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  • Published: 6 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9780670921621
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

The Lean Startup

The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success




The ultimate recipe for business success: never stop innovating

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION

'The Lean Startup changes everything.' - Harvard Business Review

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Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable.

The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Essential reading for any ambitious entrepreneur, The Lean Startup will teach you to identify what your customers really want. You'll learn how to test your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it's too late.

With over a million copies sold across the globe, now is your time to think Lean.

  • Published: 6 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9780670921621
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

About the author

Eric Ries

Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author of the popular blog Startup Lessons Learned. He cofounded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup, and has had plenty of startup failures along the way. He is a frequent speaker at business events, has advised a number of startups, large companies, and venture capital firms on business and product strategy, and is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School. His Lean Startup methodology has been written about in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, the Huffington Post, and many blogs. He lives in San Francisco.

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Praise for The Lean Startup

Every so often a business book comes along that changes how we think about innovation and entrepreneurship. The Lean Startup has the chops to join this exalted company

Financial Times, Philip Delves Broughton

Mandatory reading for entrepreneurs... loaded with fascinating stories and practical principles

Dan Heath, coauthor of Switch and Made to Stick

If you are an entrepreneur, read this book. If you are thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, read this book. If you are just curious about entrepreneurship, read this book

Randy Komisar, founding director of TiVo

The Lean Startup will change the way we think about entrepreneurship

Tom Eisenmann, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School

Eric Ries has created a science where previously there was only art. A must-read for every serious entrepreneur - and every manager interested in innovation

Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz, Opsware, and Netscape

I know of no better guide to improve the odds of a startup's success

Mitchell Kapor, Founder, Lotus Development Corp

This book is the guided tour of the key innovative practices used inside Google, Toyota, and Facebook, that work in any business

Scott Cook, Founder and Chairman, Intuit

The Lean Startup changes everything

Harvard Business Review

You should think like a lean startup even if you're not a lean startup

Forbes