All Posts Tagged ‘product/market fit’

Austin Gardner-Smith

Notes from a Lean Startup Case Study

Last week Cheryl and I did a quick case study about Pinyadda‘s application of the lean startup mentality as part of the lean startup Boston meetup group. There’s a link to the video of the full presentation at the bottom of this post, but I thought I’d run through a couple of the key points  I tried to stress in talking about our experience that I think is worth saying again. But let me also be clear that these are my opinions and not necessarily part of the formal (or informal, for that matter) lean approach.

Being lean is about doing things that make sense and about being efficient, not necessarily about following every step of the ‘methodology’ to a T.

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Cheryl Morris

Lean Startup Customer Discovery & the Value of First Impressions

After a couple weeks of learning lean startup methodologies, I’m left wondering about the value of comparing user first impressions to developed use (and doing so across customer archetypes) in order to discover and validate our customer base.

The business opportunity Pinyadda has recognized is the need for an information system that leverages an individual’s unique social graph to filter the firehose of news articles and blog posts published each day and deliver only the ones that would be most valuable. The Pinyadda team has built a base product that addresses this opportunity and which we believe solves several problems.

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