Eric Ries
Author of The Lean Startup
Interview: Eric Ries, Author Of The Lean Startup
When Eric Ries was still at university, he set up his first company, Catalyst Recruiting. It was a platform through which college students could create and share their profiles. Sound familiar? Ries’s company was geared towards getting students jobs once they graduated. He had a ... Read more »
Eric Ries talks about his new book, The Lean Startup
Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, a new book on the culmination of much of his thinking about startups and how they work, has been touring the UK and Ireland and TechCrunch Europe managed to catch up with him at one of his appearances in London. I’m busily transcribing the ... Read more »
Upstart Eric Ries Has the Stage and the Crowd Is Going Wild
Then special guest Eric Ries will come up with a solution. Arun Muthukumaran, a group manager of Intuit Payment Solutions, kicks off the proceedings. He describes a feature that could dramatically increase the number of small businesses that sign up for the company’s payment services. ... Read more »
Upstart Eric Ries Has the Stage and The Crowd Is Going Wild
Then special guest Eric Ries will come up with a solution. Arun Muthukumaran, a group manager of Intuit Payment Solutions, kicks off the proceedings. He describes a feature that could dramatically increase the number of small businesses that sign up for the company’s payment services. ... Read more »
CircleCI Raises $1.5M From Eric Ries And Heroku Founders For Platform To Test Web Apps
The investors participating include original Heroku founders and Eric Ries, founder of The Lean Startup, whose company IMVU pioneered many of the techniques that CircleCI has developed into a product portfolio. Joining early Heroku investors Baseline and Harrison Metal are Heroku ... Read more »
Shopify Teams Up With Tim Ferriss, Eric Ries, FUBU Founder To Help You Build A $1M eCommerce Biz
... announced the launch of its third annual Build-A-Business competition, in which the team compete for seed funding while being mentored by 4-Hour Workweek author Tim Ferriss, FUBU founder and Shark Tank resident Daymond John, swissmiss creator Tina Roth Eisenberg, and Lean Startup author Eric Ries... Read more »
Steve Blank: “A founder’s vision is just an opinion stated passionately.”
Given the huge popularity of our Q&A with lean startup evangelist Eric Ries a few weeks ago, I decided to take one step backwards and interview the man who helped inspire Ries: Steve Blank. Like Ries, Blank is a serial entrepreneur who left company building to help create a ... Read more »
Details Matter
Lean Startup author Eric Ries recommends failing quietly with as few customers as possible on your way to creating a great product. But is that even possible anymore? As it becomes easier and easier to create products and launch startups, one way to stand out is to craft something really ... Read more »
How the Lean Startup idea went from idiotic to overhyped
Eric Ries and his philosophies of rapid iteration, testing hypotheses and turning entrepreneurship into a science went from something that was considered crazy to something that was considered overhyped. There was almost no time in the middle where it was simply something that people ... Read more »
Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup
Rather, it's a methodology pioneered by entrepreneur and author Eric Ries as it relates to product development at startups. The Lean Startup methodology is all about iterative shortened product releases and scientific experimentation. So how does all this even relate to marketing? ... Read more »
'Lean Startup' Author Among Speakers at GMU's VentureCamp
Eric Ries is one of featured speakers at Wednesday event. Eric Ries, author of 'The Lean Startup,' will speak at GMU Founders Hall at noon Wednesday as part of Mason's VentureCamp. Nick Wilson; Courtesy Arlington Economic Development Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup," ... Read more »
US Government CTO Pretty Much Wants to Marry “Lean Startup”
Todd Park, who assumed the Administration’s top tech position in March, was a surprise guest at the almost-impromptu event, which featured a fireside chat with The Lean Startup author Eric Ries. (As usual, there was no actual fire at the event. ) Park attended the DC Lean Startup Circle ... Read more »
Michael B. Fishbein: You Don't Have to Be a Product Visionary to Create a Great Product
According to Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, most start-ups fail because they built something that nobody wanted. Technological advancement and open source technology have made it cheaper and easier than ever to build a product, but as Eric wrote in his book, "The question ... Read more »
One valuable lesson a kindergartner can teach your startup
Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, recently showed that kindergartners beat business-school graduates in a simple innovation test. Ries, who just joined the team at Singularity University, demonstrated how kindergartners’ ingenuity can outpace that of business-school grads ... Read more »
How To Innovate Like A Startup
Lean Startup author Eric Ries discusses what CIOs and other IT leaders can learn from entrepreneurial companies. | Jonathan Feldman | June 15, 2012 08:34 AM We recently caught up with Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, a book full of practical advice on how to apply metrics ... Read more »
CircleCI raises $1.5 million to let developers test code faster
Today the company announced $1.5 million in seed funding from Baseline, Harrison Metal, Heroku founder James Lindenbaum, SV Angel, 500 Startups, Hiten Shah from Kissmetrics, founder of Slicehost Jason Seats, and pioneer of the Lean Startup movement Eric Ries. Customers include Stripe... Read more »
$8M In Two Weeks: The Inside Story Of The Largest, Crowdfunded Series A Round Of All Time
... three-year-old fundraising website for nonprofits, political campaigns and other causes–had just raised $3.5 million in Series A financing from some serious Silicon Valley investors: LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman from Greylock Partners, Mike Maples of Floodgate and Lean Startup author Eric Ries... Read more »
Forgetting to shut the door and other lessons at FailCon
According to Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, the Harvard Business School now requires that each of its students build one small company while they are in the program. “Since people go to business school anyway, we might as well teach them something about entrepreneurship while ... Read more »
Former Odeo architect sells Uruguay dev shop to “Lean Startup” firm
The first employee and lead architect of the company that later became Twitter has sold his Uruguay-based dev shop to lean startup consulting group New Context, which counts Eric Ries as a partner. The move marks the emergence of customer development as a service. Evan Henshaw-Plath is ... Read more »
Why Every Startup Needs To Stop Wasting Time & Just Go Lean
The key is then understanding the difference between value and waste using minimum effort—a technique Eric Ries has popularized and coined “ The Lean Startup .” Since first publishing his thoughts on the term “lean startup” in 2008, Ries has unintentionally gone on to create a ... Read more »
