When startups start to run low on cash, they can extend the runway two ways: by cutting costs or by raising additional funds. But when entrepreneurs … - Eric Ries

Em diversas jurisdições, espanta a quantidade de passos requeridos para constituir uma nova empresa: licenças comerciais, registros de empregos, cobrança de impostos, treinamento obrigatório etc. Além do custo do cumprimento dessas normas, há o ônus psicológico de: 1) ter de aprender quais são todas elas; e 2) se preocupar com a possibilidade de ter deixado escapar uma delas e ser responsabilizado por isso. Na maioria dos lugares, a ignorância sobre as leis não é uma defesa válida, mas as leis atuais se tornaram tão abstratas e complexas que o pleno conhecimento delas é um trabalho de tempo integral

what it does is develop entrepreneurs, because when you have only one test, you don’t have entrepreneurs, you have politicians, because you have to sell. Out of a hundred good ideas, you’ve got to sell your idea. So you build up a society of politicians and salespeople. When you have five hundred tests you’re running, then everybody’s ideas can run. And then you create entrepreneurs who run and learn and can retest and relearn as opposed to a society of politicians.

To introduce Five Whys to an organization, it is necessary to hold Five Whys sessions as new problems come up. Since baggage issues are endemic, they naturally come up as part of the Five Whys analysis and you can take that opportunity to fix them incrementally. If they don’t come up organically, maybe they’re not as big as they seem.