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9 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2000
Eric Ries dropped out of Yale during the dot-com bubble to run a startup from his dorm room, and later returned to finish his degree after it failed.
“So, I dropped out of school and I did a startup from my dorm room, which could have, would have, should have been Facebook”
2011
Eric Ries wrote the book The Lean Startup, published in 2011.
“Listeners, you may know Eric's name from his popular 2011 book, The Lean Startup.”
2020
Eric Ries said LTSE expected to begin operations in 2020.
“So anyway, to make a long story short, we should begin operations in 2020.”
Undated
Eric Ries says There.com, the virtual-world startup he joined, raised $50 million before it had customers.
“the joke of there.com is that it raised $50 million with no customers”
Undated
After leaving There.com, Eric Ries co-founded IMVU, and Steve Blank was one of its investors.
“So you leave there, as it's all imploding around you, and you start another company, IMVU, and one of your investors is Steve Blank.”
Undated
Eric Ries told companies that IMVU shipped software to production about 40 times a day on average.
“And I would say, we ship software to production 40 times a day on average.”
Undated
Eric Ries began blogging anonymously under the name Startup Lessons Learned.
“It was called Startup Lessons Learned in the passive voice, not by anybody.”
Undated
Dave McClure, Sean Ellis and Andrew Chen each contacted Eric Ries within a month of his starting to blog, after noticing him in their referrer logs.
“Dave McClure, Sean Ellis, and Andrew Chen all called me within a month of my starting to blog to be like, what's up?”
Undated
Eric Ries says investors who want to trade millions of shares must go through an investment bank to engineer a block trade, which is expensive and difficult.
“You got to go to a big investment bank and you got to engineer a block trade.”
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