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

Quote Image Quote Page Number

The Lean Startup:

Startups need organizational structures that combat the extreme uncertainty that is a startup’s chief enemy.

181

The Lean Startup:

Contrary to common belief, lethargy and bureaucracy are not the inevitable fate of companies as they achieve maturity.

182

The Lean Startup:

Today’s companies must learn to master a management portfolio of sustainable and disruptive innovation.

183

The Lean Startup:

…in process-oriented work… individual performance is not nearly as important as the overall performance of the system.

185

The Lean Startup:

…by reducing batch size, we can get through the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop more quickly than our competitors.

192

The Lean Startup:

The ability to learn faster from customers is the essential competitive advantage that startups must possess.

193

The Lean Startup:

Small batches pose a challenge to managers steeped in traditional notions of productivity and progress, because they believe that functional specialization is more efficient for expert workers.

196

The Lean Startup:

So strong is the instinct to work in large batches, that even when a large-batch system is malfunctioning, we have a tendency to blame ourselves.

197

The Lean Startup:

Process is only the foundation upon which a great company culture can develop… without [it], efforts to encourage learning, creativity, and innovation will fall flat…

204

The Lean Startup:

The Lean Startup works only if we are able to build an organization as adaptable and fast as the challenges it faces.

205