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
perseverance hard-work successful
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
often-is entrepreneur trying
Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.
cutting people entrepreneur
The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.
quality ifs customers
If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.
innovation vision next
All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.
mvp important lessons
The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.
senior mistake people
When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.
creating kind entrepreneurship
Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.
odds opposites people
Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.
trust people ifs
If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?
sound
When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.
answer ask meet simple
When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most of them really can't answer that question.
approach lean less method money products testing waste
The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.
change changed drives people system
You get a culture of entrepreneurship after you have successfully changed the accountability system so that people can use a better process. Process drives culture, not the other way around, so you can't just change the culture, you have to change the system.