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One of the biggest possible wastes of time and effort… is when a team designs and builds a product, yet, when they finally release the product, they find that people won’t buy it.

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The financial cost of having an unhealthy organization is undeniable: wasted resources and time, decreased productivity, increased employee turnover, and customer attrition.

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With scientific learning as our yardstick, we can discover and eliminate the sources of waste that are plaguing entrepreneurship.

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…which of our efforts are value-creating and which are wasteful? This question is at the heart of the lean manufacturing revolution…

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…by focusing our energies on validated learning, we can avoid much of the waste that plagues startups today.

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The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what [is] required to start learning is waste, no matter how important in might [seem] at the time.

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Minimizing rework is a key tactic for eliminating waste… [but] you will have some rework… It is an iterative process…

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Working in smaller batch sizes increases velocity because they enable faster feedback, which reduces risk and waste.

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We need to start thinking about waste as a forward-looking problem, not a backward-looking one. That means realizing that spending another minute or another dollar or another bit of effort on something that is no longer worthwhile is the real waste.

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No one… is busy every minute of the workday. They might say they are or look like they are, but there are a lot of wasted minutes in every day…

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