The founder of Dropbox, Drew Houston had an idea.
But, once he discovered Eric Ries’s Lean Startup blog, he put these lean ideas into action.
What happened?
Well, for starters, the company began rapidly iterating. This meant that they develop a product that customers wanted much faster than they expected. Nice.
But, the story doesn’t end there.
By following the principles, in just over 15 months, Dropbox went from having 100,000 registered users to more than four million.
Here the story from Houston himself.
Dropbox – Startups lessons learned
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