@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 …

Great discussion by Eric Ries on Minimum Viable Products. What people often don’t realize is that the best minimum viable product is often not building a product at all. Venture Hacks mentions “sometimes all you need is an ad on Google. Or a PowerPoint slide. Or a dialog box. Or a landing page. You can often build it in a day or a week.”
What Is The Minimum Viable Product?

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