Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.

Reading is good, action is better.

In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5 per day, marketing people scoffed and said that is too small to matter. But if you think about it, to an engineer, 100 real humans everyday giving your product a try means you can really start improving.

The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the beginning of the PC revolution that ultimately dealt a death-blow to dozens of older companies.

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.