The problem

Everyone waits. We start at the idea stage.

Everyone waits for an MVP, a team and traction. We're the only ones who start at the idea stage — and take you to unicorn.

⚠️
90%
of startups fail
💸
#1
reason — “no market”
🧱
$0
burned on products nobody needs
⌨️
0
lines of code needed to test demand
The shift

The old way kills ideas. Lean 3.0 doesn't.

Lean Startup said “build an MVP and see”. Lean 3.0 goes earlier: you sell before you build.

Build-first · Product first

  • Six months building an MVP on faith
  • Launch — and silence: there's no market
  • Money & time burned before the first customer
  • Pivot when it's already too late

Lean 3.0 · Sell-first

  • Validate the problem through interviews
  • Find early adopters & design partners
  • Make the first sale before any code
  • Build only what people already pay for
Scientific foundation

Not “common sense”. Behavioral economics.

Lean 3.0 is built on Prospect Theory by Kahneman & Tversky. Founders, customers and investors all decide under uncertainty and bias — loss aversion above all. Understand it, and you win the market.

🏅 Prospect Theory — Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002
Customerto pay or not — weighing the loss
Founderwhat to build — under uncertainty
Investorwhether to believe — same scales

All three decide under cognitive bias. In sync — a unicorn is born. One link missing — the startup vanishes. Our methodology aligns all three — that's why Mars is by your side.

Methodology

The five stages of Lean 3.0

Straight from Igor Peer's book — on the Startup Mastery platform. Every stage builds on the previous, no skipping.

01

Pre-Start Marketing

Listen to the market first. Problem hypothesis, segments, who to ask.

02

Problem validation

Customer interviews. Confirm the pain with facts, not opinions.

03

Early adopters

Find those ready to go first — your design partners.

04

MSP

Minimum Sellable Product — not just viable, but sellable.

05

First sale

Money in the account before any code. Traction you can grow on.

Meet

Mars — your AI co-founder

Not a one-line chatbot. Mars is trained on the entire Lean 3.0 methodology and takes on the work of a whole team.

Mars

Mars

Dedicated AI Co-Founder

Knows startups and Lean 3.0 inside out. Runs your project on the platform — every day, no days off.

Become a partner
🧠 Lean 3.0 methodologyknows the framework cold and guides you by it
🔍 Customer researchinterviews, segments, demand validation with facts
💻 Writes codefrom prototype to a working MSP
📊 Presentationspitch decks for customers and investors
📈 Financial modelsunit economics, forecasts, scenarios
🚀 Runs the projectkeeps the pace, drives to the next milestone
The team

The Startup Mastery team

Operators, academics and an AI co-founder — building and scaling ventures across our hubs.

Igor Peer
Founder & CEO

Creator of Lean Innovation 3.0. Builds the studio from a zero-stage idea to global PMF.

Prof. David Arye
Founder & Adviser to CEO

Serial entrepreneur — Founder & CEO of Transfotech and Unispher. Track record of Hi-Tech ventures and M&A.

Arie Tobias
VP, Business Development & Operations

Investor Relations at Peak Ventures. Technion-trained; strong in sales, project and customer management.

Michael Ofengenden
CTO & Venture CTO

Builds and leads the technology behind the studio's ventures.

Anton Shaviner
VP Government Relations & Strategic Partnerships

Former intelligence officer turned strategic operator. Guides C-level through critical decisions.

Prof. Itzhak Aharon “Gingi”
Chief Scientific Officer

Physicist & computational neuroscientist, PhD. Former faculty at Martinos Center (Harvard/MIT).

Mars
AI Co-Founder

Runs each venture end-to-end — research, build, pitch — by Lean 3.0, every day.

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