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The Lean Startup

How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Ries, Eric, 1978- (Book - - 2011)
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The Lean Startup


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"Most startups are built to fail. But those failures, according to entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. Startups don't fail because of bad execution, or missed deadlines, or blown budgets. They fail because they are building something nobody wants. Whether they arise from someone's garage or

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"Most startups are built to fail. But those failures, according to entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. Startups don't fail because of bad execution, or missed deadlines, or blown budgets. They fail because they are building something nobody wants. Whether they arise from someone's garage or are created within a mature Fortune 500 organization, new ventures, by definition, are designed to create new products or services under conditions of extreme uncertainly. Their primary mission is to find out what customers ultimately will buy. One of the central premises of The Lean Startup movement is what Ries calls "validated learning" about the customer. It is a way of getting continuous feedback from customers so that the company can shift directions or alter its plans inch by inch, minute by minute. Rather than creating an elaborate business plan and a product-centric approach, Lean Startup prizes testing your vision continuously with your customers and making constant adjustments"--

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Authors: Ries, Eric, 1978-
Statement of Responsibility: Eric Ries
Title: The lean startup
how today's entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful businesses
Publisher: New York :, Crown Business,, c2011
Edition: 1st ed
Characteristics: 320 p. ;,22 cm.
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  • Dr_Taco rated this: 1 stars out of 5.

awful....at least from what I could bear to read

There are some really good ideas in this book, which changed the way I thought about "doing innovation". The ideas themselves are really simple but serve to guide what you should be developing versus your beliefs (which are untested and therefore not self-evident as you may think).

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