Vanity Metrics Are The Numbers

The Lean Startup Method Is Not About Cost, It Is About Speed.

The Lesson Of The Mvp Is That Any Additional Work Beyond What Was Required To Start Learning Is Waste, No Matter How Important It Might Have Seemed At The Time.

Entrepreneurs Always Pitch Their Idea As 'the X Of Y,' So This Is Going To Be 'the Microsoft Of Food.' And Yet Disruptive Innovations Usually Don't Have That Character. Most Of The Time, If Something Seems Like A Good Idea, It Probably Isn't.

When Blame Inevitably Arises, The Most Senior People In The Room Should Repeat This Mantra: If A Mistake Happens, Shame On Us For Making It So Easy To Make That Mistake.

The Grim Reality Is That Most Start-ups Fail. Most New Products Are Not Successful. Yet The Story Of Perseverance, Creative Genius, And Hard Work Persists.