“The rate of growth depends primarily on three things: the profitability of each customer, the cost of acquiring new customers, and the… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“Entrepreneurs are everywhere. You don’t have to work in a garage to be in a startup. The concept of entrepreneurship includes anyone… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“One remarkable part of the SnapTax story is what the team leaders said when I asked them to account for their unlikely… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“People are accustomed to thinking of accounting as dry and boring, a necessary evil used primarily to prepare financial reports and survive… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in marketing, every conversation you… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The problem with entrepreneurship is we are often working really hard producing high quality products that no-one wants. The creation of stuff… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers. — Eric Ries 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 employers. Oops.… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“waiting too long to release can lead to the ultimate waste: making something that nobody wants.” — Eric Ries 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 differentiates them… — 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 achieve validated… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“...a long-term reputation is only at risk when companies engage in vocal launch activities such as PR and building hype. When a product fails… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
