From concept to social impact (and cash): a lean startup in the financial world

We developped and launched an innovative crowdfunding platform based on 0% loans within 6 months time. hellomerci.com, borrow from those who care, helps people with personal or entrepreneurial projects get loans and energy from their community and the people. How a 4-people team has built and is now running such a complex system? How we managed (and sometimes failed) to connect a highly productive team with a much slower external environment? What are the cultural conflicts that arise when people with a "minimum marketable feature" vision meet people with an "all-must-be-perfect" approach? To which extent can you be lean with such tensions? Beyond this product, Pierre Pezziardi will share the profound motives of this initiative. Today most Management Informations Systems replicate the organizational patterns of division and control at the heart of large companies. The management crisis most of them are facing are rooted in these patterns. Hence, lean IT often helps those organizations do the wrong thing faster... It is possible though to build systems that foster trust, mutual aid and sharing. How can we build "wikipedia-like" open platforms in large organizations?