Chapter 13 — Lean Hardware
9 references
| # | Reference | Links | Status |
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| 1 | Figure 13.3 — Ninja Blender Professional 1000W commons.wikimedia.org | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 2 | Figure 13.4 — Electrum's four phases, from exploration to gate review: a structured path to placing every function — hardware, firmware, app, or cloud — on the right layer before tooling locks the choice in tangibles-book.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 3 | Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (Crown Business, 2011) | ⚪ Print source | |
| 4 | Mark Barrocas, interview with Nilay Patel, The Verge Decoder, "How SharkNinja took over the home," July 7, 2025 theverge.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 5 | Sub-category counts from SharkNinja investor presentations: 31 sub-categories as of March 2024; 38 as of Q4 2025 (SharkNinja Q4 2025 earnings, February 11, 2026, via Quartr quartr.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 6 | Teresa Torres, Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products That Create Customer Value and Business Value (Product Talk LLC, 2021) | ⚪ Print source | |
| 7 | Taiichi Ohno, Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production (Productivity Press, 1988). The "5 Whys" technique, developed by Sakichi Toyoda, asks "why?" iteratively to trace a problem from symptom to root cause | ⚪ Print source | |
| 8 | Electrum is not the first decision structure for IoT product managers. Daniel Elizalde's IoT Decision Framework crosses five technology layers (device hardware, device software, communications, cloud platform, cloud applications) against six decision areas (UX, data, business, technology, security… danielelizalde.com | Archive | 🟢 Archived |
| 9 | Alex Guskov, "If you are planning, pitching, or committing to an IoT project right now, save this list," LinkedIn, May 2026 linkedin.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
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