Jul 8, 2012

Scientists, Lean Startup and creativity

When I told a table full of biologists about Lean Startup, one asked, “doesn’t that mean you’re taking the creativity out of entrepreneurship?”

I replied, “it means we can test our hypotheses and adapt more quickly. If you could have run your PhD experiments in 3 months instead of 3 years, would you have been more or less creative?”

Same goes for your business. If you could eliminate what doesn’t work faster, think that’d make you more creative in your attempts?

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Books & collected practices

Peer Learning Is - a broad look at peer learning around the world, with a focus on practical program design
Mentor Impact - researched the practices used by the startup mentors that really make a difference
Decision Hacks - early-stage startup decisions distilled
Source Institute - open peer learning formats and ops guides, and our internal guide on decentralised teams