“Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster”
“Offers new ways to cut work time and investment”
“Many CEOs have fully embraced and continue to internalize the lean startup principles”
“Concepts apply both to designing products and to developing a market”
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The Lean Startup Principles »“Lean Startup isn't about being cheap [but is about] being less wasteful and still doing things that are big.”
Lean Startup Process In Detail » See the Case Studies »The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business... it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. It's ultimately an answer to the question 'How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't? Tim O'Reilly CEO O'Reilly Media
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Do one important thing: make better, faster business decisions. Vastly better, faster business decisions. Bringing principles from lean manufacturing and agile development to the process of innovation, the Lean Startup helps companies succeed in a business landscape riddled with risk.
This book shows you how.
Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Business, published by Crown Business.
He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has consulted to new and established companies as well as venture capital firms. In 2010, he was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and is currently an IDEO Fellow. Previously he co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup. In 2007, BusinessWeek named him one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. In 2009, he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership.The Lean Startup methodology has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review,Inc. (where he appeared on the cover), Wired, Fast Company, and countless blogs. He lives in San Francisco.
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However, the most important resources are local - being embedded in a startup ecosystem is an
important part of entrpreneurship. These ecosystems are sprouting up
in increasingly more startup hubs around the world.
IF you want to learn more about the Lean Startup and meet other people
who want to do the same, check out our resources
You can find a real-time map of groups here. You can also find a list of cities where people are interested in starting a new group and tools to set one up yourself.
Some Lean Startup groups don't use Meetup.com to organize. The Lean Startup Wiki is maintained by volunteers and includes a comprehensive list of events and other resources here.
This is the largest community of practice around the Lean Startup, happening online. If you have a question about how Lean Startup might apply to your business or industry, here is a great place to start.
Eric runs regular Lean Startup Conferences. More details are available here.
The Lean Series, curated by Eric Ries, is a collection of books written by the best people in the field, on topics that matter. The authors dive down into Lean Startup implementation-level details, providing readers with information they can immediately put to use.
The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steve Blank's The Four Steps to the Epiphany: The original book about customer development and an indispensible guide. Get a copy here. Steve also maintains an active and excellent blog here.
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development
Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits' The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A gentle introduction to customer development. Buy it here.
blog.500startups.com
Dave McClure's blog: here and the venture firm he founded, '500 Startups', blog: here. Dave is an expert in startup metrics.
www.startup-marketing.com
Sean Ellis' Startup Marketing Blog about integrating marketing into ideas: here.
www.andrewchenblog.com
Andrew Chen's blog Futurist Play about viral marketing, startup metrics, and design: here
www.angel.co
Venturehacks and Angel List which matches startups and investors around the world: here
