Book Titles

The Lean Startup
How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

By Eric Ries

Year Published: 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-88789-4
Categories: Innovation, Lean, Startups

150 Quotes Found

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The Lean Startup:

The grim reality is that most startups fail.

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The Lean Startup:

Startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

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The Lean Startup:

With scientific learning as our yardstick, we can discover and eliminate the sources of waste that are plaguing entrepreneurship.

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The Lean Startup:

The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build – the thing customers want and will pay for – as quickly as possible.

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The Lean Startup:

…the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.

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The Lean Startup:

…in general management, a failure to deliver results is due to either a failure to plan adequately or a failure to execute properly.

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The Lean Startup:

A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

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The Lean Startup:

…a startup is not just about a product, a technological breakthrough, or even a brilliant idea. A startup is greater than the sum of its parts; it is an acutely human enterprise.

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The Lean Startup:

…the broadest definition of product… encompasses any source of value for the people who become customers.

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The Lean Startup:

Most tools from general management are not designed to flourish in the harsh soil of extreme uncertainty in which startups thrive.

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