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In THE LEADER'S GUIDE, will you also make available business tools you suggest for lean-startup project? A bit comparable to what Alex Osterwalder & strategyzer is offering it (Canvas, Test&Learning Cards, Progress Board, etc.)?
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There are so many assumptions baked into these questions that it's a little hard to answer. First of all, I'm not a fan of the "10X engineer" framing. I'm much more interested in the systems that companies can build to create 10X teams. I am thinking of two conventional "10X engineers" right now that I've worked with in my career. One is extremely loud, brash, judgmental and basically scary. If you are brave enough t…
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Link for those who are unfamiliar. https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/
What does your book writing process look like now? What did you learn writing The Lean Startup and how much of the teachings of the lean concept itself are applicable to book writing? Cheers! /Martin
1) the value proposition for the book was right and 2) that the book actually lived up to that value proposition
I am convinced the book would not have been a blockbuster without that work.
Now the tools are so much better. Kickstarter allows me to do this testing and iteration in a much bigger and more public way - and that's just the start. Now that I have a 7000+ community of people who are going on the journey with me, I have a built-in place to test concepts and make sure that what I'm recommending is actually effective.
What is your experience with the NSF I-Corps program? Do you know of anyone who has gone through the program and then built a successful company afterwords? Link for those who are unfamiliar. https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/
I'd be curious what the equivalent idea of what you are doing (by posting here as AMA) would be if you weren't Eric Ries posting on HN. So for Eric Ries this is "lean" (or what used to be known as "gorilla marketing") but for someone who doesn't have name recognition what is the equivalent? [1] [1] Simply recognizing that someone without name recognition doing something similar on HN is not assured of getting any att…
Let's be honest: I almost didn't make the front page. My post got to about #25 on /newest with only like 9 upvotes. If it had rolled over to page two, I doubt I would still be answering questions right now. So no, I don't think this kind of technique is useful for marketing if you don't have name recognition. However, there are many other ways to build rep in a community like HN without being famous. I bet if any of…
I actually picked up a considerable amount of side consulting by being a regular commenter on a well known blog. While I make money from that side consulting (near 6 figures), it's actually a drain on how I make money in other ways. It almost doesn't pay (but it's fun). [1] However the time it took me to earn enough of a reputation which led (in an indirect way) to the consulting (and contacts) was really a poor use of my time.
A better idea time wise, to jump start reputation, and build a rep (in a community like HN if that is what you are trying to do) would be to attempt to do things that are remarkable and get attention. Then people might talk about you and you will have the reputation that you seek that will bring other things that you need.
[1] I also get to meet many interesting people and contacts as well.
What do you think has changed the most for startups today since when you wrote "The Lean Startup"?
But the biggest change is not in all that noise, it's in the fact that entrepreneurial know-how is widely available. When I first started blogging in 2008, there weren't that many startup blogs. Almost no VCs blogged. YC was just beginning and PG's essays were about many different topics, with startups appearing only rarely.
Now new founders are swimming in a sea of knowledge that was previously considered esoteric. I think we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg of what will happen to the global economy now that the genie is out of the bottle. (mixing metaphors a wee bit)
What is your experience with the NSF I-Corps program? Do you know of anyone who has gone through the program and then built a successful company afterwords? Link for those who are unfamiliar. https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/
That's really Steve Blank's domain, but we just had lunch and he filled me in. It sounds absolutely incredible.