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What does it mean to go lean?

Going lean means to minimize your product as much as possible to the point where you can solve your customer’s problem with your solution and get the maximum amount of customer feedback with a MINIMAL product. Ideally if you can solve your customer’s problem with very little technology, very little user interface and very little design – then do it. Minimize features as much as possible! Also, constantly get customers to validate your solution while you’re building the product.

I wish I did that for my first start up, MyFitSolution.com, but instead I took the MBA strategy. I guess I shouldn’t be upset about it, because I did talk to potential customers, surveyed potential customers  and talked to CEOs of successful Web Companies. I tried my best to learn what I could before I plunged into the Start Up world. Continue reading →