"Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants,……" — Eric Ries
"Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build - the thing customers want and will pay for - as quickly as possible."
—
Eric Ries
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
85 Quotes by Eric Ries
Eric Ries has 85 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens -…
-
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…
-
As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort…
-
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…
-
When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame…
-
The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no…
See all 85 quotes by Eric Ries »
More Accidentally Quotes
This quote is filed under Accidentally Quotes,
one of 262 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of…
— Martin Ryle
-
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
— Samuel Johnson
-
There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The…
— Jack Nicklaus
-
Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front…
— Evgeni Plushenko
-
If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say,…
— Rachel McAdams
-
For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where…
— Augusten Burroughs
-
Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?
— John Templeton
-
Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither
— Mike Murdock
-
Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting…
— Carolyn Heilbrun
-
For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the…
— Unknown Author
-
When I was 23, 24, I used to have a really bad runny nose, mucus, tons of acne, reddishness all…
— Woody Harrelson
-
I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.
— Hector Elizondo
See all 262 Accidentally Quotes »