Table of Contents

Foreword xiii

Introduction 1

Part I Inspire

One Innovation Is the Path, Impact Is the Destination 13

Two What Is Your Audacious Goal? 27

Three Love the Problem, Not Your Solution 39

Four Finding the “Big Idea” 53

Five Lessons from The Lean Startup 61

Part II Validate

Six Start Small, Iterate Fast 85

Seven Value 105

Eight Growth 129

Nine Impact 155

Part III Transform

Ten Systems Change 181

Eleven Financing Innovation 191

Twelve A Message to Funders 209

Thirteen Making It Stick 229

Fourteen A World of Impact 243

Disclosures 261

Acknowledgments 263

About the Author 269

Index 271

About the Author

ANN MEI CHANG is the Executive Director of Lean Impact at Lean Startup Company. Previously, she served at USAID (one of the largest funders of international development) as Chief Innovation Officer and the Executive Director of the U.S. Global Development Lab. Prior to her pivot to social good, Ann Mei was a seasoned Silicon Valley executive, with more than twenty years' experience at such leading companies as Google, Apple, and Intuit, as well as a number of startups.