Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities. — 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
Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs.… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don't want people to… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
You get a culture of entrepreneurship after you have successfully changed the accountability system so that people can use a better process.… — 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 Copy Share Image
Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should… — Eric Ries 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
Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard,… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm… — 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
In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at… — 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
