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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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- liz
- 09-10-15
Very Specific
What would have made The Lean Startup better?
This book is about a guy who made cash in silicon valley - its autobiographical to the point of being little use to anyone, unless they operate in the same field.
What didn’t you like about Eric Ries’s performance?
Very monotone voice
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- M. Venner
- 24-11-17
this is focused on software development and launch
I got an hour through this and stopped as it was not about lean startup at all, it was about getting software to market quickly. I kept trying to use the events in the wider market but struggled.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-05-21
Useless
I've never heard the nothingness expressed in so many empty words.
A complete waste of time.
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- Hannah Tapsell
- 03-02-24
Outdated, repetitive + irritating
The case studies used throughout are rather unimpressive (I’d rather learn from far more successful examples than the likes of IMVU) and the concepts are outdated now. I found it hard to relate to the niche examples - there’s definitely more compelling businesses out there. I also found it to be very repetitive.
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- roy
- 21-02-13
Not really for small startups........disappointed
This is a corporate book for large organisations. I am a one man band and the write up tempted me to buy the book.....his idea of a startup is a spin off from amazon or microsoft.......its all about teams! Good stuff no doubt if you are a large corporate but less than useless if you are a small company or true small start up.
There are one or two ideas applicable to any business but I should have spent my time listening to a novel!
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- Anonymous User
- 10-12-17
Major points lost on me
Too academic I was lost in a number of chapters I have to read it again to get the essence of what the author is communicating
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- Josh Mitchell
- 30-04-20
I found it hard to get into it...
This book contains some brilliant principles for start up businesses, however, some of the methods stated seemed geared towards big corporations. This isn't a bad thing just not what I personally was looking for. Good read if your looking to bring some new thinking to business
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- Jenny
- 20-03-13
Interesting practical book
The content of this book was very interesting and I will doubtless put what I have learnt into practice. His insights into innovation whether as an entrepreneur or a senior manager in a multi million pound business, were fascinating. He offers very practical guidance in a simple step by step approach that will save many businesses a lot of money.
In hindsight though I wish I'd bought the paperback version, as I found the narration difficult to listen to. However, I do tend to listen to my books in the car and maybe this had an influence on my ability to concentrate. He is clear and at first I found him easy to listen to, perhaps too easy as I found that my concentration kept wandering. At times he speaks quickly, when perhaps speaking more slowly would have helped to get his point across more easily.
There also seemed to be times when you wanted to digest an idea and the narrator, went quickly onto another topic.I know I have a pause button, but many other narrators appear to accept this simple concept and integrate it into their style.
Overall a good, helpful, informative book and one that if you are attempting to set up a new business or introducing an innovative idea into an existing business, this is definitley worth a read/listen.
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- Lee
- 07-02-17
Wasted my money
I really don't like this book. It's slow, boring and the author goes on about himself and his companies for the first three chapters and it's just not interesting. Ive listened to 70% of it learned nothing useful and the book doesn't improve. It's more suitable for an internet based company and even then I doubt you would benefit from reading it. Really sorry I wasted my money.
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- Terry
- 24-04-23
Unfortunate and not useful.
I’m also a startup founder that has built fairly successful businesses at a similar valuation to what has been discussed in this book. Unfortunately, the writer of this book is obviously not the CEO and not the person making the decisions. He comes from a sheltered decision making process where he is acting much more like an employee than a leader. It is a well written book, and the author seems nice. Unfortunately, I don’t believe he possesses the startup skills he believes he does.
He is not the founder who made the difficult decisions, and did not go further to create additional valuable startups. He decided to write books instead as a tech lead. But tech leads are not founders, and there is little leadership advice found here. There are, unfortunately better books out there.
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