Book 1: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.

Kicking off this book tour of sorts is The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. A book, I expect, about and codifying the growing trend of leaner, smarter and perhaps more importantly, agile startups.

I recall waiting patiently for this book to finally be available on Amazon's UK website, even going so far as watching (or at least beginning to) a live stream event at The NDRC while Barack Obama was visiting Ireland. The live streamed event turned out (to my estimation at least) to be little more than a thinly veneered advertisement for this book, at no fault of The NDRC, but leaving early I felt tricked and certainly not inspired.

In any case, the book ended up unceremoniously on my to-do pile along with the rest, so time to find out if it was worth the wait.

I hope to keep this blog somewhat regularly updated on how I feel about these books as I go through them, perhaps one or two updates per book would suffice, maybe a summary of my opinion at the end also, I'm not sure just yet. I do plan on taking notes while reading so perhaps I can share some of those.