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:

Sustainable growth is characterized b one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.

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The Lean Startup:

…one of the most expensive forms of potential waste for a startup is spending time arguing about how to prioritize new development once it has a product on the market.

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The Lean Startup:

Engines of growth are designed to give startups a relatively small set of metrics on which to focus their energies.

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The Lean Startup:

The rules that govern the sticky engine of growth are pretty simple: if the rate of new customer acquisition exceeds the churn rate, the product will grow.

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The Lean Startup:

…products that exhibit viral growth depend on person-to-person transmission as a necessary consequence of normal product use.

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The Lean Startup:

Most sources of customer acquisition are subject to competition.

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The Lean Startup:

…successful startups usually focus on just one engine of growth, specializing in everything that is required to make it work.

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The Lean Startup:

Getting a startup’s engine of growth up and running is hard work, but the truth is that every engine of growth eventually runs out of gas.

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The Lean Startup:

Having no system at all [is] not an option for you. There are so many ways for a startup to fail.

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The Lean Startup:

…an adaptive organization, [is] one that automatically adjusts its process and performance to current conditions.

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