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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

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I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. I just assumed that everybody would love the book as much as I did, and would instantly change their behavior based on what they read in a book.

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What is Lean about the Lean Startup?

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That foundational idea, so clearly articulated in books like Lean Thinking, is what originally led me to start using the term lean startup. I had a background in lean manufacturing (book knowledge, anyway) and lean software development (hands on) before encountering Lean Startups. A/B testing is set-based design.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

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Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

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His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. Yet there is one specific technique that I learned most clearly from this book: asking why five times. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

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Reinertsen is the book for you. Its quite simply the most advanced product development book you can buy. For those who hunger for a rigorous approach to managing product development, Donald Reinertsens book is epic. The book is structured as a series of principles, logically laid out and briefly discussed - 175 in all.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

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For example, if your publishing company is thinking of putting out a coffee table book in the U.S. You know you can produce such a volume; the processes you already use for publishing lavish books on baking cakes nearly all apply here.) One way to find out if anybody will buy the book is to go ahead and publish it.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Eric, love the blog.