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The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

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The Lean Startup

by Eric Ries

What People Are Saying

The roadmap for innovation for the 21st century. The ideas in The Lean Startup will help create the next industrial revolution.

Steve Blank, Lecturer at Stanford University and UC Berkeley Haas Business School

Eric Ries unravels the mysteries of entrepreneurship and reveals that magic and genius are not the necessary ingredients for success but instead proposes a scientific process that can be learnt and replicated.

Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO

If you are an entrepreneur, read this book. If you are thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, read this book. Starting Lean is today's best practice for innovators.

Randy Komisar, Founding Director of TiVo and Author of 'The Monk and the Riddle'

About This Book

The definitive guide to building startups using validated learning, rapid experimentation, and iterative product releases. Ries introduces the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop that has become the foundation of modern startup methodology.

Read if...

Read if you want a systematic framework for reducing waste and uncertainty in building new products.

Skip if...

Skip if you already practice continuous deployment and customer development rigorously.

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What Founders Say

The Build-Measure-Learn loop saved us months of wasted development. We now validate assumptions before writing a single line of code.

David ParkFounder @ HealthKit

This book taught me that startups are not just smaller versions of large companies. The MVP approach helped us find product-market fit faster.

Emma RodriguezCo-founder & CTO @ LearnHub

Problems This Book Helps Solve

1 founder problem addressed by "The Lean Startup"

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