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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where The Lean Startup comes up on Top Founders, the a16z Podcast, Lenny's Podcast, 20VC, A Product Market Fit Show
How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- ▶ 41:47 Martin Casado So you lean startup, and then, you know, Mark and Ben wrote, like, the art of the fat startup.
Making $$$ with Loop Engineering
- ▶ 4:18 unnamed speaker Um, maybe even like 1015 years ago, the Lean Startup book was pretty popular, and a big part of that book was this loop where you'd build something, you'd measure how it does, then you'd learn from it, then you'd build a bit more. 2 times in the scene
He churned 100% of his revenue on purpose—then grew 10x to $2M ARR in under 12 months. | Ali Khok... · PMF Show
- ▶ 23:56 Pablo Srugo Don't do like lean startup is an old idea, right?
The Lean Startup Author on What Ruins Good Companies
- ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker The lean startup, uh, was foundational to me when I came to Silicon Valley. 5 times in the scene
Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)
- ▶ 28:55 Shaan Puri Like, one of the frameworks I always liked that I think has kind of gone out of style was Eric Ries when he did the Lean Startup, and he said, basically, a company, you really have two main hypotheses.
20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify
- ▶ 5:21 Carl Rivera Ticktail was the opposite of what we learn in Lean Startup and whatever.
Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
- ▶ 12:34 Natalie Gordon Um, one of them was I read the book, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.
The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
- ▶ 8:24 Jeremy Howard What was the interesting discovery here was that when we built a platform that allows an AI to see all of those steps and to contribute to those steps, you get all of those benefits of Lean Startup, Uber, you know, UDA, NB Dev, whatever,…
He Bootstrapped Wrike to $10M ARR—then exited for $2.2B. | Andrew Filev, Founder of Wrike & Zencoder · PMF Show
- ▶ 18:44 Andrew Filev And kind of that lean startup, um, that, that, that, that idea that you kind of, uh, work very closely with and kind of, and again, this is not in the book, but in, in real life, what also means is that a lot of people would kind of tap…
Mike Maples: Your Startup Idea Isn’t Crazy Enough—And it's holding you back | Mike Maples, Founde... · PMF Show
- ▶ 4:13 Pablo Srugo And does that mean like the whole Eric Ries, you know, lean startup MVP, which I think is completely dominated the, the kind of startup narrative over the last, certainly like when I was building a startup 10 years ago, like that was the…
Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- ▶ 1:16 Martin Casado In response to the lean startup.
WebSummit Panel w/ Founders of Glean ($5B) and Huntress ($2B): What it takes to hit $100M ARR · PMF Show
- ▶ 9:20 unnamed speaker One of the things that really struck me about your, your story is, you know, everybody these days knows like the lean startup, Eric Ries, and kind of validating and stuff like that. 2 times in the scene
Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
- ▶ 28:18 Matt Turck So you, you can find out the company with Eric Ries, um, of Lean Startup fame.
Advice Line with Alberto Perlman of Zumba
- ▶ 13:45 Alberto Perlman It's called The Lean Startup.
4 microSaaS ideas you can build to make $100k/month
- ▶ 27:13 Greg Isenberg That that's, you know, the, the lean startup old school book at this point, but like the lean startup by Eric Ries talks about, um, how you don't need to actually build anything.
The 5 Steps to Product-Market Fit w/ Chris Saad, ex-Head of Product at Uber, Host of The Startup ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 9:09 Pablo Srugo I'm sure you and every single person listening to this podcast knows this book, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, obviously talks about MVP and all this sort of things. 2 times in the scene
Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll
- ▶ 11:09 Alistair Croll This new book from Eric Ries, uh, that said that the goal wasn't to lock yourself away in a garage for a year and build something nobody wanted.
How to make $20,000,000 with a landing page
- ▶ 19:10 Jonathan Courtney Hey, anybody who's reading game storming, who's read any of IDEO's books, who's read the lean startup, whatever, uh, show people these ads.
The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
- ▶ 0:47 Matt Turck And why AI founders should just trash the Lean Startup Handbook.
- ▶ 1:01:47 Clement Delangue So, uh, for example, sometimes when I meet, uh, entrepreneurs, um, and I can see that they have a lot of the lean startup principles kind of like, uh, in mind, I tell them to, to trash the book. 2 times in the scene
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 1:15:56 Mike Maples, Jr. If I look back at the great startup books, I think Steve Blank's work, Eric Ries, Lean Startup, you could argue Ben Horowitz, Hard Thing About Hard Things, Peter Thiel, Zero to One.
