When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the beginning of the PC… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to… — Eric Ries Ability Copy Share Image
When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss… — Eric Ries Business Copy Share Image
“Metcalfe’s law: the value of a network as a whole is proportional to the square of the number of participants. In other… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“In the Lean Startup model, every product, every feature, every marketing campaign—everything a startup does—is understood to be an experiment designed to… — Eric Ries Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The… — Eric Ries Budgets Copy Share Image
It was 1999, and we were building a way for college kids to create online profiles for the purpose of sharing... with… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“In my Toyota interviews, when I asked what distinguishes the Toyota Way from other management approaches, the most common first response was… — Eric Ries Business Copy Share Image
There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to… — Eric Ries Business Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and… — Eric Ries Creative Copy Share Image
It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet… — Eric Ries Business Copy Share Image
A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Most entrepreneurs don't need as many customers as they think. A lot of people think 10 is too few for a sample.… — Eric Ries Business Copy Share Image
