"I came to reject that line of thinking" : when we fail, as many of us do, we have the ready made excuse, we didn't have the right stuff!! We weren't visionary enough or we weren't in the right place at the right.
"It's the boring stuff that matters the most"
Steve Bank: his investor had just began preaching a new idea: The business and the marketing functions of a startup should be considered as important as engineering and product development.
He called that methodology: Customer Development
The pricinciples of the lean startup 1) Entrepreneurs are everywhere: A human institution that is designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty
2) Entrepreneurship is management
3) validated learning: startups do not just exist they exist to learn how to build sustainable business.
4) Build-Measure-learn
5) innovation accounting: ... and the people who hold them accountable. This just reminded me I need a PA <page 18>
A human institution designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
The Next Industrial Revolution, what do know about it
Another thought from this book that I like: Eric Ries proposes thay Magic and genius are not the necessary ingredients for success. He proposes a scientific process that can be learned and replicated.
I love the of this Book: How today's Entrepreneurs Use continues innovation to create radically Successful business
What's meaning of radical though from context.
the word "radically" means to a very great extent, dramatically, or in a way that is fundamentally different from the norm.