Ash Maurya is the author of the international bestseller Running Lean and the creator of the one-page business modeling tool Lean Canvas. His new book is Scaling Lean: Master the Key Metrics for Startup Growth. Ash is praised for offering some of the best and most practical advice for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs all over the world. Driven by the search for better and faster ways for building successful products, Ash has developed a systematic methodology for raising the odds of success built upon lean startup, customer development, and bootstrapping techniques. Ash is also a leading business blogger; his posts and advice have been featured in Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and Fortune. He regularly hosts sold-out workshops around the world; serves as a mentor to several accelerators, including TechStars, MaRS, and Capital Factory; and guest lectures at several universities, including MIT, Harvard, and UT Austin. Ash serves on the advisory board of a number of startups and has consulted to new and established companies.
