“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
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“You cannot be sure you really understand any part of any business problem unless you go and see for yourself firsthand. It… — Eric Ries Business Copy Share Image
I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the 'Social Network' movie, but only… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“Split testing often uncovers surprising things. For example, many features that make the product better in the eyes of engineers and designers… — Eric Ries Habits 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 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
I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and… — Eric Ries Age 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
“although we write the feedback loop as Build-Measure-Learn because the activities happen in that order, our planning really works in the reverse… — Eric Ries Learning Copy Share Image
Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change… — 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 Ability 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
Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If… — Eric Ries Breakthrough Copy Share Image
When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Building the right product requires systematically and relentlessly testing that vision to discover which elements of it are brilliant, and which are… — Eric Ries Brilliant Copy Share Image
“We have the capacity to build almost anything we can imagine. The big question of our time is not Can it be… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
