Ash Maurya introduces "The Innovator's Gift" to help you find problems worth solving, and navigate the uncertainty of new product ideas. He’s the bestselling author of Running Lean and Scaling Lean, and the creator of the lean canvas, one of the most widely-used tools to visualize how the pieces of a new business fit together.

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Links & resources mentioned

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• Ash Maurya - LEANSTACK, Twitter

  • Ash's books:

    • New: Running Lean

    • Scaling Lean

• Related episodes

  • #55: How does continuous discovery come together for a new product?

  • #44 Teresa Torres: Habits for clear thinking and better product bets

• People & orgs

  • Bob Moesta

  • Tom Chi

    • Tom Chi talk @ MindValley: Everything is Connected - Here's How

  • W. Edwards Deming

  • Peter Drucker

  • Steve Blank

  • Eric Ries

  • Dave McClure

  • Sean Ellis

• Books

  • They All Laughed: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives

  • User Story Mapping

  • When Coffee and Kale Compete (JTBD) - Alan Klement

  • Demand-Side Sales - Bob Moesta

  • The ONE Thing

  • Thinking in Systems

• Other resources mentioned

  • Customer forces canvas

  • LEAN canvas

  • Jobs to Be Done (JTBD)

    • The Milkshake Study

  • Recency Bias