The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
A methodology for developing products through validated learning and rapid iteration
"The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else."
— Eric Ries
My Review
Ries' build-measure-learn loop is evolutionary iteration applied to product development. The emphasis on validated learning, minimum viable products, and pivots maps directly to biological concepts of variation, selection, and adaptation. Essential for understanding organizational metabolism.
Why It Matters
Lean Startup methodology is evolutionary iteration applied to business. The emphasis on variation (experiments), selection (customer validation), and rapid iteration maps directly to biological adaptation.
Key Ideas
- Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop drives innovation
- Minimum Viable Product tests hypotheses with minimum resources
- Pivot: change strategy while preserving vision
- Innovation accounting measures learning, not just outcomes
How It Connects to This Framework
Book 2's metabolic efficiency concepts and Book 6's mutation and selection framework. Lean methodology is biological adaptation applied to product development.
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