12 Facts About Eric Ries

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Eric Ries was born on September 22,1978 and is an American entrepreneur, blogger, and author of The Lean Startup, a book on the lean startup movement.

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Eric Ries is the author of The Startup Way, a book on modern entrepreneurial management.

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Eric Ries took a leave of absence to pursue Catalyst Recruiting, but the company soon folded.

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In 2004, Eric Ries left to join one of the founders of There.

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Eric Ries copyedited an early version of Blank's book on customer development, The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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In 2008 after a new CEO joined IMVU, Eric Ries stepped down as CTO, remaining as a board observer.

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In 2008, Eric Ries began to document the lean startup methodology on his blog with a post titled "The lean startup".

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8.

Eric Ries was invited to speak at the Web 2.0 Expo by Tim O'Reilly, and was offered a position as entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School.

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Eric Ries began to devote all of his time to the lean startup movement, and held conferences, gave talks, wrote blog entries, and served as an advisor to companies.

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Sales of The Startup Way were not as strong as Eric Ries' preceding book The Lean Startup.

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In 2015, Eric Ries began organizing The Long-Term Stock Exchange, which is building a new US stock exchange that aims to align the interests of companies and long-term investors and improve the public company experience.

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Eric Ries had proposed the idea of the LTSE in his book The Lean Startup.