It’s never a bad time to start a good business. Game-changing companies like 3M and Microsoft were started during recessions. If you’re introducing a new product or service that enough people really need, then you’ve an opportunity to create a ton of value. So why do most startups fail?

Veteran entrepreneur Eric Ries observed that most fail for common and avoidable reasons. With this insight he developed the Lean Startup method to avoid many pitfalls that trip up otherwise great ventures. The three tenets Ries proposed include:

  1.  “Out of the Building” Customer Development: an unwavering focus on real customers, regularly pivoting the product or service concept based on early real-world customer feedback;

  2.  Agile Development Methodologies: software methodologies that support and embrace constant change; and

  3.  Free and Open Source Software: use of low cost and high quality technical tools.

At Agile Digital we draw on the focus and power of the Lean Startup method to deliver game-changing software products for entrepreneurs with great ideas.   Read more…