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Hassan Mokdad

Hassan Mokdad

Mechanical engineering student at Lebanese American University (LAU) with a PreMed track, interested in energy systems and tech innovation.

Jul 6, 2026

7:33
Why do you believe that we need to emphasize first drafts?
7:37
All right, so as you have mentioned, there is a lot of similarity between my idea and the vision of the Writing and Communication Center, which is basically a crossover product.
7:50
And that is... exactly what the lean startup methodology is all about, you know, and, uh, it all boils down to, uh, something that's called the lean manufacturing revolution, which started with, uh, Taishi Ono and Shigo Shingu, uh, who were developing at Toyota back in the day.
8:13
And, uh, The lean thinking is radically altering the way supply chains and production systems are run.
8:21
So among its tenets are drawing on the knowledge and creativity of individual workers, the shrinking of batch sizes, adjust in time production and inventory control, and acceleration of cycle times.
8:38
So it taught the world the difference between value creating activities and waste and showed how to build quality into products from the inside out.
8:48
So this is where the Lean Startup comes in, where it adapts those ideas to the context of entrepreneurship, proposing that entrepreneurs judge their progress differently from the way other kinds of ventures do.

6 MINS LATER

14:56
So it's quite interesting to see how you can support and help other people take risky moves that others might feel would be uncertain.

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