Chapter 1: Start

Chapter 1: Start

1. Lean thinking: drawing on the knowledge and creativity of individual workers, shrinking batch sizes, just-in-time production and inventory control, acceleration of cycle times.

2. Progress measure: Instead of measuring progress in manufacturing by the production of high-quality physical goods, the lean startup measure progress through validated learning.

3. Build-measure-learn feedback loop: instead of making a lot of assumptions, you can make constant adjustments with a steering wheel called build-measure-learn.

4. Productivity: When people are used to evaluating their productivity locally, they feel that a good day is one in which they did their job well all day. The lean startup asks people to figure out the right thing to build – the thing customers want and will pay for – as quickly as possible.