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:

This is an important rule: a good design is one that changes customer behavior for the better.

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The Lean Startup:

…if we’re not moving the drivers of our business model, we’re not making progress. That becomes a sure sign that it’s time to pivot.

120

The Lean Startup:

…this is the sign of a successful pivot: the new experiments you run are overall more productive than the experiments you were running before.

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The Lean Startup:

A startup has to measure progress against a high bar: evidence that a sustainable business can be built around its products or services.

126

The Lean Startup:

Energy invested in success theater is energy that could have been used to help build a sustainable business.

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The Lean Startup:

As they say in systems theory, that which optimizes one part of the system necessarily undermined the system as a whole.

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The Lean Startup:

A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.

140

The Lean Startup:

…the three A’s of metrics: actionable, accessible, and auditable.

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The Lean Startup:

Vanity metrics wreak havoc because they prey on a weakness of the human mind.

143

The Lean Startup:

Most data reporting systems are not built by product development teams, whose job is to prioritize and build product features.

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