Eric Ries Quotes

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• What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on…
• Reading is good, action is better.
• Customers don't care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs.
• Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would…
• Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow] a three-step process:…
• The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.
• If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.
• The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.
• Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.
• Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.
• Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of…
• Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following…
• In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5…
• The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
• The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don't want people to start amping up…
• I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.
• It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come…
• Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
• The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.
• Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

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