My First Lean Startup Adventure
Are you an impatient social changemaker? Are you looking for different ways to test if your organization’s latest idea can plausibly have impact? Then you might have heard of the Lean Startup, which advocates, “experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over tradition ‘big design up front’ development.”
When my team at Living Cities first read Eric Ries’ book The Lean Startup, we were intrigued, but also curious, what would it really take to apply this methodology in our own work of connecting low-income people to economic opportunity? I took the Lean Startup plunge and now share with others what I learned about applying the methodology in the new Living Cities’ Case Study: My First Lean Startup Adventure: Using Build-Measure-Learn to Support Strong Cross-Sector Partnerships.
Through My First Lean Startup Adventure, you’ll learn:
1. What does it take to apply Build-Measure-Learn? I go step-by-step through all the activities, and estimate the time it took to complete them.
2. What resources can you use to apply Build-Measure-Learn? I share resources that were useful to me in creating my Lean Startup experiment, and share examples of what I created.
3. When is Build-Measure-Learn a waste of time?
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