Eric Ries
Eric Ries
Eric Riesis a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author recognized for pioneering the lean startup movement, a business strategy which directs startup companies to allocate their resources as efficiently as possible. He is a blogger within the technology entrepreneur community...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth22 September 1979
CountryUnited States of America
zero numbers imagination
Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.
successful entrepreneur tools
What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.
failing ifs
If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
team failing phenomenal
Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.
problem problems-and-solutions solutions
In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown.
focus needs kind
We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.
institutions new-products humans
A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
order vision tests
Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.
beautiful opportunity growth
In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.
cost speed method
The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.
busy disaster company
Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
couple technology years
There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.
way-forward way experiments
The way forward is to learn to see every startup in any industry as a grand experiment.
quality ifs customers
If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.