The Lean Startup Has Evolved Into A

The Biggest Start-up Successes - From Henry Ford To Bill Gates To Mark Zuckerberg - Were Pioneered By People From Solidly Middle-class Backgrounds. These Founders Were Not Wealthy When They Began. They Were Hungry For Success, But Knew They Had A Solid Support System To Fall Back On If They Failed.

Products A Start-up Builds Are Really Experiments…learning About How To Build A Sustainable Business Is The Outcome Of Those Experiments [which Follow] A Three-step Process: Build, Measure, Learn.” “[a Startup Is] … An Organization Dedicated To Creating Something New Under Conditions Of Extreme Uncertainty.

The Only Way To Win Is To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else.

We Need To Reengineer Companies To Focus On Figuring Out Who The Customer Is, What's The Market And What Kind Of Product You Should Build.

The Mistake Isn't Releasing Something Bad. The Mistake Is To Launch It And Get Pr People Involved. You Don't Want People To Start Amping Up Expectations For An Early Version Of Your Product. The Best Entrepreneurship Happens In Low-stakes Environments Where No One Is Paying Attention, Like Mark Zuckerberg's Dorm Room At Harvard.