@dhh vs @ericries from Farhan Rehman on Vimeo.
The video above is shows an excellent debate between the lean startup vs. getting real methodology to build businesses: Daniel Heinemeier Hansson (co-founder of 37 Signals and co-author of Getting Real and Rework) and Eric Ries (founder of IMVU and father of the lean startup movement). Hansson is very much of the mindset that today’s early-stage companies aren’t focused on the only metric that matters in business: profit. If today’s so-called successful startups like Facebook or Twitter charged their customers from day one, they …

Recently, I sat down with some close friends who’ve wanted to learn more about Pocket Tales, and each time the same question seems to arise – “so where did you learn how to start and build a company?” Sometimes I struggle to answer the question. I’d tell them, “I just started a company and learned along the way,” but that answer wasn’t appeasing to any of them. They wanted something more tangible and concrete. In their defense, the answer does seem ludicrous, doesn’t it? Think about this – the first …