Name: The Lean Startup
Rating: 4.049822064056939 (281 reviews)
ISBN: 9780307887894

Eric Ries

Outlines a revisionist approach to management while arguing against common perceptions about the inevitability of startup failures, explaining the importance of providing genuinely needed products and services as well as organizing a business that can adapt to continuous customer feedback.

How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

The Lean Startup

Der Weg zum eigenen Unternehmen ist nie ohne Risiko. Und bis die Firma sich auf dem Markt etabliert hat, dauert es. Wer doch scheitert, verliert in der Regel viel Geld. Genau hier setzt das Konzept von Eric Ries an. Lean Startup heißt seine Methode. Sie ist schnell, ressourcenfreundlich und radikal erfolgsorientiert. Anhand von durchgespielten Szenarien kann man von vornherein die Erfolgsaussichten von Ideen, Produkten und Märkten bestimmen. Und auch während der Gründungphase wird der Stand der Dinge ständig überprüft. Machen, messen, lernen – so funktioniert der permanente Evaluationsprozess. Das spart enorm Zeit, Geld und Ressourcen und bietet die Möglichkeit, spontan den Kurs zu korrigieren. Das Lean-Startup-Tool hat sich schon zigtausenfach in der Praxis bewährt und setzt sich auch in Deutschland immer stärker durch.

Schnell, risikolos und erfolgreich Unternehmen gründen

Lean Startup

Useful for an initial introduction but could have been alot more concise with more engaging case studies

Cassandra Tang

Julian Paul

Nast

This book compiles many of the principles that I understand as key to modern management's evolution.

It takes most of its ideas and concepts from Agile and Lean and rebrand them in a great marketinian way. This book has made mainstream many principles that will drive change towards better organizations and decissions both in society and business.

Since it compiles a collage of resources excepted from the vast Agile and Lean literature, it is somewhat poor on its instructions about how to implement the practices it advocates.

Obada Mu

“Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer’s problem “ Cook

John Elbing

I had a "failed" entrepreneurial attempt and I am not sure why, even if I could point to number of things we should have done differently. "Validated learning" is something we could have greatly benefited from!

Chris Raastad

“We would dedicate ourselves to the creation of new institutions with a long-term mission to build sustainable value and change the world for the better. Most of all, we would stop wasting other people’s time."

This is the bible of Startup renaissance of the 2010s. I came in with high expectations and they were exceeded. I thought I'd step into a masterclass on post-it notes and whiteboard lanes, build-measure-learn from customers, and basically reiterating what I think is common sense. Instead, Eric lays insights into why only 1 of the 4 companies I have worked for actually practiced innovation accounting and the night-and-day difference of results rigorous learning yields in innovative companies and teams.

I really enjoyed reading this book taking careful notes at the end of every chapter. Eric picks examples from his time at IVCM (which I still have never heard about until I googled it), Toyota, Intuit, Dropbox, and a bunch of other companies. The book is outlined well with chapter titles and section headers. It ages well into 2020 and should be on every startup founders' bookshelf.

Don't fall for vanity metrics, test your leap-of-faith hypotheses, and know when to persevere or pivot, reduce your batch size, adapt your organization, reduce waste, and be the most innovative you, you can be. This is the book to read to be an effective innovation manager.

* The Lean Startup Method
 * (1) Entrepreneurs are Everywhere
 * (2) Entrepreneurship is Management
 * (3) Validated Learning
 * (4) Build-Measure-Learn
 * (5) Innovation Accounting

Justin Ahinon

I started reading this book a little by chance after a trip I had made to a farm one weekend. A friend and I were thinking about starting a startup, and I was doing some research on the subject when I came across the book.

Let's just say it demystified and clarified a lot of things for me, on various subjects. First, starting even with the definition of a startup and the fact that it strongly emphasizes the uncertain nature of the environment in which it evolves. I feel like we (much more me) are ignoring this uncertainty, so it was instructive to see this recalled several times.

Beyond everything, "The Lean Startup" made me want to do it, to get started, and to contribute to the creation and progress of things I care about. Knowing me, it's a very curious desire, since I've always shied away from calling myself an entrepreneur (https://segbedji.com/i-never-thought-of-myself-as-an-entrepreneur).

Ricardo Parro

Second time I read it and it's def the bible of building startups

Nikolay Bachiyski

If your role contains either project or product, or you have heard the word project, this book is worth reading.

Please, don't treat it as a silver bullet. Just food for thought.

P.S. After reading it, I got into the habit of stating all the assumptions before starting any project. It makes a difference.

Hooman Askari

Kelly Kim

An insightful thought process behind creating and leading a successful startup. For me, the word 'lean' seems synonymous to flexible as a result of light structure. Some interesting lessons on how to avoid data-interpretation pitfalls, how to correctly cultivate a sustainable team in terms of performance, morale and innovation, and most importantly, how to treat/love your startup right.

Shreerag Plakazhi

Excellent resource for new and old startups. I gained a wealth of knowledge and can't wait to begin testing it out.

Kirill So

As many people already noted, I think this book can be a blog post. If you have already been reading a few tech-related books out there you probably know all the concepts, nevertheless for 1st-time entrepreneurs => invaluable.

Peter Hagen

The central idea of the book is to treat product development as discovering what people want, not to build out your ideas.

One of my favourite books of all time, it got me into entrepreneurship and valuing "doing" & iterating over everything else.

The Lean Startup How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

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