As an early believer in Lean Startup movement, I can perhaps be excused for my unbridled enthusiasm for the release of Eric Ries’ new book, The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Not however, for the reasons you might expect. Hence the chasm.). MORE >>

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup. Lets see why. Something else? Order Here. MORE >>

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Building a product is a critical part of a startup, but just implementing build, measure, learn without a framework to understand customers, channel, pricing, etc. The Lean LaunchPad was designed to fill that void. Team D.C. MORE >>

I see so much crap being written for and against Lean Startups that I thought it was worth setting my simple thoughts down on what lean means to me. I am not attempting to rewrite Eric Ries but rather to give a layman's view of lean as an applicable set of principles.  . Lean is a hard and disciplined method. Conclusion. MORE >>

Open Source to the Rescue The more I delve into the bevy of open source tools and frameworks the more Im stunned when I see poorly executed applications. The Minimum Viable Product Dissected Lean Office Design for the Bootstrapped Startup Porter's Five Forces, Web 2.0 Web 2.0 The second and more powerful choice is Hibernate Search. MORE >>