aug-24-2022 Lean Culture meetup. John Nash on “Make Something that People Want” At its core,...
View ArticleFinding Product-Market Fit in Industrial IoT and Space Startups by Lee Garverick
Finding Product-Market Fit in Industrial IoT and Space Startups A Playbook for Founders, Product Managers, and Their Leaders By Lee Garverick Finding product-market fit matters because it ensures your...
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Even For Demanding Markets, An MVP That’s a 70% Solution is Often Good Enough
Stripping the least useful third of the features requested allows you to deliver a 70 percent solution much more rapidly that’s often good enough. Even For Demanding Markets, An MVP That’s a 70 Percent...
View ArticleMinimum Viable Product: Enthusiastically Proceed Skeptically
In a candid discussion about the challenges of managing your own expectations for a minimum viable product (MVP), Tristan Kromer observed, “It’s psychologically hard to enthusiastically proceed with...
View ArticleQ: Is It Waste To Build A B2B MVP That Inspires Trust?
Build A B2B MVP That Inspires Trust Q: I am preparing to launch a website for my minimum viable product (MVP). It’s a few pages and has has some forms and a file upload capability. Potential customers...
View ArticleAn MVP is Finished Only After You Have Early Adopters
Javid Jamae (@JavidJamae) is a Principal Engineer at Tout, where he heads up the experimentation and growth efforts; he leads a team focused on growing the viewership for both local and nationally...
View ArticleQ: A Google Search Finds Dozens of Competitors, What Now?
A common mistake technical entrepreneurs can make is to focus on what’s easy to build, and enter a market with dozens of competitors without thought to differentiation. Or to hope that by making it...
View ArticleSomething Ventured: Make Money and Change the World for the Better
One documentary worth watching to get some context on the history of entrepreneurship and venture capital is “Something Ventured.” It’s a series of interviews with venture capitalists talking about...
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Frank Robinson’s Minimum Viable Product Definition
Frank Robinson’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) concept as first articulated in 2001. An MVP is the result of product development and customer development proceeding in parallel, which Frank Robinson...
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Developing a New Product? Key Questions to Ask
An infographic with some key questions to consider when developing a new product. Originally suggested in “Breakthrough Thinking From Inside the Box” by Coyne, Clifford, and Dye in HBR December 2007....
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Q: How to Explore an MVP For Knowledge Worker Productivity
Applications that improve knowledge worker productivity have to satisfy “prepared users” not “casual users” and are especially challenge to do customer discovery and development for. With his...
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Derek Sivers: How to Start a Movement
In February 2010 Derek Sivers gave a great talk on “How to Start a Movement” that offered some important tips for leaders and but offered the surprising conclusion that concluded that the most...
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Q: How Do I Plan for Pivots or Even Shutting Down My Startup?
It’s useful to explore several paths in parallel and have a default list of pivots ready of your first few efforts don’t bear fruit. Q: How Do I Plan for Pivots or Even Shutting Down My Startup? Q: I...
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Design Your MVP In Two Weeks
Design your MVP in two weeks to avoid adding unnecessary features and complexity to your offering. A two-week time box forces you to focus on essentials. Design Your MVP In Two Weeks Often, we see...
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