What lean start-ups do differently

In this excellent HBR article, Steve Blank describes how lean start-ups and agile development are changing the game. Entrepreneurs are evolving from doing business plans to creating minimum viable products and validating the ideas immediately with their potential costumers.

The goal is to add value and create good products for costumers to buy not to create big companies and then create products.

In his words “the founders of lean start-ups don’t begin with a business plan; they begin with the search for a business model. Only after quick rounds of experimentation and feedback reveal a model that works do lean founders focus on execution”

The following table show what lean start-ups do differently