This makes them very useful for lean startups where every member of a small team has to wear several hats.

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But on the whole, with the right type of project and right team configuration, they can make for very lean startups and efficient value creation.

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Perhaps all the talk of customer development, lean startups, crowdsourcing, and the myriad bits of startup lingo has obscured the simplest truth: Starting is about problem-identifying and problem-solving.

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Eric, Tom Eisenmann at Harvard and myself are working on an article to briefly describe Lean Startups and Eric is publishing a book on Lean Startups but let me give you the elevator version.

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Startups are typically lean and even the well-funded ones are well-served to think like a lean companies to avoid squandering resources.

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Validation Board : Made for startups, the platform allows users to test their company idea and implement Lean Startup practices into their everyday processes.

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