The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Starting a tech company or launching a new product? Read this. Need to get in the general entrepenureal spirit, eh. Need non tech industry advice, look elsewhere.

As someone who has spent years building many different software products, this book clarifies many of the pain points of software development and provides a common sense path for you to follow. If you are building software as a developer or an entrepreneur and you have not read this book, you are wrong!

Absolutely fantastic read. I work in biz dev of a large corporation and I've put many of these ideas into action with impressive results. Read here: complete revitalization of a company acquired in distress in under 5 months. My relations have used it in start ups with similar success. It's a quick, enjoyable, and easy to relate to read. A lot of people who knocked their reviews down to 3 or 4 starts claimed that they didn't like the writing style and didn't know exactly how to implement his ideas. Here's the answer: as an English major I found his writing very clear, concise, and well organized. The flow was excellent and in no way confusing. If you don't want to feel like you're being lectured, buy a fiction novel, not a book on how to run your company like IMVU. As for implementation, think outside the box. If you can't even apply concepts in an out-of-context way you probably have more to worry about business-wise than just how to implement principles. The Triangle Startup Factory, a successful start up director in one of the fastest growing areas in the country, recommends this book to the new companies they onboard. Companies that are receiving millions from investors.