Published via T: 2015-08-20 14:52:20
There wasn’t yet a Lean Startup, nor a Startup Owner’s Manual. Four Steps to the Epiphany had been written in 2005, but had I known about it, I would have been too stubborn to read it.
At this point, my idea of how great products were built was based on the Hollywoodish mystique of the visionary founder, a vicious narcissistic fantasy that goes something like this:
Everyone outside yourself is a potential distraction and likely an idiot.
Technology is the mother of invention. Understand technology.
If Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.
You know what the market needs, so customer interactions are superfluous.
