Weekly Lean Startup roundup — February 26th, 2017
Hi Lean Startup enthusiast,
Here are some of the trending articles from this week. If you want to submit your article to the Lean Startup Circle publication, please reach out to me.
Thanks,
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Is The Lean Startup a Stupid Way to Start a Company?
By: Kyle Harrison
At the beginning of one of our first classes, I had some casual small talk with the students transition into an assault on most of what I’ve spent the last 3 years learning.
“I’m anti-lean startup. I think it’s stupid, and business schools are stupid for teaching it. They should focus on accounting and finance.”
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How to Build a Product that People Will Actually Buy
By: Ethan Adams
Though it might seem impossible to know if people will actually pay for your future product, it’s not. Here’s how to make sure that you’re on the right track every step of the way.
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The Design Sprint (And Three Reasons Why It’s a Solid Win)
(Part book review and some reflections on Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days)
The sprint is conditioning for a much greater race. Since innovation and creative capacity is, again, an everyday frame-of-mind, this is part of a marathon. The problem is that you don’t know the obstacles ahead of the first sprint unless you do it. Nothing is ever clear until you make that jump.
