Lean Startup

Last Updated: May 2025

Lean Startup is a way for a group of people with a product idea to test it with the market and gain rapid feedback on whether the world wants what they’re building. “Love the Problem, Not Your Solution” - Ash Maurya. In this approach, the team work to discover their biggest risk, and then run a small experiment to validate their choices. Lean Startup is the source of the badly misunderstood MVP and the mis-used Pivot.

GenAI makes Lean Startup experiments cheaper and faster, but only if you still run them against real users. We work through this with Product Owners in our Surviving the AI Tsunami course.

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