Lean Startup: The Core Principles
Lean Startup: how to design an innovative Internet product or service

The Lean Startup was defined in 2008 by Eric Ries , a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and founder of IMVU.

It was while studying the manufacturing industry—which gave rise to the vast majority of modern management theories—that Eric Ries became interested in the "Lean" production management method, which was developed in the 1980s by the automaker Toyota.

Rooted in the Toyota Production System, the Lean...