• The Lean Startup

  • How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
  • By: Eric Ries
  • Narrated by: Eric Ries
  • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (13,846 ratings)

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By: Eric Ries
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Publisher's summary

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.

The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning”, rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product-development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.

Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs - in companies of all sizes - a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it’s too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.

©2011 Eric Ries (P)2011 Random House

Critic reviews

"Eric 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, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Opsware Inc., and Netscape)
"At Asana, we've been lucky to benefit from Eric's advice firsthand; this book will enable him to help many more entrepreneurs answer the tough questions about their business." (Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and Asana)
"In business, a ‘lean’ enterprise is sustainable efficiency in action. Eric Ries’ revolutionary Lean Startup method will help bring your new business idea to an end result that is successful and sustainable. You’ll find innovative steps and strategies for creating and managing your own startup while learning from the real-life successes and collapses of others. This book is a must read for entrepreneurs who are truly ready to start something great!” (Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and The One Minute Entrepreneur.)

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Great read for starting up

Would you listen to The Lean Startup again? Why?

Probably, there is a lot of valuable information (would get the paper ver so I can refer to specific areas)

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Lean Startup?

The feedback loop to ensure you are building what matters

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Great Book


A must read for all entrepreneurs! I highly recommend it for anyone looking to start a company.

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Good starting point for lean

Good reader. Not much story wise. Theory is good and six more words to completion.

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Great read

Very actionable advice and thought provoking work. Highly recommended for established and aspiring entrepreneurs. Excellent!

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Wow

This is a great book. Makes you rethink everything about start ups and tech companies.

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Good insights

Then start a app business a must read for you to understand to be successful

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The basis of startup thought

A must for anyone in innovation, startups or business. It gives you the tools to be able to systemically test ideas and innovate in a structured, efficient manner.

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best book for startup entrepreneurs

loved it, it has got lots of insights about running starts and innovations for startups

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Must Read

The book and the lessons are not just for entrepreneurs but for any activity that has a goal, timeline and resources. It touches almost all challenges and provides guiding principles & scientific ways to constantly evaluate the plan of action. The success lies in the art of applying & improvising these scientific ways...

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great book on innovation

a great book about interal and start-up innovation. Can be applied to many things.

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