Lean Startup Primer

If you've picked up this book without extensive familiarity with concepts of the Lean startup methodology, this chapter will serve as a quick primer to get you started. If you are already familiar with Lean thinking, then this chapter may serve as a breezy refresher.

Here, we will cover a few key concepts that form the foundation of Lean Startup; namely, we will go over:

• The Business Model Canvas
• The Lean Canvas
• Agile development
• Customer development
• The Minimal Viable Product (MVP)

Knowing these concepts will be important for grasping and applying other lessons in this book, and we would encourage you to take the time to understand them thoroughly.