Quote

Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

Eric Ries

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Eric Ries
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: September 22
Author
Entrepreneur
Writer
Process
Engineered
Means
Genes
Place
Consequence
Right
Following
Mean
Learned
Good
Taught
Time
Start
Success

More quotes by Eric Ries

Image
Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.
Eric Ries
Image
Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.
Eric Ries
Image
We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.
Eric Ries
Image
A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.
Eric Ries
Image
All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.
Eric Ries
Image
The way forward is to learn to see every startup in any industry as a grand experiment.
Eric Ries
Image
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.
Eric Ries
Image
In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.
Eric Ries
Image
A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.
Eric Ries
Image
When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the beginning of the PC revolution that ultimately dealt a death-blow to dozens of older companies.
Eric Ries
Image
If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.
Eric Ries
Image
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.
Eric Ries
Image
Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.
Eric Ries
Image
Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.
Eric Ries
Image
If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?
Eric Ries
Image
This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
Eric Ries
Image
Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.
Eric Ries
Image
Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
Eric Ries
Image
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
Eric Ries
Image
Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow] a three-step process: Build, measure, learn.” “[A startup is] … an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
Eric Ries