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The Lean Startup
- How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- Narrated by: Eric Ries
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
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 effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning”, rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product-development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.
Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs - in companies of all sizes - a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it’s too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.
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- Popo
- 17-04-21
A bit too Tech
Am not well versed with IT so at the start the examples felt a bit too tech. I wish the author used simpler examples.
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- Dritchie
- 09-01-20
Good book for product start ups
To expand upon my title. This book is great for companies that have a product to sell as opposed to a company who offers services like hair dressing or property. There are a few good take ways from this on systems so it’s worth a listen to find those out.
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- Keith
- 26-08-18
Good insight
Good tips and advice for those in the technology industry business, the author explains ways to minimize waste and save money.
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- Plamen
- 08-04-13
Great, inspiring listen
This is a great book. Inspiring and generally uplifting. The main idea is essentially combining Steve Blank's Customer Development with Agile development practices however it still represent a valuable material. I especially like the fact that Eric Ries reads it himself. No doubt this book on its own is very likely to be insufficient but it is a great start. I highly recommend listening/reading it.
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- Dominik
- 24-11-16
Great book
It was very good and fascinating book with a lot of examples on how to run your business and how the big established companies run theirs, I don't have a company yet but I'm looking for ideas and this book may be a bit overwhelming for a newbie, but if you already have your own business this is a must have book!
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- Lekan
- 27-04-16
fantastic information and perspectives
loved it. the future of business is changing for the better. Ready put principles in action.
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- JP
- 21-08-15
LEAN SU & MVP
Thank you Eric for such great book.
Your approach, models, concepts ideas, and examples are simply too good.
I look forward to meeting you soon.
JP
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- ben
- 08-07-15
Amazing
I made a mistake. Being given this book 2 years ago, I didn't pass the first chapter from a dislike of reading.
How silly I was.
Do not even consider setting up a business in today's industry until you have read/ listed to this book.
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- Tom Doherty
- 12-07-16
Please read this book before you spend a penny on your startup!
I'm delighted to have listened to this audiobook. Sorry I didn't have it 20 years ago
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- Santiago
- 27-05-16
Must read
Engaging, practical and interesting guide to sustainable innovation.
Must read for anyone into technology, business or doing things right in life.
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