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What the MVP Actually Taught Me Five Years Later
I read The Lean Startup in 2020 when I was three months into a side project that was slowly absorbing every weekend I had. The book told me to ship earlier than felt comfortable and to measure the thing I was most afraid to measure. I did both. The results were clarifying in a way that hurt and helped at the same time. Five years on, the project is gone and the lessons are the most useful I have kept.


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5 Years Since Reading

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Reading The Lean Startup
4 Emotionally hard
5 Most important
4 Hard in moment
3 Abstract

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Side projects started with lean methodology

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2020-03-15T00:00:00Z
2020-06-20T00:00:00Z

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The lean startup is not about cutting corners. It is about learning faster. Those are not the same thing and the book earns its reputation most in that distinction.