"The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses" Quotes
"The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries provides a methodology for developing businesses and products by emphasizing iterative design, validated learning, and rapid experimentation to increase success and reduce waste.
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Quotes
Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer’s problem.
Validated learning is the process of demonstrating empirically that a team has discovered valuable truths about a startup’s present and future business prospects.
The ability to learn faster from customers is the essential competitive advantage that startups must possess.
Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be managed.
Every entrepreneur eventually discovers that at the heart of every successful startup is a pivot.
One of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built?
We must be willing to set aside our traditional professional standards and embrace the uncertainty of entrepreneurship.
To improve entrepreneurial outcomes and hold entrepreneurs accountable, we need to focus on the boring stuff: how to measure progress, how to set up milestones, and how to prioritize work.
A true measure of progress for a startup is not how quickly an idea can be built but how quickly it can be validated to solve a customer problem.
