Quotes About Adaptation

Yet if the fundamental goal of entrepreneurship is to engage in organization building under conditions of extreme uncertainty, its most vital function is learning.

Validated learning

As is typically the case in large-batch development, both groups had been willing to sacrifice the team's ability to learn in order to work more "efficiently.

exist to learn how to build a sustainable business.

engineers agree to adapt the product to the business's constantly changing requirements but are not responsible for the quality of those business decisions.

This is a classic case of "achieving failure"—successfully executing a flawed plan.

we figure out what we need to learn and then work backwards to see what product will work as an experiment to get that learning.

Innovation accounting

Los sistemas que tan bien funcionan en las empresas pequeñas no pueden trasladarse al ecosistema más grande que necesitan las empresas en crecimiento, por lo que la empresa llega a un punto de estancamiento.

Instead of making complex plans that are based on a lot of assumptions, you can make constant adjustments with a steering wheel called the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop.

We must be willing to set aside our traditional professional standards to start the process of validated leaming as soon as possible. But once again, this does not mean operating in a sloppy or undisciplined wa

The Lean Startup adapts these ideas to the context of entrepreneurship, proposing that entrepreneurs judge their progress differently from the way other kinds of ventures do.

I've made billions of dollars of failures at Amazon.com. Literally. None of these things are fun, but they also don't matter. What matters is that companies that don't continue to experiment or embrace failure eventually get in the position where the only thing they can do is make a Hail Mary bet at the end of their corporate existence. I don't believe in bet-the-company bets.

old management methods are not up to the task. Planning and forecasting

if management is the problem, chaos is the answer.

Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer's problem."4

make constant adjustments with a steering wheel called the Build-Measure-Learn feedback

We adopted the view that our job was to find a synthesis between our vision and what customers would accept; it wasn't to capitulate to what customers thought they wanted or to tell customers what they ought to want.

In other words, the startup has to find ways to achieve the same amount of validated learning at lower cost or in a shorter time.

our current educational system was designed in the era of mass production and uses large batches extensively.

Potbelly Sandwich Shop, which today has over two hundred stores. It began as an antique store in 1977;

In the Lean Startup model, every product, every feature, every marketing campaign—everything a startup does—is understood to be an experiment designed to achieve validated learning.

BUILD-MEASURE-LEARN FEEDBACK LOOP

Sólo se puede crear algo sólido y resistente a largo plazo cuando se crean ecosistemas vivos de ideas y mecanismos para lograr que las mejores lleguen rápido al mercado.