This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.<\/p>\n
The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively.\u00a0 Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on \u201cvalidated learning,\u201d rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.<\/p>\n
Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans,\u00a0The Lean Startup<\/i>\u00a0offers entrepreneurs – in companies of all sizes – a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it\u2019s too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in an age when companies need to innovate more than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. […]<\/p>\n