Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer anything else is waste. – Eric Ries
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst. – Eric Ries
The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource – the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation. – Eric Ries
Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as the X of Y, so this is going to be the Microsoft of food. And yet disruptive innovations usually dont have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isnt. – Eric Ries