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

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The Lean Startup:

Although the primary changes that are required in adaptive organization are in the mind-set of its employees, changing the culture is not sufficient.

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The Lean Startup:

…Lean Startups, when they grow up, are well positioned to develop operational excellence based on lean principles.

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The Lean Startup:

As a successful startup makes the transition to an established company, it will be well poised to develop the kind of culture if disciplined execution that characterizes the world’s best firms…

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The Lean Startup:

Today successful companies face immediate pressure from new competitors, fast followers, and scrappy startups.

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The Lean Startup:

Both successful startups and established companies alike must learn to juggle multiple kinds of work at the same time, pursuing operational excellence and disruptive innovation.

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The Lean Startup:

As startups grow, entrepreneurs can build organizations that learn how to balance the needs of existing customers with the challenges of finding new customers…

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The Lean Startup:

Successful innovation teams must be structured correctly in order to succeed.

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The Lean Startup:

…startups are both easier and more demanding to run than traditional divisions: they require much less capital overall, but that capital must be absolutely secure from tampering.

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The Lean Startup:

Startup teams need complete autonomy to develop and market new products within their limited mandate.

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The Lean Startup:

Handoffs and approvals slow down the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and inhibit both learning and accountability.

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