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The Lean Startup

Eric Ries · 2011 · 336 pages

4 people have this book on the record — 2 of 4 verdicts positive. The dissent stays on the page.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Brad Feld loved it
Eric Ries wrote The Lean Startup in 2011 and changed how a generation of founders thought about building companies.

on feld.com · 20 Apr 2026

Jason Evanish disliked it affiliate
If you actually want to learn how to actually BE a lean startup or how to actually do it, this book will not help you. If you want to learn the high level concepts only then this is a great book. The other books I have above I encourage you to read before this one if you want to truly learn and implement lean practices. 7. On the Shortness of Life by Seneca (3.13.18)

on jasonevanish.com · 28 Oct 2020

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.