Women on Business

AUGUST 1, 2012

Guest Post by Laura Ries (learn more about Laura at the end of this article): Talk about “having it all.” ” Marissa Mayer is “the woman that made Google successful.” You could work for General Electric for 50 years and never be “the woman that made GE successful. ” See the difference.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

They're what Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup , calls "vanity metrics.". That's what Ries calls an "engine of growth.". These metrics are valuable because they measure success at your core business. Seek out what Ries refers to as "actionable metrics." Those metrics are the most common false idols of analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

Yet several of them — Seth Godin, Eric Ries, and Gary Vaynerchuk — have recently published traditional, paper books. The key: Godin, Ries, and Vaynerchuk are all practicing what they preach. Meanwhile, Eric Ries, is using his new book, The Lean Startup , to experiment with the marketing principles he espouses in its pages.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Since Ford was eventually wildly successful, this aphorism does reassure, but it also jauntily skips over the emotional precipice on which we teeter when we fail. It's about learning the right kind of lesson, or what Lean Startup guru Eric Ries describes as validated learning. It's not just that you learn a lesson.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Since Ford was eventually wildly successful, this aphorism does reassure, but it also jauntily skips over the emotional precipice on which we teeter when we fail. It's about learning the right kind of lesson, or what Lean Startup guru Eric Ries describes as validated learning. It's not just that you learn a lesson.

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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. and compete successfully.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The value of failure has become a mantra in Silicon Valley, with the rise of events like FailCon , a conference “for startup founders to study their own and others’ failures and prepare for success.” Here’s how to leverage that setback into even greater success. A 100% success rate implies you’re not doing anything new at all.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

T REN GRIFFIN, who writes the well-read 25iq blog , has assembled a collection of insights for entrepreneurs from some of the most successful venture capitalists and coaches of business founders in the world. What follows are some of the thoughts that resonated with me: Eric Ries: “The mistake isn’t releasing something bad.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

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. Raw potential can develop into world-class talent, but the portraits of most successful startups feature some gray-haired people who have "been there and done that.".

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

One of the ways successful companies consistently create separation from the competitive pack is by critically examining and improving the business model from end to end,” says Chris Shimojima, the CEO of Provide Commerce. Ries points out that at most companies, “the resources flow to the person with the most confident, best plan.

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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. And as ubiquitous stories of success spread in social media, these illusions become powerful self-delusions. The problem isn't what the message says, but what it doesn't.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Successful agile teams focus on problem statements. They need to be presented with the business problem and a measurable definition of a successful outcome. The freedom to experiment with solutions, validate design ideas and refine successful designs results in a rapidly iterative process. That was not our definition of success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Nick is a typical manager at a one of the world’s most successful widget companies. Success, right? 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.” Consider the story of Nick.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

One minute, you've never heard of Eric Ries , and the next he's on the cover of Inc. Malcolm Gladwell references their experience in his famous "10,000 hours" argument in Outliers: The Story of Success.) Her fan base was growing, a necessary prerequisite for later widespread success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you're willing to acknowledge the barriers in your way, there are a few tried and true levers you can pull to ensure your intrapreneurial endeavors are better positioned for success. Your team comes up with a model that's wildly successful; their excess widgets sell like hotcakes. Create autonomy. Test to learn. Use your brain.

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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. Here the company was challenged to prove it could repeat its success with its first product. Akamai Going Forward.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on.

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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. The language has been widely adopted, and that includes some folks who haven''t yet had the chance to read Ries'' work or digest the ideas behind it. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When I recently asked a group of successful professional women to list their favorite books about entrepreneurship, the list skewed largely male. In Mindset , psychologist Carol Dweck writes: "it isn't just our abilities and talent that bring our success — but whether we approach our goals with a fixed or growth mindset."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

And to make it happen, they're learning to shed the red tape, meetings, managers, and memos that made industrial-age business such a dreary, dismal drag.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

To borrow a phrase from Silicon Valley thought leader and author Eric Ries , they "achieved a failure." They weren't discovering new opportunities or developing new products; instead, they were relying on the success of competitors to identify the areas they targeted. And they were all big," Barnholt recalls, "But they all failed!

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 6, 2011

Last week, legendary brand positioning expert Al Ries weighed in on Starbucks reported desire to move away from its powerful ‘specialist’ strategy. His success is an understatement. The Tragic Fall from Specialist to Generalist: Starbucks, the Latest Victim. Did you like this? Share it: Tweet.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. Most have had limited success. Service-based companies selling products has not been a wildly successful endeavor for the majority of marketing agencies. Here are five new attributes that I think marketing agencies will need to develop to survive: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

To understand the downsides and why they’re important, though, it helps to understand why staged venture-capital financing has been so successful in the first place. One of the fundamental elements of commercializing new ventures is the high failure rate they face. Today, Ethereum’s market capitalization is $24 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Approaches like these overlook the importance of brand strategy as the foundation for a successful launch. Tech start-ups employ the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) concept, made popular by Eric Ries in The Lean Start-Up , to test product hypotheses with minimal resources.

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Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. Hopefully, all the expensive market research was right on and success would follow. In my management 3.0 It begins with a different starting point.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Given Apple''s success, it is not surprising to see many executives following Jobs'' lead. Similarly, organizations like GE are investing in innovation accelerators that pair product teams with outside experts (like Eric Ries, author of Lean Startup) to coach teams in launching new initiatives with a more entrepreneurial mindset. (We

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Define success. Before the venture is launched, decide what success will look like in concrete terms. The reverse income statement forces you to articulate what success would look like and “allows you to see if you’re getting off track really early.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 26, 2011

Here is a blog post by my friend Tom Butler-Bowdon, author of the five volumes that comprise the 50 Classics series, published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing. * * * I’m delighted to be blogging for the new UK version of Huffington Post. Have a look at my latest post Before They Were Famous, which reveals [.].

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

“Startnership” success, however, is all too rare. The key common denominator to success isn’t careful planning and comprehensive analysis, but taking fast, cheap, and simple pilots seriously. Successful pilot partnerships favor fast focus over comprehensive planning. Think “lean pilots.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

The book details the five behaviors that help power innovation success (associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting), and provides a raft of practical tips to get better at innovation. The duo (who are affiliated with Innosight) wrote a great book with Clayton Christensen last year called The Innovator's DNA.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The widespread adoption of Eric Ries 's work beyond Silicon Valley has been a godsend for innovators. The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

As Eric Ries teaches in his books The Lean Startup and The Startup Way , productive failure entails moving forward quickly, understanding that you will be wrong part of the time, learning from your failures, and then using those learnings to correct course and move forward to success. Develop a Portfolio Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Since 2012, I’ve co-hosted The Lean Startup Conference with Eric Ries. After you’ve had a conference with a more diverse lineup of strong speakers, not only will you find it easier to repeat that success, you’ll also be in a better position to expand your attendee base. Be deeply transparent. Override your gut.

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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. How long should a successful small-scale market test be nurtured by the original team before it is passed along to a business unit for a broader roll-out?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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