Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

Yet several of them — Seth Godin, Eric Ries, and Gary Vaynerchuk — have recently published traditional, paper books. But these serial-entrepreneurs-turned-authors think that they can also make their traditional books compelling to tech-savvy readers by using 21st-century production, distribution and marketing strategies.

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Ries Godin Marketing Strategy Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

On one hand, celebritization will attract a huge new wave of talent from around globe to Silicon Valley and inspire many impressionable young people to aspire to become an entrepreneur rather than a Wall Street banker or a Hollywood actress. The second type of Starstruck Entrepreneur is far more dangerous. Tell them their idea is crap.

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

On one hand, celebritization will attract a huge new wave of talent from around globe to Silicon Valley and inspire many impressionable young people to aspire to become an entrepreneur rather than a Wall Street banker or a Hollywood actress. The second type of Starstruck Entrepreneur is far more dangerous. Tell them their idea is crap.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Talk to an entrepreneur or a scientist about the idea they are working on — it's just like talking to a parent of young children. As detailed by Steve Blank , Peter Sims , Eric Ries, and others, innovators should follow this mantra as well. A similar type of irrationality affects innovators. Run experiments.

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Innovation Ries Deming Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

Ries builds off the teaching of Innovation Master Steve Blank and urges entrepreneurs to "remove waste" from the creation of new businesses by being very scientific in the management of unknowns. Osterwalder's open-sourced, tool-oriented approach makes him a practitioner's dream.

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Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. According to their 2013 Year-in-Review, in the first year, Ries trained 80 coaches exclusively dedicated to FastWorks. GE is an ideal laboratory for applying Lean practices because of its scale,” Ries says.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

In The Lean Start-Up , Eric Ries talked about vanity metrics — numbers that create the illusion of success, rather than validate actual progress. In the same way, vanity entrepreneurs have deeply held illusions and misconceptions about the realities of start-up life. Vanity entrepreneurs start new ventures for the wrong reasons.

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Ries IPO Entrepreneur Maturity 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

A solution to this challenge is multi-stage financing, which allows entrepreneurs and investors to learn about the ultimate viability of an idea through a sequence of investments over time. What is often less appreciated is that this methodology is equally valuable for entrepreneurs.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

The intellectual leader of the movement is Steve Blank , a serial entrepreneur who now teaches at Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley. One of Blank's disciples, Eric Ries , turned his wildly popular Startup Lessons Learned blog into The Lean Startup , one of 2011's best business books.

Productivity 13

Productivity Products Ries Mintzberg 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Some eager entrepreneurs think their new product is so brilliant and so unlike anything else out there, that they just need to make it available and people will start clamoring over it. Most entrepreneurs are as short on cash as they are on time and they don’t think they can afford to spend either to attend to brand-building.

Brand 8

Brand Ries Entrepreneur Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The goal, says Eric Ries of The Lean Startup fame, is to create a minimum viable product that you’ll fully expect to iterate over time. But innovation of any sort entails risk and trying new things – and that mandates failure. A 100% success rate implies you’re not doing anything new at all.

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Ries Open-book Competitive Advantage Education 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. I love Lean. Create mechanisms to enable experiments.

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Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

When I quit my job to become an entrepreneur, we downsized, moving into a home with ¼ of our former living space. young professional, entrepreneur, non-profit), are required to barter, to figure out what they have to bring to the table. No longer having a beautiful space to entertain sometimes makes me wistful.

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Constraint Innovation Ries Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up , has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. So instead, I am picking a few companies with less well known stories that may resonate with today's entrepreneurs.

P&L 12

P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out. They were pitching their ideas and plans to Eric and their peers; once the pitch was complete, the group would then brainstorm.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

” Lean startup, popularized by writers and entrepreneurs like Eric Ries and Steve Blank, can deliver big benefits inside big companies. But it can also run into two brick walls that an actual startup — the mythical pair of founders working at a kitchen table — would never have to deal with.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

Al Ries and Jack Trout capture the essence of this model in their classic book Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. ” Another new brand role is entrepreneur/supporter. ” In this view, a brand is something applied to what you make. In the next wave, a brand shifted from a feature to a perception, from an object to an idea.

Brand 8

Brand Airlines Health Care Trout 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

As I described in a previous post , GE is working with Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author recognized for pioneering the Lean Startup movement. The Lean Startup approach is enabling GE to take “ Agile ” and “ Lean ” methods, which they had been using to improve operations, and apply them to starting businesses.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In The Lean Start-Up , Eric Ries, a next generation thought leader and a clear successor to Clayton Christensen, provides a scientific approach to managing innovation, whether at a one-person start-up or Fortune 100 company. A leader leans into the future.

Books 9

Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Individual entrepreneurs only need to persuade a few empowered parties that their ideas “can be financially successful; that the newspaper or magazine or book or other venture will be profitable.” Milton Friedman once argued that the beauty of private capital is that it streamlines the act of experimentation in a capitalist society.

Consensus 9

Consensus Innovation Company Ries 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Their goal was to help entrepreneurs and those inside established companies adopt a new approach, “one better suited to high-potential projects whose prospects are uncertain at the start.” The key here, says McGrath, is to have a “clear frame” for the venture and a “specific profit model.”

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8