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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. I love Lean. Create mechanisms to enable experiments.

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Putting an End to Conferences Dominated by White Men

Harvard Business Review

Since 2012, I’ve co-hosted The Lean Startup Conference with Eric Ries. For instance, if you say that you’re looking for people with “advice and expertise to share” rather than “experts,” you avoid suggesting that you’re interested only in people already recognized in the field.