Talk by Knodes Co-Founder Ron J. Williams (follow: twitter.com/ronjdub) on the challenges of building a Lean Startup and the similarities between that and achieving fitness goals. Talk given 12/3/2012 at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco.

1. Kinda Lean:
Curvy & working out
The Lean Startup Conference - Dec 3, 2012
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2. I’m
@ronjdub
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3. What is my job?
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4. “To thine own self be true”
--Shakespeare, Hamlet
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5. Different
body types
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6. Different startup types?
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7. BML for everything...or else
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8. Telling your team to
BE lean is like a crash diet
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9. “Hey guys! Happy Monday!
I just read this awesome book and we’re going to
start doing these 15 things differently...”
---Me, Spring 2011
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10. Changing bad habits is hard
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11. Get help!
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12. How lean is Lean enough?
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13. BEING Lean isn’t our goal
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14. Our goal is to have fun
creating a product
our customers love
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15. “Just like science,
which also takes human judgement...”
--Eric Ries, at a Google in 2011
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