How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries
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See customer reviews on Amazon →The Lean Startup reads like a startup coach walking you through a method for testing ideas quickly, filled with war stories from the author’s own venture. Ries’s build-measure-learn loop repeats often, driving the point home but feeling like a mantra. Early chapters energize; the book sags under its own terminology in the middle. You’ll get a useful lens for reducing waste, though you might tire of the repetitive experimental approach and recycled examples.
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Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business. The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more…
Difficulty:hard
Length:337 pages (Medium)
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Recommended by 30 sources and appears in Best Startup Books, Project Management, and Books Recommended by Founders.
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Consider The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. Recommended by 54 sources.
“A blunt, conversational tour through the worst parts of building a company. Horowitz shares personal stories from his own startup failures and recoveries, offering practical wisdom on layoffs, pivots, CEO loneliness, and managing when times are bad. The value is in the honest, experience-based insight you won't get from business school. The limitation is its narrow focus on venture-backed tech startups—if you're not in that world, some advice may feel irrelevant. Reads like a wise mentor telling you what nobody else will.”
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