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Imagine you had aliens as customers. From my experience, this is much better than assuming we know them well and completely understand what would best serve them. If they are alien to you: How would you discover their pain-points or problems to solve? How would you validate you got the solutions right? Even if they… Read More
The notion of Lean Staffing is best paired with the concept of The Lean Startup. In his insightful book The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Eric Ries speaks of his startup lessons learned at IMVU and from many other companies he came to know afterwards including Intuit.… Read More
In his book, The Lean Startup, Eric Ries writes about the processes we used at IMVU to get Minimal Viable Products out there as experiments to observe the customer adoption as the prototypical Lean Startup. I stepped in after Eric went off to evangelize Lean Startup principles to the industry. I remember an experiment we… Read More