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《精益创业》是创业管理领域的重磅之作,也绝对有潜质经受时间的考验,成为创业管理的经典图书。《精益创业》提供了不同于传统管理理论的、针对新创公司或大企业新创业务的科学管理模式。“精益创业”的理念极大影响了美国新创企业的创业模式,并在全球范围内具有很大的影响力,学习“精益创业”理念已经成为一项全球运动。创业者们在各地建立成员小组,探讨和运用精益创业的思维。现在,全世界一百多个城市中都有组织起来的精益创业实践社团。
精益创业的理念也受到越来越多中国创业者的亲睐,创新工场董事长兼首席执行官李开复多次在微博和论坛中推荐“精益创业”的理念,并在本书的推荐序中写道:“我看到‘精益创业’的方式在每一天的实践中被验证、被传承、被传播。过去,它缔造了Facebook、Twitter等强大的崭新的科技公司;未来,它将不断影响、渗透、改变着创业者,促使他们缔造的企业更加人性化、更加智能化、更加有爱、更加成功……属于这一代创业者的传奇才刚刚开始,苹果、谷歌、Facebook的颠覆者一定会在精益创业模式下诞生。今天,《精益创业》这本书把近10年来闪光的智慧珍珠初步连结成了一串项链,而更多体系化的总结与演绎,仍有待于更多关注者和记录者的加入。
内容简介
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.
The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.
Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs - in companies of all sizes - a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it’s too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.
我们正处在一个空前的全球创业兴盛时代,但无数创业公司都黯然收场,以失败告终。精益创业代表了一种不断形成创新的新方法,它源于“精益生产”的理念,提倡企业进行“验证性学习”,先向市场推出极简的原型产品,然后在不断地试验和学习中,以小的成本和有效的方式验证产品是否符合用户需求,灵活调整方向。如果产品不符合市场需求,“快速地失败、廉价地失败”,而不要“昂贵地失败”;如果产品被用户认可也应该不断学习,挖掘用户需求,迭代优化产品。这一模式不仅针对车库创业派,对于全球企业内部的新创业务也同样适用。
创业是在充满不确定性的情况下进行产品或服务创新。新创企业还不知道他们的产品应该是什么样的,他们的顾客在哪里。计划和预测只能基于长期、稳定的运营历史和相对静止的环境。而这些条件新创企业都不具备。有时候我们自己觉得产品会非常受欢迎,所以花费巨大精力,在各种细小的问题上进行打磨,结果,产品推到市场后,消费者很残酷地表示他们不需要这个东西。如果我们的生意本身不被市场需要,那么我们失败来的越快越好,这意味着我们耗费更少的资金和精力在错误的事情上。
埃里克将精益创业提炼为一个反馈循环:想法-开发-测量-认知-新的想法。根据这种模式,我们创业的第一步是把想法变为产品,而且这时开发的产品是精简的原型,投入小的金钱和精力开发出体现核心价值的产品,不要在许多细枝末节上耗费过多精力。当极简功能的产品得到用户认可后,创业者需要把控局势,在不断的反馈和循环中测试产品,快速作出调整和改变,迭代优化产品,挖掘用户需求,达到爆发式增长。新创企业必须在消耗完启动资金之前,以小的成本、在短时间里找到有价值的认知。
作者简介
ERIC RIES is an entrepreneur and author of the popular blog Startup Lessons Learned. He co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup, and has had plenty of startup failures along the way. He is a frequent speaker at business events, has advised a number of startups, large companies, and venture capital firms on business and product strategy, and is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School. His Lean Startup methodology has been written about in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, the Huffington Post, and many blogs. He lives in San Francisco.
埃里克·里斯,IMUV联合创始人及CTO,哈佛商学院驻校企业家,其“精益创业”的理念被《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、《哈佛商业评论》、《赫芬顿邮报》等多家媒体广泛报道。他还为多家新创企业、大型公司及风险投资公司提供商业及产品战略方面的咨询服务。
精彩书评
"Even though most startups and new products fail, we're still entranced as a culture with the rags-to-riches romance of entrepreneurial stories of solitary striving, perseverance, and creative genius. The 30-something founder and CTO of the startup IMVU, Ries developed the strategy he calls the Lean Startup: the application of lean thinking to the process of innovation. His theory of the Lean Startup works according to five principles: entrepreneurs are everywhere; entrepreneurship is management; validated learning; build-measure-learn; and innovation accounting. He recounts his successes and failures, analyzes the success of startups Groupon and Dropbox, and suggests ways to help people develop techniques that allow startups to grow without sacrificing the speed and agility that are their lifeblood. Ultimately, his goal is to both reduce waste in innovation and to keep the startup industry independent and not merely a feeder system for giant media companies and investment banks. While his ideas are solid, the topic long overdue, the writing is almost prohibitively dry and pedantic."
--Publishers Weekly
埃里克在原本只有艺术的领域创建了一门科学。这是一本每位企业家及有志于创新的管理者的必读书。
——马克·安德烈森安德烈森-霍罗威茨风险投资公司、Opsware公司及网景公司联合创始人
企业家及管理者的必读书!除了引人入胜的案例,更包含诸多实践方法,你一定希望自己5年前就知道这些方法。
——丹·西斯《瞬变》及《粘住》作者
莱斯向我们展示如何突破创业期的“重重迷雾”,他提出的方法非常严谨、贴合现实并获得业界公认。《精益创业》将改变我们看待企业家的方式。当创业成功率提高,这本书将比近年来的任何管理图书对振兴全球经济作出的贡献更大!
——汤姆·艾森曼哈佛商学院企业管理学教授
希望每位企业家都阅读《精益创业》,并学以致用。本书是我所见过的提高创业成功率的指南,无出其右者!
——米切尔·卡普尔莲花发展集团创始人
埃里克为Asana公司提出的建议使我们受益匪浅。通过这本书,埃里克将帮助更多企业家解决他们在商业中遇到的各种难题。
——达斯汀·莫斯科维茨Facebook及Asana联合创始人
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