# The Lean Startup ## Metadata * Author: [Eric Ries](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B004J4XGN6 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004J4XGN6 * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004J4XGN6) ## Highlights The Lean Startup asks people to start measuring their productivity differently. Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and — location: [284](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004J4XGN6&location=284) ^ref-48845 --- A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. — location: [375](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004J4XGN6&location=375) ^ref-49955 --- And what it does is develop entrepreneurs, because when you have only one test, you don’t have entrepreneurs, you have politicians, because you have to sell. — location: [457](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004J4XGN6&location=457) ^ref-19363 --- “Developing these experimentation systems is the responsibility of senior management; they have to be put in by the leadership. It’s moving leaders from playing Caesar with their thumbs up and down on every idea to—instead—putting in the culture and the systems so that teams can move and innovate at the speed of the experimentation system.” — location: [491](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004J4XGN6&location=491) ^ref-38951 --- Do consumers recognize that they have the problem you are trying to solve? — location: [864](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004J4XGN6&location=864) ^ref-11985 --- If there was a solution, would they buy it? 3. Would they buy it from us? 4. Can we build a solution for that problem?” — location: [865](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004J4XGN6&location=865) ^ref-25739 --- “Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer’s problem.” — location: [897](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004J4XGN6&location=897) ^ref-22139 --- solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title. — location: [1837](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004J4XGN6&location=1837) ^ref-60664 ---