The Lean Startup

The Movement That is Transforming How
New Products are Built and Launched

“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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'Innovate Like a Startup?'

Talk to the Lean Startup Company to drive scalable, efficient and measurable innovation at your organization for more wins and less waste.

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Benefits of The Lean Startup

Be more innovative.
Stop wasting people's time.
Be more successful.

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“Lean Startup isn't about being cheap [but is about] being less wasteful and still doing things that are big.”

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Principles of The Lean Startup

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Entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurs are Everywhere
Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship is Management
Validated: Validated Learning
Innovation: Innovation Accounting
Build: Build-Measure-Learn

Lean Startups can operate with much less waste

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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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Lean Startup Case Studies

Dropbox revolutionized file-sharing by making an extremely easy-to-use, seamless application. Learn More

Wealthfront is democratizing access to outstanding investment managers. Learn More

Grockit was founded in 2007 to enable social learning, specifically test preparation (SAT, LSAT, etc). Learn More

Founded in 2004, IMVU is the world's largest 3D chat and dress-up community. Learn More

Votizen is disrupting how our government and politics works by putting focus back on individual voter. Learn More

Aardvark, a company subsequently acquired by Google, developed a social search engine. Learn More

Meet-ups are happening everywhere

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The Lean Startup Online Course,
with Eric Ries

A Course For Individuals and Enterprise Teams

Who is this for?

Featuring exclusive content from The Lean Startup author, Eric Ries, this course is designed for individuals and also enterprise teams to experience together. In a series of 6 lessons, participants will be able to create and execute a plan to validate an entrepreneurial idea through the process of building, measuring, and learning. This course is intended as an introductory course, so it assumes very little previous knowledge on the part of the participant.

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About the Author

Eric Ries

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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Resource Links

The Lean Startup movement has gone global.

However, the most important resources are local - being embedded in a startup ecosystem is an
important part of entrepreneurship. 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

Training, Coaching and Consulting

Are you part of a large organization seeking Lean Startup training, coaching or consulting? Lean Startup Co. helps you build new products and services faster, minimize risk and create a framework for innovation. Learn more here.
Lean Startup Meetup Groups

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.
The Lean Startup Wiki

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.
The Lean Startup Circle

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.

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The Startup Way

By Eric Ries

Eric Ries has been working with giant firms like General Electric and Toyota to help them become more nimble, in order to spur growth and produce products and services that customers want. In The Startup Way, he shares his insights, stories and best practices, delivering a critical toolkit to solve all business challenges.

Lean Impact

By Ann Mei Chang

Want to exponentially grow the social impact of your work, time, or money? Inspired by The Lean Startup, Lean Impact offers bold ideas and practical tools for tackling the toughest problems facing people and the planet.

Lean Startup Co.

Learn to build a modern company the startup way.

By making entrepreneurship a core function of every organization, we can solve some of the world's biggest problems. We teach organizations everywhere - regardless of size, sector or age - how to innovate in a fast-changing world and build products that matter. We offer an education program, live events, and library of online resources.

The Four Steps to the Epiphany Steve Blank

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 & Patrick Vlashkovit

Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits' The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A gentle introduction to customer development. Buy it here.

The Lean Series

Essential books for Entrepeneurs and Innovators

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.