" Meh. While I appreciate the concept of "lean startup" it seems it's become an overused buzzword and marketing ploy to sell books, conference attendance, and waste countless hours trying to adapt to someone else's perfected methodology. From the most pessimistic point of view you could say these types of books are written by charlatans who speak in absolutes about their credo and create hype machines. So much time goes in to writing about lean startups, and blogging about lean startups I wonder how much time is left to run lean startups? Not all bad, as I did enjoy many of the ideas about lean launching and testing, but overall this type of shit is not my cup of tea. "
— Julian, 1/21/2014