Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works by Ash Maurya takes the reader through the business start up and innovation process from a Lean perspective. He introduces a four-stage process designed to accelerate the work of developing viable products that customers will value. Like most work, the start up and innovation process can easily be plagued by wasted efforts, whether due to too much planning, confirmation bias in product testing, and falling in love with developer driven features of little use to customers. One of Maurya’s innovations introduced in this book should be of particular interest to building project owners and designers. His “Lean Canvas” is designed to capture a business model on a single A3 size sheet of paper.
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Like a problem solving A3, the approach forces a deeper level of thinking to achieve a concise distillation of the business problem and customer segments along with the financial metrics that support the solutions to be tested. With some modification this canvas may help project teams better define a building solution at the earliest stage of the planning – it’s worth testing. The book makes an important point about the need for continued testing of ideas with customers.
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Customers play a role in defining value, yet they do so in the context of being part of a conversation with suppliers, investors, and the people performing the work that needs to be continually tested during the development phase. One interpretation of this point is that no one group, including customers, owns the value defining role exclusively. Project start up work has much in common with business start up work. For building professionals involved in the early planning of projects, Running Lean is recommended reading.
We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We're building more products than ever before, but most of them fail-not because we can't complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product.What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That's the promise of Running Lean. In this inspiring book, Ash Maurya takes you through an exacting strategy for achieving a 'product/market fit' for your fledgling venture, based on his own experience in building a wide array of products from high-tech to no-tech.
Throughout, he builds on the ideas and concepts of several innovative methodologies, including the Lean Startup, Customer Development, and bootstrapping. Running Lean is an ideal tool for business managers, CEOs, small business owners, developers and programmers, and anyone who's interested in starting a business project. Find a problem worth solving, then define a solution. Engage your customers throughout the development cycle. Continually test your product with smaller, faster iterations. Build a feature, measure customer response, and verify/refute the idea. Know when to 'pivot' by changing your plan's course.
Maximize your efforts for speed, learning, and focus. Learn the ideal time to raise your 'big round' of funding. Ash Maurya is the author of the international bestseller “Running Lean: How to Iterate from Plan A to a plan that works” and the creator of the one-page business modeling tool “Lean Canvas”.
Ash is praised for offering some of the best and most practical advice for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs all over the world. Driven by the search for better and faster ways for building successful products, Ash has developed a systematic methodology for raising the odds of success built upon Lean Startup, Customer Development, and Bootstrapping techniques. Ash is also a leading business blogger and his posts and advice have been featured in Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and Fortune.
He regularly hosts sold out workshops around the world and serves as a mentor to several accelerators including TechStars, MaRS, Capital Factory, and guest lecturers at several universities including MIT, Harvard, and UT Austin. Ash serves on the advisory board of a number of startups, and has consulted to new and established companies.
Ash lives in Austin, TX. 'If you are starting a company, or want to adopt the Lean Startup approach, Running Lean is a must read.' - Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundary Group 'Ash has put together a book I wish I'd read before pursuing my own startup. The level of detail, including case studies and practical applications, make this book a resource worthy of sitting on every aspiring entrepreneur's shelf.'
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-Rand Fishkin, CEO and Cofounder, SEOmoz; Coauthor, The Art of SEO 'Ash has laid out a clear compass for anyone to validate their ideas, solve real problems and create a successful business. I'd encourage this book to anyone trying to get a business off the ground.' - Noah Kagan, Chief Sumo of AppSumo.com 'Lean concepts are exciting but it's hard to know what to actually do. Ash not only gives advice but makes it practicable-this is the first comprehensive guidebook for how to execute a Lean Startup.' - Jason Cohen, founder of WP Engine & Smart Bear. 'Ash provides compelling, actionable guidance for applying lean principles to a startup. His startup canvas changed the way I think about my own startup.
This book is a valuable guide whether you are a serial entrepreneur or a first time founder.' - Sean Ellis, Founder & CEO of CatchFree 'Easily one of the best technical books on Lean Startup ever written. End of point. Dan Martell, Founder of Clarity.fm & Angel Investor.