It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.

The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.

Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.

I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in marketing, every conversation you have, everything you do - is an experiment. If you can conceptualize your work not as building features, not as launching campaigns, but as running experiments, you can get radically more done with less effort.

In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.

By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.