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:

…delay prevents many startups from getting the feedback they need.

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The Lean Startup:

…which of our efforts are value-creating and which are wasteful? This question is at the heart of the lean manufacturing revolution…

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The Lean Startup:

It’s… easy to learn things that are completely irrelevant. Thus, validated learning is backed up by empirical data collected from real customers.

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The Lean Startup:

This is true startup productivity: systematically figuring out the right things to build.

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The Lean Startup:

…the way forward is to learn to see every startup in any industry as a grand experiment.

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The Lean Startup:

In the Lean Startup model, every product, every feature, every marketing campaign… is understood to be an experiment designed to achieve validated learning.

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The Lean Startup:

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

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The Lean Startup:

The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.

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The Lean Startup:

The two most important assumptions entrepreneurs make are what I call the value hypothesis and the growth hypothesis.

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The Lean Startup:

The point is not to find the average customers but to find early adopters: the customers who feel the need for the product most acutely.

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