First Post: Trying to Be Lean

The lean startup process

So I thought I’d start this whole blogging thing early, and try and not only get in the habit of writing but sharing some thoughts on our process, too.

We’re big fans of the lean startup here (want to see my problem presentation?), so as we’re building out the initial, extremely rudimentary version of our service, we’re trying to collect as much customer feedback as possible, to understand the kind of service that will prove valuable enough for people to pay for.

It’s just too difficult to build something on the promise that some VC sugar-daddy might come in an invest hundreds of thousands of dollars, especially when really, we don’t even need or want that right now. I mean, yeah, it’d be cool and all, and we’d spend the money, but I suspect our days would be filled with conversations about office rents, desks, hiring, and lots of impressive whiteboarding — and we’d have a lot less time to sit down and talk with people to try and understand whether we’re missing some key ingredient in our approach.

I want to try and share as much as I can about the daily decisions we’re working through. I’m hoping it helps us walk the walk, and maybe you’ll find it interesting as well.