Lean Blog Interviews

My guests for episode #162 are Patrick Vlaskovits (@pv) and Brant Cooper (@brantcooper), previously guests on episode #99. I recently ran into them at the Lean Startup Conference and today we are speaking about their newest book (coming in February) The Lean Entrepreneur: How to Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets. You can learn more and pre-order via their website: www.LeanEntrepreneur.co In this episode, we talk about: - What is Lean Entrepreneurship? - How does Lean create disruptive innovations? - Why is it better to fail fast and learn your idea isn't viable sooner rather than later? - Why is "follow your passion" really bad advice? - What's a value stream in the context of a startup? - Why would data "inform decisions" rather than make them? Their books: - The Lean Entrepreneur: How to Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Market - The Entrepreneur2019s Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany To point others to this,