the lean startup

The hardest part of being the lean engine inside a large organisation is convincing the people in it that small things are worth paying attention to.

To a black man in 1960s America, being heard – his valued and counted – must have meant the world. In startup language, that is proto customer development. Don Draper would have given Eric Ries a run for his money.

Sure it’s 4am and most people are still fast asleep, but there are a big group of crazy entrepreneur types who decided to get up early / are still awake because they have been up coding, or are just really interested in the lean startup methodology that are hanging out at Fishburners in Ultimo to see this mother go down. Since we are here, let’s Live Blog this shit!