Eric Ries
Eric Ries
Eric Riesis a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author recognized for pioneering the lean startup movement, a business strategy which directs startup companies to allocate their resources as efficiently as possible. He is a blogger within the technology entrepreneur community...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth22 September 1979
CountryUnited States of America
way-forward way experiments
The way forward is to learn to see every startup in any industry as a grand experiment.
couple technology years
There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.
believe careers firsts
I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.
baby perseverance ebay
Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.
country jobs ideas
There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.
order vision tests
Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.
focus needs kind
We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.
mean taught process
Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.
fall zuckerberg class
The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed.
cutting people entrepreneur
The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.
innovation vision next
All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.
failing ifs
If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
team failing phenomenal
Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.
thinking want should
We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.