The Lean Startup

　　新創事業是推動世界變化的主要因素之一，Google、Facebook、twitter這些最初兩三人組成的公司，改變了全世界的生活方式。統計上來看，絕大多數的初創事業都是失敗的，只有少數人、少數夢想能夠成真。

　　本書作者仔細提出全然不同傳統思維的「精實創業」方法，希望讓每個有好主意、好技術的人都能走向成功之路。這套方法在短時間內在全世界獲得熱烈迴響，美國商業雜誌Portfolio選為2011年最重要的觀念。

　　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. 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.

　　The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively.  Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” 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.

　　Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs - in companies of all sizes - a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it’s too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.

　　★本書中譯版《精實創業：用小實驗玩出大事業》由行人出版。

作者簡介

艾瑞克．萊斯（Eric Ries）

　　創業家，同時也是知名部落格《初創經驗談》（Startup Lessons Learned）的作者，是其第三家初創業事業IMVU公司的共同創辦人之一與首席科技長。萊斯經常受邀於各大商業活動中發表演說，並曾擔任多家初創公司、大企業、創投企業的商業與產品策略顧問，也是哈佛商學院的創業導師。其所倡導的精實創業理論受到眾多媒體的報導，包括紐約時報、華爾街日報、哈佛商業週刊、哈芬登郵報、以及許多部落格等。萊斯目前居住於美國加州舊金山。更多資訊請見：WWW.THELEANSTARTUP.COM

　　ERIC RIES is an entrepreneur and author of the popular blog Startup Lessons Learned. He co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup, and has had plenty of startup failures along the way. He is a frequent speaker at business events, has advised a number of startups, large companies, and venture capital firms on business and product strategy, and is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School. His Lean Startup methodology has been written about in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, the Huffington Post, and many blogs. He lives in San Francisco.