Lean Startup Quotes & Sayings

Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously. — Eric Ries

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. — Eric Ries

The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build-the thing customers want and will pay for-as quickly as possible. In other words, the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time. — Eric Ries

HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process. — Eric Ries

We should not prioritize on the basis of project profitability, but rather on how this profitability is affected by delay. — Donald G. Reinertsen

You don't learn through sales calls, it's not customer validation. — Jason Cohen

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

In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it — Beth Comstock

Listen to your customers, not your competitors. — Joel Spolsky

The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. — Eric Ries

We have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track. — Orson Scott Card

Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government. — Todd Park

Life's too short to build something nobody wants. — Ash Maurya

The more detailed we made our plans, the longer our cycle times became — Donald G. Reinertsen

I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable product to market as soon as possible. It's my job to be entrepreneur-in-residence, an internal change agent. — Todd Park

I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector - go into Silicon Valley mode, work at startup speed, and attack, doing things in short amounts of time with extremely limited resources. — Todd Park

Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo - lean startup-style - to serve the American people better. — Todd Park

Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, explains that the best way to get to Product Market Fit is by starting with a "minimum viable product" and improving it based on feedback - as opposed to what most of us do, which is to try to launch publicly with what we think is our final, perfected product. Today, — Ryan Holiday

I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company. — Jon Oringer

The Lean Startup works only if we are able to build an organization as adaptable and fast as the challenges it faces. This — Eric Ries

The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled. — Eric Ries

I will learn by screwing up. — Greg Bear