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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

Lean was designed to inform the founder’s vision to operate at speed, not as a focus group for consensus for those without deep convictions. In short, lean was an answer to a specific problem, one that most entrepreneurs still face and that ebbs and flows depending on capital markets.

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A Surprising Way to Jump-Start Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

That''s what entrepreneur Steven Ma is betting on with his company ThinkTank Learning, which "makes bets on student admissions the way a trader plays the commodities markets." The doctors could essentially use the model to do a dress rehearsal before the operation.

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Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products

Harvard Business Review

They expect quality, and use it both as a selection criteria for purchase and as a constraint for sustained use. Many pre-funding startups – the primary audience of Lean – are built on nights and weekends by entrepreneurs who are driven by a need to change the world.