The $70M/yr Sports Bar + Sleepy Industries Worth $100M
April Dunford: The Marketing Expert
- ▶ 33:01 April Dunford Eric Ries, the lean startup. 2 times in the scene
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:06 Kaz Nejatian I think the book lean startup may have done more damage unintentionally to software than any other book.
- ▶ 2:21 Kaz Nejatian I think the book Lean Startup may have done more damage unintentionally to software than any other book. 2 times in the scene
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:27 Harry Stebbings My question to you is, we're told in the generation of the lean startup of the importance of speed of iteration, speed, speed, speed, and it feels like it kind of goes in conflict with the making it just right, and the time to make it… 2 times in the scene
Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and embracing AI | Cameron Adams
- ▶ 31:00 Cameron Adams Yeah, so when we launched, or when we were building, ah, the Lean Startup book came out.
CEOs Pay Him $10,000 Per Appointment
Jack Newton, Founder of Clio | How to Run a Beta Program · PMF Show
- ▶ 7:44 Jack Newton And, uh, much of the, the ideas that he puts forth in this book are, are kind of later built on and elaborated on with some of the concept front, concepts in the lean startup, for example.
The Five Steps to Product Market Fit · PMF Show
- ▶ 4:10 Pablo Srugo The first one, maybe just as context, everybody that's listening to this, 100% of you have heard of and have probably read the book, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, right? 2 times in the scene
How I lost $6M, Why hype means nothing, Plus a dozen other lessons from our last startup · PMF Show
- ▶ 21:52 Pablo Srugo and I think it was just like out of Eric Ries, you know, lean startup, this idea of a letter of intent.
$1M Startup Trends For 2024, With Michael Karnjanaprakorn
- ▶ 41:40 Greg Isenberg I was talking to Eric Reese about this from the lean startup on my recent pods.
Ep 75: Leadership Lessons with Intuit Founder & Silicon Valley Legend Scott Cook · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 10:59 Scott Cook Uh, The Lean Startup was the, you know, the book that made this famous, but there's much more on top of that. 2 times in the scene
The Biggest Startup Opportunities In 2024 | Eric Ries (The Lean Startup)
- ▶ 0:44 Greg Isenberg Uh, I read your book more than 10 years ago, The Lean Startup, and I can honestly say I wouldn't be here today without reading that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:27 Eric Ries And yes, if you don't know how to do a customer discovery interview, like go back and reread the Lean Startup or go by reread, you know, if you want an even more classic book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany, the original customer… 2 times in the scene
Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
- ▶ 1:03 Lenny Rachitsky He is most famous for creating the lean startup methodology and movement, and also his incredibly influential book, The Lean Startup.
- ▶ 5:10 Eric Ries You know, if you can believe it, the lean startup came out in 2011. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:08 Eric Ries It, it really was hard for my, just like as a, as an ego matter, I want the validation of the winning and the this, and I realized at a certain point that like the victory is not that this fancy company, you know, used it or whatever, like… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:23 Eric Ries And I was like, man, did I forget to write it in the book? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:33 Lenny Rachitsky If you could go back and change something in the book, is there something that you would want to change? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:59 Eric Ries Just call me back when you get a job and you make, when you make one of these mistakes, like, remember, we had these conversations and go read the book then.
- ▶ 43:46 Eric Ries And if you're having trouble with that in, in the, in the startup way, in the sequel to Lean Startup, I really go through, cause it's really more for a corporate large company audience.
- ▶ 2:06:42 Eric Ries And I, a version of that is in the lean startup. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:10:26 Eric Ries I, for me, it's so old that like every day that people read the book for the first time and they're like, they have a question about it.
How I Missed a $10B Opportunity Because of Bad Customer Discovery · PMF Show
- ▶ 20:43 Pablo Srugo If you read something like four hour work week or lean startup, I think it's easy to figure the thing that, and I certainly fell into this, like,
How he spun his software out of a corporation and hit first 5 paying customers
- ▶ 17:50 Yannick Dickel Uh, favorite book, I'd say, A Lean Startup from Eric Ries.
22 yo Launches B2B Fraud Prevention SaaS That Will Tell you if the China Steel Company is Real or Not
- ▶ 14:49 Farhan Afsahi Uh, The Lean Startup.
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR
- ▶ 3:51 Rajan Maruthavanan We looked at Lean Sheen startup, or whatever was the fashion of the day, like whatever is the fashion of today, we were looking at frameworks, and we said, you know, can we use it?
