As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribu… - Eric Ries

All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.

The Lean Startup takes its name from the lean manufacturing revolution that Taiichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo are credited with developing at Toyota. Lean thinking is radically altering the way supply chains and production systems are run. Among its tenets are drawing on the knowledge and creativity of individual workers, the shrinking of batch sizes, just-in-time production and inventory control, and an acceleration of cycle times. It taught the world the difference between value-creating activities and waste and showed how to build quality into products from the inside out.

if the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed — at seeing what happens — but won’t necessarily gain validated learning. This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.