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The Lean Startup

Disciplines:
product management
entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship/startup
ries

Summary

Eric Ries's 2011 application of lean manufacturing principles to startups — introducing build-measure-learn loops, MVPs, validated learning, and the pivot concept — the most widely read product development book of its era.

Core Contribution

Redefined startup product development around validated learning — the core insight that startups fail not from poor execution but from building something nobody wants, and that the solution is systematic testing of assumptions rather than elaborate planning.

Historical Influences

Eric Ries

Intellectual Lineage

Eric Ries Crown Business

Allied Works

Running LeanThe Startup Way

Contemporaries & Peers

Running LeanBusiness Model Generation

Minds Influenced

Product management Startup culture Lenny's Podcast

Intellectual Posterity

The Lean Startup MVP Pivot Build-Measure-Learn

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