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
moving matter ifs
It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.
trying copies ifs
If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.
care needs ifs
Customers don't care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs.
trust people ifs
If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?
quality ifs customers
If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.
failing ifs
If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
quality ifs customers
If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.
discover elements product requires testing
Building the right product requires systematically and relentlessly testing that vision to discover which elements of it are brilliant, and which are crazy.
approach lean less method money products testing waste
The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.
answer ask meet simple
When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most of them really can't answer that question.
hard high producing products stuff
The problem with entrepreneurship is we are often working really hard producing high quality products that no-one wants. The creation of stuff is not valued.
actions bias blind commitment double implicit means reduce resume symbolic
When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.
build company face soon success truth trying
A lot of entrepreneurs hate big companies. But if you hate them so much, why are you trying to build a new one? The truth is, as soon as a startup has any kind of success whatsoever, it will face big company problems.
bubble building company create kids moment money online profiles realized remember spent
It was 1999, and we were building a way for college kids to create online profiles for the purpose of sharing... with employers. Oops. I vividly remember the moment I realized my company was going to fail. My co-founder and I were at our wits' end. By 2001, the dot-com bubble had burst, and we had spent all our money.