At Imvu, We Opened Up Our Board

The Goal Of A Startup Is To Figure Out The Right Thing To Build-the Thing Customers Want And Will Pay For-as Quickly As Possible. In Other Words, The Lean Startup Is A New Way Of Looking At The Development Of Innovative New Products That Emphasizes Fast Iteration And Customer Insight, A Huge Vision, And Great Ambition, All At The Same Time.

Progress In Manufacturing Is Measured By The Production Of High Quality Goods. The Unit Of Progress For Lean Startups Is Validated Learning-a Rigorous Method For Demonstrating Progress When One Is Embedded In The Soil Of Extreme Uncertainty.

The Big Question Of Our Time Is Not Can It Be Built? But Should It Be Built? This Places Us In An Unusual Historical Moment: Our Future Prosperity Depends On The Quality Of Our Collective Imaginations.

Learning To See Waste And Systematically Eliminate It Has Allowed Lean Companies Such As Toyota To Dominate Entire Industries. Lean Thinking Defines Value As 'providing Benefit To The Customer'; Anything Else Is Waste.

I Asked All Of Our Recruiters To Give Me All Resumes Of Prospective Employees With Their Name, Gender, Place Of Origin, And Age Blacked Out. This Simple Change Shocked Me, Because I Found Myself Interviewing Different-looking Candidates - Even Though I Was 100% Convinced That I Was Not Being Biased In My Resume Selection Process.