The Ignobel Awards of Startup/Hustle Advice
The Lean Startup Methodology and Pomodoro Technique are deserving of Ignobel Awards for bad startup advice
The Lean Startup/MVP Methodology
It is received wisdom that building an MVP to validate that a market exists for a product is the most effective way to start up.
Well, this is only true if you are building a greenfield product where you get to chart the course of the product.
Say you are launching a restaurant. The Lean Startup version of a restaurant would be one without dishwashers and signature dishes which were store bought microwave dinners.
Problems with the The Lean Startup Methodology
It is ill defined. No one actually knows what Lean Startups look like. The problem with Lean Startups is that it is like Agile. Every team claims to be Agile but no two Agile practices are alike or even fungible.
If staying Lean could either mean throwing up a landing page to collect emails or spending billions to develop an Apple Vision Pro (starting price $3500) to iterate and improve over the course of years, the problem is with the definition of Lean, not its practitioners.
