Vanity metrics are the
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. Eric Ries
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Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. Eric Ries
Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: ‘If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.’ I’d like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, … Read more
The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision. Eric Ries
If we stopped wasting people’s time, what would they do with it? Eric Ries
Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family’s access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance. Eric Ries
It doesn’t matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down. Eric Ries
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists. Eric Ries
A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title. Eric Ries
Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as ‘providing benefit to the customer’; anything else is waste. Eric Ries
Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn’t make it: It’s the ones that might have been created but weren’t. Eric Ries