The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Really enjoyed the content of the book. Exciting stuff. Can't wait to put what I learned here to use. The author (and narrator) was very good as well. Very well read.I ended up having to buy the book as well. While listening was nice, it was the sort of content that I really needed to think about and ponder. While I thought and pondered (ok, maybe daydreamed...), the book played on. I found myself having to stop, back up, and play stuff again a number of times. For content like this, I find that reading the book is necessary for it to sink in. Your mileage may vary. :)

To me, the Lean Startup is about starting a business without having a complete product. I simply loved it even if for entrepreneurs like me, it's something hard to do. I always want it to be perfect but find out that I had problems in the past working too long on something that wasn't wanted.

Definitely cut corners and launch as soon as you can! Then, iterate often.

I listened to an interview on Mixergy and think it was also really interesting.

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Every entrepreneur should read this. If you are in the product development field this is a must read for you. Eric Ries explains the best practices of how to discover customers for your ideas, how to plan/test/release your products to market and when to pivot. A must read for every startup organization.

So many minor but significant tips and tricks, it's hard to get it all in on the first listen.

Listen to this after reading Getting Real by 37 Signals

The concepts outlined works best, if you operate in large markets where it take short amount of time to get a descent sample for your experiments.

I have a strong preference to Audiobooks, so I'm biased. They both have advantages, I'm sure. It helps that Ries performs his own words. Less gets lost in translation.

Not that kind of book. My favorite Anecdote is in the beginning where the executive team is actually spending time prototyping the business in the field to test their thinking. So much time gets wasted in meetings and 'brainstorming' when you can just go and ask people/test your ideas.

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Not really - this is the kind of book that you need to mull over. Listening to more than 30 minutes at a stretch makes it hard to digest all that's being said.

Its going to be a modern classic in terms of business books.

I strongly recommend this book for anyone who's running a business, starting a business, or in business school.

Yes. The advice is practical and it is an engaging audiobook

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How to be successful as an entrepreneur or intrapreneur

I don't think I would recommend this book to a friend. It's not bad, but its not groundbreaking or anything.

The most interesting aspect was the great tips Ries presents and even though they involve a tech company, they can be applied to any company. The least interesting part is the slow stories of his boring tech company.

I have not even heard of Eric Ries's before listening to his book. I have read

Produce in small batches, test often using the right metrics, and make timely adjustments.

Definitely higher in terms of how I will use the content. Keeps me thinking lean.

The story line was pretty good, but could have been more compelling.

This book makes you think about what is the minimum viable product you need to get your product started.

We waste so much effort on so many features but what is the absolute minimum and how do you validate it against your assumptions.

Makes you think about all the things you did in the past, was it really necessary to build all that ... hmmm...