About the book
Entrepreneur Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, carries the thinking of that earlier book into a much wider range of organizations. The Lean Startup dealt with building a minimum viable product, testing ideas in a build, measure and learn cycle, and deciding whether to pivot or persevere. Here Ries draws on five years of work with established firms such as GE and Toyota, technology companies including Facebook and Amazon, younger firms like Twilio and Airbnb, plus nonprofits and governments. From those cases he builds a system of entrepreneurial management meant to bring lasting growth to organizations in any industry. Its lessons are framed for businesses of all kinds.
Reid Hoffman endorsed it as required reading for a pivot-or-perish business world, Arianna Huffington praised its picture of companies becoming more agile and resilient, and Seth Godin called it a future classic.
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This book has 7 recommendations
Reid Hoffman (CEO/Linkedin)
Continuous innovation is the key to long-term impact and success. Eric shows how organizations of all kinds—not just startups—can be built to learn and adapt. In the pivot-or-perish networked world of twenty-first-century business, this is mission critical reading.
Brad D. Smith (CEO/Intuit)
The Startup Way is a wonderful decoder ring for those seeking to create, nurture, and sustain entrepreneurial thinking in companies at any size and scale. Rich with case studies showcasing real world applications and lessons learned, The Startup Way builds on the proven techniques from The Lean Startup with the next generation of best practices for companies of all sizes and industries.
Aaron Levie (Co-founder/Box)
The Startup Way teaches companies of all sizes how to effectively incubate and maintain an entrepreneurial culture through growth by allowing employees to find their inner entrepreneur. A must read, especially, by all leaders burdened by legacy organizational baggage and processes.
Jennifer Pahlka (Founder/Code for America)
If The Startup Way can transform the federal government -- and it has -- it can transform your company. For everyone who's thought 'there has to be a better way,' here's your proof and a playbook to make it happen.
Arianna Huffington (Founder/The Huffington Post)
In The Startup Way, Eric Ries uses his years of work with companies like GE and Toyota to show us what the company of the future will look like. If you want to know how companies can become more agile, more innovative, and more resilient in the face of today’s relentless pace of change, this is the book for you.
Seth Godin (Author & Entrepreneur)
A future classic, a book that will inspire thousands of companies to leap into a much needed re-invention.
Erik Cheong (Co-Founder/Park N Parcel)
This book is filled with in-the-field stories, insights, and tools. Eric lays out a system of entrepreneurial management that leads organizations of all sizes and from every industry to sustainable growth and long-term impact. So far, I feel this book is focused more on multinational corporations (MNC) rather than startups, it basically talks about embedding startups within corporate.
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