The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets

a juggernaut of technological and cultural

Don’t follow your passions; follow your effort. It will lead you to your passions and to success.

solve human problems. These are problems that the best technology in the world cannot solve; problems for which symptoms can be addressed, but not the actual cause; problems caused by the tendency of imperfect humans to do very human-like things.

A company committed to a specific segment will build or deliver potentially any product or service required to solve a myriad of problems faced by an identifiable group of people or businesses.

Flow in lean circles means that manufacturing is pulled through the product development process so that each component is built only when demanded by the next step in the process.

create proximity to your customer as part of the fundamental DNA.

our brains work better when we have something to measure against. A baseline or a hypothesis allows us to create some sort of an experiment to determine how reality compares to our guess.

Waste in a lean startup are those activities that do not produce learning.

Social entrepreneurs—in other words, cause-oriented businesses—are often committed to solving a specific problem or serving