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:

Early adopters use their imagination to fill in what a product is missing… they care about… being the first to use or adopt a new product or technology.

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The Lean Startup:

Deciding exactly how complex an MVP needs to be cannot be done formulaically. It requires judgment.

95

The Lean Startup:

When in doubt, simplify.

96

The Lean Startup:

The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what [is] required to start learning is waste, no matter how important in might [seem] at the time.

97

The Lean Startup:

In a concierge MVP,… personalized service is not the product but a learning activity designed to test the leap-of-faith assumptions in the company’s growth model.

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The Lean Startup:

In a Wizard of Oz test, customers believe they are interacting with the actual product, but behind the scenes human beings are doing the work.

106

The Lean Startup:

One of the most vexing aspects of the minimum viable product is the challenge it poses to traditional notions of quality.

106

The Lean Startup:

MVPs require the courage to put one’s assumptions to the test.

109

The Lean Startup:

We must be willing to set aside our traditional professional standards to start the process of validated learning as soon as possible.

109

The Lean Startup:

Customers don’t care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs.

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