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 30:47 Salim Ismail One is like the lean startup, constantly testing assumptions and running them, and also inculcating a culture of taking risk so that the organization is constantly learning.
How He Grew Nutrisense From $12m to $45m ARR Last 12 Months for Health SaaS
- ▶ 21:23 Dan Zavorotny Uh, lead startup.
Founder-led sales | Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales, Atrium)
- ▶ 9:45 Pete Kazanjy To Eric Reese's like the lean startup or like Steve Blanks, um, four steps to the epiphany or like startup owners manual or whatever, where if you think about the stages of, um, you know, that like, and this is all B to B, right?
The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher)
- ▶ 12:07 Madhavan Ramanujam So I think, look, most of your listeners are many, uh, you know, most product folks, they probably understand, you know, language like product market fit, especially made famous from lean startup and other kind of, you know, literature,…
Building the Right Product, At the Right Time, For the Right People - with Jack Butcher
- ▶ 10:14 Greg Isenberg You know, when I was coming up, the lean startup was such a important book and it was a book about how do you, you know, test ideas, iterate, validate the ideas and this whole loop around it.
How to Pivot to Product Market Fit | Mike Murchison, Founder of Ada ($1B+ Valuation) · PMF Show
- ▶ 30:01 Mike Murchison That really is the precursor to what became The Lean Startup.
Bootstrapped to $1m in Under 18 Months, How he's growing his ATS SaaS
- ▶ 13:56 Taylor Bergen My favorite business book has to be the lean startup.
He Just Sold 25% For $2m, Can he Hit $1.2m ARR Next?
- ▶ 19:30 Biz Kundu Roy Um, the lean startup.
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised
- ▶ 19:47 Cenk Siddhar Uh, I like the, uh, the, the lean, the Eric, uh, Lean Startup.
Restaurant SaaS Pivots From Marketplace, Hits $50k in MRR, Raising $7m Now
- ▶ 16:20 Andrea Tassistro Um, The Lean Startup.
Can Bindle beat Clear to Handle COVID Records as NFT's?
- ▶ 15:56 Carlos Corton Um, uh, Lean Startup.
The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge, HubSpot's ex-CRO
- ▶ 16:16 Mark Roberge Thanks to Eric Ries and Lean Startup.
20VC: Twilio's Jeff Lawson on What It Takes To Create a Tribe, How To Create Anti-Fragile Organisations Through Decentralised Decision-Making and Why Values Are Nice But Principles Are Better
- ▶ 26:16 Jeff Lawson Therefore, like I liken it to, you know, when I've talked to Eric Reese, you know, of the lean startup, who's a good friend, we often joke about the idea that like, you know, people are often very opposed to like, you know, trying a lot of…
Policygenius: Jennifer Fitzgerald
- ▶ 28:10 Jennifer Fitzgerald We read books like The Lean Startup, or at least I did, because I had no idea what I was getting into.
The Right Way to Build a Bootstrapped Community with WeekendClub
- ▶ 12:51 Charlie Ward Um, I mean, oh, it's a pretty obvious one, like The Lean Startup, but everyone's read that at this point, right?
Robinhood: Vlad Tenev
- ▶ 39:53 Vlad Tenev So I think, um, the lean startup methodology, if, if you're familiar with that, basically, um, Eric Ries wrote this book, The Lean Startup, about how to market consumer products.
$3M in 12 Months With 5 Employees — Here's the Model
- ▶ 22:49 Adam Robinson A lot of people have heard of the lean startup. 2 times in the scene
How To Collaborate, Manage & Work With Developers With Jeff Lawson, CEO Twilio
- ▶ 38:32 Jeff Lawson And so the things I would say is, you know, first of all, read Eric Reese's book, The Lean Startup.
45% of This Cancer Drug Was Fake — Here's How We Proved It
- ▶ 31:26 Hugo Garcia-Cotte Is, for me, it was Lean Startup. 5 times in the scene
Limble is Maintenance Automation Software, hits $2m Revenue, Bootstrapped Using 5% Debt
- ▶ 18:40 Brian Christensen Yeah, lean startup.
Wemby Hits $100k Revenue Giving Your Team Therapy Sessions
- ▶ 15:11 Alberto Fantapi Uh, I can say the one I started, I read like a long time ago was, uh, The Lean Startup, but I agree with.
"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? "
- ▶ 22:54 Anders Fredriksson The Lean Startup.
1758 Funnel Analysis: Online Events Platform $0 to $1.8m in Revenue In 2 Months
- ▶ 21:10 Johnny Boufarhat Um, I would say probably, um, The Lean Startup, I'd probably say.
