Eric Ries in conversation with David Heinemeier Hansson

by admin on May 21, 2010 in Bootstrapping, Customer Development, Lean Startup | Comments

Two iconic entrepreneurs, Eric Ries of Lean Startup and David Heinemeier Hansson of 37 Signals in their first debate, which was hosted at Leancamp London by Salim Virani. They get into:

• Should I charge from the start?
• How do I know I’m on the right track?
• When is venture-funding a good or bad?
• What are the most important things I should measure?
• Can I prove a big business at small scale?
• Are startups different from any other businesses?
• What does viability mean? Is it a useful thing to focus on?
• Is finding a business model really anything more than finding something that people will buy?
• Should I build something for people like me, or for others?
• How can I know if what I’m making is crap, or if it’s just not getting in front of the right customers?
• How can I train my design skills with customer feedback?

Thanks to @farhan for recording this.