Lean Start Up

Hello, listeners, members, and subscribers! Our fifteenth Moonshots Master episode is here and we are leaping into Entrepreneurship and Lean Start-Up, one of the most valuable methodologies we have ever used!

Kicking off with the team from Productivity Game, we hear a breakdown of Eric Ries’ experience at imvu and how there is so much value in learning what customers actually want. We also get inspired from the folks at Development That Pays, who tell us about the very best MVPs of all time.

As we look to understand more about Lean we go to the master himself, Eric Ries, who teaches us how to utilise a Lean methodology when building your product. Dan Martell then talks about his ‘problem, pain, passion’ framework that he uses to validate business ideas, and how we should never build a business backwards.

Now we’re ready to learn about adopting the habits and framework, we revisit Productivity Game who guides us with the steps to building an MVP. Closing out the Master series episode we have Eric Ries again, who reassures us that many startups have ‘pivoted’ their strategy, and then gone on to become thriving companies.

Our recommended reading list will help you go even deeper into the topic and our shows on Lean Start Up:

1. Eric Ries, The Lean Startup

2. Bill Gross, Timing Is The Single Biggest Reason Why Startups Succeed

3. Ash Maurya, Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth

4. Sean Ellis, Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

5. Steve Magness, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

6. Harvard Business Review, Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything

What key lesson are you taking from the Master Series shows? Get in touch and let us know! Thanks for listening. That’s a wrap.