Product & Innovation

Lean Startup

Build-Measure-Learn methodology

Validate ideas fast with Eric Ries's Build-Measure-Learn methodology. This skill equips your AI agent with lean thinking — from defining MVPs and setting up experiments to pivoting based on validated learning instead of gut feelings.

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

The Lean Startup

by Eric Ries

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What your agent learns

Build-Measure-Learn

The core feedback loop — build the smallest thing, measure what matters, learn whether to pivot or persevere.

Minimum Viable Product

Ship the simplest version that lets you start learning — a landing page, concierge service, or wizard-of-oz test.

Validated Learning

Track actionable metrics that prove progress toward a sustainable business, not vanity metrics.

Innovation Accounting

Measure progress with leap-of-faith assumptions, cohort analysis, and pivot-or-persevere decisions.

The Pivot

A structured course correction — change strategy without changing vision when metrics show the current path won't work.

Eric Ries

Pioneer of the Lean Startup movement

Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author who pioneered the Lean Startup movement. He co-founded IMVU and has advised startups, large enterprises, and venture capital firms on applying lean principles to innovation.

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Try these with the skill installed

Define an MVP scope for my marketplace idea using lean-startup skill

Product planning

Design a validation experiment for our new feature hypothesis using lean-startup skill

Experimentation

Set up innovation accounting metrics for our startup using lean-startup skill

Metrics

Help me decide whether to pivot or persevere based on these metrics using lean-startup skill

Strategy

Install Lean Startup

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