The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Hardback - 2012
by Eric Ries
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Readers tend to view The Lean Startup as a seminal but imperfect guide to entrepreneurial management. Its core ideas—minimum viable products, Build?Measure?Learn loops, actionable metrics, and pivots—are praised for steering teams toward testing assumptions early and iterating with real customers. Many found it motivating and practically useful, especially for software and digital products. Critiques cluster around style and scope: the prose can be repetitive and didactic, the evidence overly anecdotal for a work that claims scientific rigor, and the examples skew heavily to web services, raising doubts about applicability to hardware-heavy or regulated industries. Overall, it’s valued more as a clarifying mindset and shared vocabulary than as a step?by?step manual.
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- Title The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- Author Eric Ries
- Binding Hardback
- Pages 406
- Volumes 1
- Language JPN
- Publisher Nikken BP Sha
- Publication date 2012-07
- ISBN 9784822248970 / 4822248976
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 7.4 x 5.1 x 1.1 in (18.80 x 12.95 x 2.79 cm)
- Category Small Business/Entrepreneurship
- Dewey Decimal Code 658.11
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