Can I ask what specifically you have used successfully and with what results have come of applying the Lean Startup methodology?It's early to say, as we're still in the first phase of Customer Development at the moment. But we've been following the methodology fairly closely to "by the book" and feel pretty good about what we've learned as we've gone. As we're starting to ask customers to prioritize the problems we're discussing in the Problem Presentation phase, we're expecting that will help us start to prioritize feature development. Also, some of the stuff from the problem hypothesis brief will probably transfer fairly directly into marketing collateral.
It also scares me regarding the community of entrepreneurs out there when someone questions the mindset of someone taking a contrarian view to the Lean Startup.
Sure, that makes sense. I'm a contrarian by nature myself, and I always advocate questioning orthodoxy. That said, I'm a big fan of the Customer Development methodology so far.
Putting shit out in the consumer space especially can be an instant death, and that's fact not opinion. If I was working for a B2B startup I would be much more likely to agree with you.
Yeah, we're doing B2B, so my take may be a bit different than somebody who's doing a consumer app.
