The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses

The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses

by EricRies (Author)

Synopsis

Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable. "The Lean Startup" is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. "The Lean Startup" is about learning what your customers really want. It's about testing your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it's too late. Now is the time to think Lean.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Publisher: Portfolio Penguin
Published: 06 Oct 2011

ISBN 10: 0670921602
ISBN 13: 9780670921607

Media Reviews
Every so often a business book comes along that changes how we think about innovation and entrepreneurship. The Lean Startup has the chops to join this exalted company. -- Philip Delves Broughton * Financial Times *
Mandatory reading for entrepreneurs... loaded with fascinating stories and practical principles -- Dan Heath, coauthor of Switch and Made to Stick
If you are an entrepreneur, read this book. If you are thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, read this book. If you are just curious about entrepreneurship, read this book. -- Randy Komisar, founding director of TiVo
The Lean Startup will change the way we think about entrepreneurship -- Tom Eisenmann, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School
Eric Ries has created a science where previously there was only art. A must-read for every serious entrepreneur - and every manager interested in innovation -- Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz, Opsware, and Netscape
I know of no better guide to improve the odds of a startup's success' -- Mitchell Kapor, Founder, Lotus Development Corp
This book is the guided tour of the key innovative practices used inside Google, Toyota, and Facebook, that work in any business -- Scott Cook, Founder and Chairman, Intuit
Author Bio
Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and the author of the international bestseller The Lean Startup, which has sold over one million copies and has been translated into over thirty languages. He has founded a number of startups including IMVU, where he served as CTO, and he has advised on business and product strategy for startups, venture capital firms, and large companies, including General Electric, where he partnered to create the FastWorks program. Eric has served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, IDEO, and Pivotal and he is the founder and CEO of the Long-Term Stock Exchange.