"..is that it has led me to abandon lean startup theory" (ribbonfarm.com)

Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3034573

HN really needs a trailing-slash-insensitive equality operator.

Lean startup isn't trying to outpace the customer, it's trying to catch up. It's for people who don't understand what the customer wants.

  > I don’t like being cryptic, but in this case, I am not
  > going to elaborate further

This reminds me of the "The Gervais Principle"[1] from the same guy. That drew people in with an appealing story mapped onto a complex domain in a vague, simplistic way that in the end led to few novel, actionable conclusions. It's great rhetoric, though!

[1] http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...

Did he actually provide any direct critiques of the Lean Startup methodology? As I understood, he just said "don't go too fast", which isn't in any way at odds with being a Lean Startup.