“I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.” Quote by Eric Ries
“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.” IfsMatterMovingCyclesBubbles Author:Eric Ries
“Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.” CompanyProductsBusyDisaster Author:Eric Ries
“The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.” CompanyMovementBuiltImpactSignificant Author:Eric Ries
“Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.” WantFeelsNumbersVanityCompetitorsPublishMetrics Author:Eric Ries
“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.” NeedsShouldKindCompanyFocusProductsCustomers Author:Eric Ries
“As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.” IfsTryingRealFeltCompanyPlansRiskPossibilitySeriousLimitsEntrepreneurLifetimeFinancialIllnessDuesRuinsCoveredTry AgainSerious Illness Author:Eric Ries
“At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.” FiveCostTwentiesDollarsCustomersCampaignsCentsRevenueAcquisitionTwenty Five Author:Eric Ries
“Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.” IdeasCompanyBuildingProductsEntrepreneurshipRight TimeRight Place Author:Eric Ries
“Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.” IfsNeedsTryingCasesWorryWasteProductionsCopiesWasting TimeCompetitorsBreakthroughToastsPatents Author:Eric Ries
“I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.” GivingDifferentAgeFoundNamesProcessSimpleGive MeGenderConvincedCandidatesEmployeeShockedSelectionResumesBiased Author:Eric Ries
