Bartley Sharkey's Reviews > The Lean Startup

For someone who finishes his book with the ideology of not wasting people's time, Ries repeats himself so frequently and fluffs this book out with such an amount of drivel that I have a hard time believing he's the right person to be giving advice about efficiency. From about 50% of the way through this book I just wanted it to end, betrayed by my own stubbornness to finish books that I start. As such it was quite painful to get through and the main takeaway is not to read another book by Ries. Although there are numerous examples of original thought, his style of writing is somehow juvenile and he takes the opportunity to self-promote far too often.

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