How We Used Lean to Start:

Pre Process:(1st Week of December 2012)

Team Ideation:(2nd Week of December 2012)

Customer Interviews:(Late-December to Early-January 2013)

1st MVP:(Mid-January 2013)

2nd MVP:(February 2013)

We Can Build That:(March 2013)

Iterate & Validate:(April 2013)

Learn Funnel Metrics(May - June 2013)

Sharpen Value Prop & Roadmap(June - July 2013)

First Paying Customers(July 2013)

Manage Customers Closely(Q3 2013)

Build 2.0(Q3 2013)

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Re-launch(October 2013)

On-Board Customers(Q4 2013)

Fix Blockers(Q1 2014)

Re-launch(March 2014)

1. Require a commitment from customer

2. Confirm pricing

3. Continuous deployment

4. Don’t worry about visual design at first..but do focus on UX

5. Listen for patterns...then build

6. Delete code

Best Practices..I Think