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- Sprache: Englisch
The must-read summary of Eric Reis' book: "The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses"
This complete summary of the ideas in Eric Reis' book "The Lean Startup" shows that most startups tend to burn through their resources and then disappear because they never get around to seeing what their potential customers think of what they’re developing. With this accessible summary, you will learn how to do just that in a fast and effective way, using the Build-Measure-Learn loop. In the end, you will be able to offer your customers a fully-featured product, which they will love.
Added-value of this summary:
• Save time
• Understand key concepts
• Expand your business knowledge
To learn more, read "The Lean Startup" and discover how to focus efficiently on what your customer really want.
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Seitenzahl: 35
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013
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Book Presentation: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Summary of The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
Book Presentation: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Book Abstract
Main idea
Why do so many startups fail?
The business myth says: A lone entrepreneur – beavering away in a lab or a garage somewhere – through hard work, grit and sheer perseverance develops a great product which then becomes a blockbuster hit. That sounds appealing but the reality is most startups tend to burn through their resources and then disappear because they never get around to seeing what their potential customers think of what they’re developing. They worry about the product first and assume customer demand will be there automatically.
To succeed with a startup, you’ve got to manage it differently. Instead of developing a business plan, find ways to accelerate your learning and validate customers demand. The best way to do this is to build a prototype (with minimal features) and sell it to some early adopters. Then change the product repeatedly – daily if necessary – and keep supplying your customers with the new and improved versions. Listen to their feedback and use those ideas to make a better version and then get more feedback on that. Keep iterating until you get a fully featured product which your customers love.
In other words, go through the Build-Measure-Learn loop as often as you can. If you make validated learning the real aim of your startup, you stand a better chance of success. Focus on what customers want, utilize an extremely fast cycle time and take a scientific approach to making decisions. That’s the essence of the Lean Startup approach.
About the Author
ERIC RIES is an entrepreneur and blog author. He is a cofounder and chief technology officer of IMVU, a virtual community developer. He is also a frequent keynote speaker and is currently entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School. The Lean Startup methodology has been written about in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review and the Huffington Post.
The Web site for this book is at www.TheLeanStartup.com.
Important Note About This Ebook
This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.
Summary of The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
The Lean Startup methodology – Vision
Never forget that learning is the true measure of progress for a startup. The aim of any startup should be first and foremost to use scientific experimentation to discover how to build a sustainable business. Anything else is a bonus.
The standard approach to building a startup usually goes something like this:
Someone comes along with a vision which is often a variation of “Let’s go build a thriving business which produces a world-class product that consumers love.”
To achieve that vision, a strategy gets developed along the lines of: This is the business model we will use.Here is our planned product and service lineup.We’d like to work with these partners.Our competitors will be these firms.Our target customers will have these traits.The end result of that strategy is a product or service then gets made and sold in the marketplace.Using this model, the conventional view of an entrepreneur is someone who is hard driving, not easily distracted by detours along the way and who has a “Just do it” attitude and determination. Entrepreneurs come on board and steer the startup through to where the product is in the marketplace and marketing is working its magic. Setbacks are merely learning opportunities along the way to ultimate success.
In real life, being an entrepreneur is more of an exercise in management skills than anything else. Any startup is a portfolio of activities, all happening simultaneously. At any time:
New customers are being acquired.Existing customers are being supported.The innovation initiative is happening in the background.Fine-tuning of the marketing is going on.A decision is being made on whether to change the strategy.The product is still being optimized.
