It’s all about going in lean for startups, cut down costs, increase productivity, get customer feedback and validation and most importantly, build efficient and quick iterations of their products.

A lean startup plan, on the other hand, requires less time and detail to put together, but must be able to communicate the ...

Over the last few years, the idea of taking on debt versus raising equity capital was anathema to most founders, given how freely venture capital flowed. But debt is a viable and safe alternative ...

Eisenmann, Thomas, Eric Ries, and Sarah Dillard. "Hypothesis-Driven Entrepreneurship: The Lean Startup." Harvard Business School Background Note 812-095, December 2011. (Revised July 2013.) ...

To thrive, startups need to streamline operations, improve quality, and deliver value to customers efficiently. Lean Six Sigma (LSS), a methodology traditionally associated with large corporations ...

It's even more rare for that fast-growing startup to be incredibly lean. WeHeartIt is a Pinterest-like startup that only has 20 employees. More spectacularly, it has only raised $8 million to ...