In a previous post, I wrote about how large companies are poised to be the greatest beneficiaries of the lean startup movement. We are entering an era of technology that is well suited to the ...

Innovation is often born from individuals who view design as a way to shape forward-thinking ideas. While design alone can’t deliver the promise of innovation, frameworks—such as design thinking and ...

Ries is, at first glance, very different from the quality gurus who presided–either physically or in spirit–over GE in the last century. In the 1950s William Edwards Deming taught the Japanese to ...

When Silicon Valley entrepreneur Eric Ries started writing his book The Lean Startup, he had no idea he’d ever be talking about the public sector. The Lean Startup, after all, is all about creating ...

Market research statistics indicate that more than 300 million startups are launched globally each year. Of that amount, only about 10% manage to become successful businesses. Startups in the digital ...

Although minimum viable products and iterative development originally took hold among startups, today, virtually every innovative technology organization I speak with uses this approach. Conversations ...

Eisenmann, Thomas, Eric Ries, and Sarah Dillard. "Hypothesis-Driven Entrepreneurship: The Lean Startup." Harvard Business School Background Note 812-095, December 2011. (Revised July 2013.) ...

If you believe lean startup methods lead to “cheap” products and companies, or that lean startup companies don’t think big, think again. The lean startup methodology is an approach for getting new ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Lean is good. Fat is bad. Right? Maybe not. Ask the polar bear if he doesn’t store fat, how would he survive the winter? This furry ...