Eric Ries

Eric Ries
Venture Advisor, Lessons Learned

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Eric Ries is the author of the blog Lessons Learned. He was the co-founder and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU, his third startup. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups including pbWiki, Smule, 750i and KaChing.

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Eric Ries (Lessons Learned)
High-tech product development projects are notoriously difficult to manage. Many fail outright. Even when the product work as specified, far too often there are no customers willing to purchase it. All of these problems share a common cause: the tremendous waste inherent in an undisciplined approach to imagining, designing, and building new products. Read more.
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Eric Ries (Lessons Learned)
High-tech product development projects are notoriously difficult to manage. Many fail outright. Even when the product work as specified, far too often there are no customers willing to purchase it. All of these problems share a common cause: the tremendous waste inherent in an undisciplined approach to imagining, designing, and building new products. Read more.
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