Lean Startup #1 - Entrepreneurs Are Not in Garage

I will start the series called Lean Startup.  This is what I want to share about the read of a book called The Lean Startup.

"Entrepreneurs are everywhere. You don’t have to work in a garage to be in a startup. The concept of entrepreneurship includes anyone who works within my definition of a startup: A human institution designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty. That means entrepreneurs are everywhere and the Lean Startup approach can work in any size company, even a very large enterprise, in any sector or industry."

We get used to the story that two guys in the garage were working on a great idea. Then, they come up with the best MICROSOFT, GOOGLE, or FACEBOOK (maybe, it is a bit different here that Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in his dorm room, not in a garage). However, it is not going to be the case in real life. I remember when I first used the Windows 95, I think the most beautiful thing Bill Gates invented is the combination ALT + CTRL + DEL, and so you can get out of a lot of crashes in Windows. Through reading The Lean Startup, Eric Ries encourages people to get your idea / product / service out there , run many experiments to test out your assumption, as well as, talk to the real customers whether they like it or not, whether they spend money or not. If NO is the answer for both cases, you have to change it immediately. We are entrepreneurs and we are probably in the delusion of loving our ideas so much. This method will help entrepreneur to wake up earlier to change their path before hitting the wall.

You won’t have the best idea, but you will have the most well-refined idea through many experiments.

In my view, "the startup" concept should be named “the changing agent” concept or “the stretching yourself” concept. It is true in many cases whether you want to work out, you want to change the career, and you want to do something creating the impact in your life. We are all functioning in the uncertainty environment. However, who can take care of yourself, except us? It is turning out the guy who take the most risk will be well off in the long term.

Pushing yourself to the extreme uncertainty, putting yourself in uncomfortable cases, and getting yourself to the cycle trial-and-failure daily are BILLS that will make you GROW.

Pushing and hustling…