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<span id="docs-internal-guid-3e452463-827a-5c43-5a25-298f4028195a"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Lean Start Up Movement (LSM) is a paradigm shift in product and business development that was introduced by Steve Blank and further popularized by Eric Ries, the author of the bestselling book </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lean_Startup:_How_Today%27s_Entrepreneurs_Use_Continuous_Innovation_to_Create_Radically_Successful_Businesses <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This concept was initially Inspired by the Japanese “lean manufacturing” concepts from 1980s & 1990s &nbsp;where companies would focus on processes that create value-- more specifically, features and services that customers are willing to pay for. (</span>[http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/07/06/eric-ries-the-face-of-the-lean-startup-movement-on-how-a-once-insane-idea-went-mainstream/?single_page=true <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/07/06/eric-ries-the-face-of-the-lean-startup-movement-on-how-a-once-insane-idea-went-mainstream/?single_page=true</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). By producing minimal viable products, manufactures were able to bring the product to market quickly and iterate based on the feedback received. This is the core of the lean startup movement: rapid prototyping coupled with extensive analysis on customer interactions to pinpoint key values and product-market fit.</span></span><br/><br/>