Lean in Memes – 10 Lean Startup Ideas Explained in Memes

Feb 20, 2012 2 min readOnline Marketing

Have you yet heard your startup should be Lean? I bet you did.

So with internet memes finally going completely viral and mainstream, thanks to 9gag, Reddit and co, we thought of doing a set of memes just for the Lean Startup.

Here are just a few of the most important concepts of lean startups, explained with the latest internet memes!

Enjoy:

1.) “How minimal should your MVP be?” “Probably much more minimal than you think”

Related post: Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it.

2.) You will never have complete information – act anyway

Related post: Acting with incomplete information in a startup

3.) Good guy Greg startup founder: “Validate your assumptions”

4.) Use 5 Why’s to get to the root cause of a problem

Related post: 5 Whys

5.) Don’t get stuck in “No one cares” land with your idea

Related post: Lean Failure and the Risk of No-Man’s Land, Pivot, don’t jump to a new vision;

6.) Hmm…

Related post: Get the hell outside the building

7.) Scumbag startup founder

8.) Time to rethink A/B Testing?

9.) Don’t bullshit yourself

10.) Maybe Eric Ries screwed us all over

Pro Tip: Personally email your first 1000 signups

Related post: It’s the CEO’s job to email the first 1000 signups

Did you catch them all?

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