Eric Ries

Do You Have The 3 Qualities Marc Andreessen Wants In A Founder?

He cofounded Netscape, then helped launch one of Silicon Valley’s premier firms. Now Marc Andreessen reveals what he likes in leaders.

Blue-Chip Entrepreneurs Share Their Best Empire-Building Tips

Not everyone can have Tim Ferriss or Eric Ries as a personal mentor–which is why we’re giving you their 10 most useful tips for building uber-successful businesses.

The 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself

In interviewing some of the biggest innovation experts, including Clayton Christensen and Eric Ries, Warren Berger found that asking the right questions can be more challenging than finding answers.

Eric Ries On How To Make Any Company Move Like A Lean Startup

“Corporations are ruled by the systems that you create,” Lean Startup author Eric Ries tells Fast Company. Whether your team’s 100 or 100,000, here’s how to make a system that’s entrepreneurial by process, not by slogan.

Entrepreneurs Are Everywhere. Eric Ries Knows What They Have In Common

If you think the ramen-slurping garage dwellers you see in the movies are what starting a business is really like, then you need to watch this video.

How Eric Ries Coined “The Pivot” And What Your Business Can Learn From It

It’s only appropriate that Eric Ries is the subject of the first video for Fast Company’s new series: The Pivot. He’s the author of a best-selling book, “The Lean Startup,” and the man who made the term “pivot” part of the business vernacular.

Eric Ries: 10 Classic Strategies For A Fast, User-Focused Company Reboot

Eric Ries catalogues 10 flavors of pivot that startups can use to revive their fortunes. But they’re applicable to businesses both new and old.

To Get To The Root Of A Hard Problem, Just Ask “Why” Five Times

In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries argues that returning to the question of why five times cuts to the quick of a problem.

To Get To The Root Of A Hard Problem, Just Ask “Why” Five Times

In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries argues that returning to the question of why five times cuts to the quick of a problem.

A Small Business Owner’s Guide To Innovating Like The Pros

Eric Ries Is A Lean Startup Machine

There’s a whole industry devoted to promulgating the myth that all an entrepreneur needs is perseverance, creative genius, and hard work. Ries learned the hard way this isn’t true.