Eric Ries Quotes

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• If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated…
• If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?
• Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines…
• As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly…
• The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.
• We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.
• Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.
• Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.
• Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.
• The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment:…
• When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it…
• The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might…
• All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.
• What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts…
• A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.
• A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
• If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.
• At IMVU, we opened up our board meetings to the whole company.
• Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.
• In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown.

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