Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
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.
The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.
Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs—in companies of all sizes—a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it’s too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.

这是一个讲述三个阶层不同性格不同的女人为金钱、家庭、地位共同淘金的故事。
留学生卢珍溪（姚晨 饰）在美国卖假包被驱逐回国，商场精英文清（郝蕾 饰）遭遇小三插足，灰姑娘顾巧音（唐嫣 饰）家庭贫寒只想嫁个有钱人。她们从一开始的死对头变成好闺蜜，并在事业导师孟晓骏（郭富城 饰）和卢珍溪的发小俊成(李晨 饰)的支持下，成为追求财富、爱情和地位的合伙人。她们短时间内取得巨大成功。不过好景不长，公司在市场激烈竞争下出现严重问题，陷入困局，同时三人的关系也出现破裂。面对困境，卢珍溪承受严峻考验的同时，为梦想和合伙人走出了坚定的一步……

本·霍洛维茨，硅谷顶级投资人，与网景之父马克·安德森联手合作18年，有着丰富的创业和管理经验。2009年创立风险投资公司A16Z，被外媒誉为“硅谷最牛的50个天使投资人”之一，先后在初期投资了Facebook、Twitter、Groupon、Skype，是诸多硅谷新贵的创业导师。
在《创业维艰》中，本·霍洛维茨从自己的创业经历讲起，以自己在硅谷近20余年的创业、管理和投资经验，对创业公司（尤其是互联网技术公司）的创立、经营、人才选拔、企业文化、销售、CEO与董事会的关系等方方面面，毫无保留地奉上自己的经验之谈。他还谈到了与比尔·坎贝尔、安迪·拉切列夫、迈克尔·奥维茨等硅谷顶级CEO和投资人的交往经历，从他们身上学到的宝贵经验，以及他和马克·安德森这对绝佳拍档为何能够一起奋斗18年还能合作得这么好。
大多数创业书所说的都是如何做正确的事，不把事情搞砸，而本·霍洛维茨还会告诉你：当事情已经搞砸时，你该怎么办。