1738 How He Got First Enterprise Customers to Pay $120k ACV's
- ▶ 13:22 Sonny Patel I would say the lean startup.
20VC: Gusto Co-Founder, Tomer London on Why Most Founders Approach Fundraising With The Wrong Mindset Today, How To Construct A Values/Motivation Alignment Test To Determine The Right Investors For You & Why Delight Is So Crucial To The Success of Any Con
- ▶ 15:27 Tomer London You know, MVP was all the rage in Silicon Valley with the lead startup and all that.
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space
- ▶ 13:01 Jesse Leimgruber Favorite business book has got to be, uh, the lean startup or zero to one.
1639 How This Company Hit $10M Valuation Serving Real Estate Value Investors
- ▶ 16:05 Mark Rutzen Uh, but the lean startup is my all time favorite.
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1
- ▶ 17:05 James Sturges Probably the lean startup.
1543 They'll Help You Manufacture Your Product for 1/4th the Cost as Other Brokers, $100k in MRR, 20 Customers
- ▶ 14:17 Rich Mokuolu Uh, gosh, uh, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.
Eric Ries – Lean Start-Ups and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (Capital Allocators, EP.107)
1491 $1k/mo Scheduling Tool Turns Down $5m Offer, would you do the same?
- ▶ 13:38 Corey Warfield Uh, lean startup by far.
1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue
- ▶ 13:38 Søren Munk Hansen The Lean Startup, I think, it's quite a lot, actually.
1450 20k Customers and $1m in ARR Event Management Company Started as Wife Project
- ▶ 15:33 Seth Shoultes Oh, my favorite business book is, uh, let's see, free, um, or actually the lean startup. 2 times in the scene
1349 Blogger Mentions Tool, Now $100k in ARR and CEO Doubling Down
- ▶ 14:14 Francois Mommens Uh, I'd like actually to recommend a classic, the Lean Startup, because it's been really useful for me, uh, from the start since the, the first version of LeanCody that I've developed in, in three weeks only, uh, at the time, back in the… 2 times in the scene
1329 His Product? A Daily Email, 172k Milennial Subscribers and $100k+ in Revenue
- ▶ 15:31 Case Kenney Uh, the lean startup.
1326 Can He Combine Mailchimp, Hubspot, Zenefits at $99/mo Price Point and Win SMB's Over?
- ▶ 15:43 Jeff Roberts My favorite business book, uh, The Lean Startup.
1310 After GoDaddy Acquisition, He Built Support Version of Intercom, Now $1.5m in ARR, 100% yoy growth
1308 Salesforce for Lawyers Passes $3m in ARR, Basically Bootstrapped
- ▶ 13:04 Michael Chasen Uh, I had to do Lane Startup Method. 2 times in the scene
Canva: Melanie Perkins
- ▶ 28:19 Melanie Perkins So, like, the lean startup was a big deal back then, um, and, you know, launch and iterate and, you know, do something in a weekend and see if people like it.
a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
- ▶ 40:08 Jez Humble Again, not just in product development, you know, the lean startup fail early, fail often, but also in the way we deal with problems at an operational level as well.
a16z Podcast | Of Policy, Capital, and the Startup Ecosystem
- ▶ 20:57 Scott Cooper Uh, you know, there's, uh, you know, somebody who I'm sure many people have heard from, Eric Reese, you know, who's, you know, very famous for the lean startup activity he did on our podcast.
a16z Podcast | Beyond Lean Startups
- ▶ 0:04 Sonal Chokshi I'm Sonal, and Michael and I are here together interviewing Eric Ries, who wrote the book on the Lean Startup, and it's been actually now over five, is that right, Eric, about over five years since that, that book came out? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:53 Michael Copeland What is a lean startup? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:51 Eric Ries When I was doing the research for the Lean Start, this is probably the five year anniversary. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:23 Sonal Chokshi Like, how do you, how does Lean Startup kind of help with that?
- ▶ 34:53 Eric Ries Like I said, I think being able to derive Lean Startup from first principles is very helpful.
- ▶ 44:42 Eric Ries It's really interesting because people really love the bumper sticker version of lean startup. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:25 Michael Copeland Yeah, but it is part of this kind of, I don't know, language and culture and, and fascination with what you've done with Lean Startup. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 40:15 Marc Andreessen Um, so the Lean Startup book by Eric Reese is very, very good, um, and that book should be read front to back. 4 times in the scene
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