It is also important that you don’t discount the value of content curation in this situation. You can take valuable content and test it out with your audience without too much effort at all. That doesn’t mean that you don’t have to come up with original content as well. You can share a combination of the two.
It's great to see the idea of Lean Content spread over the Web in general and to content marketers in particular.
Carolyn Cohn lists a number of practices and techniques to iterate on your content strategy and make it lean. Going through cycles of iteration helps identify the valuable stuff, the pain points and the ROI. Among this techniques, she mentions content curation as a good way to get started and we couldn't agree more: before making an investment to create massive amount of content on a certain area, a pragmatic design-to-cost approach can be to curate content and see what resonates with your target audience.