#24 in the ranking · business · 2011
The Lean Startup
The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries, published in 2011, is cited by 207 people in conversations on Hacker News and TabNews. It shows up in 17 of the 20 years, from 2009 to 2025, with the most mentions in 2011. People who cite it also cite Zero to One, The Four Steps to the Epiphany and The Pragmatic Programmer.
Year by year
Peak: 38 mentions in 2011
Mentions per year: 2007: 0; 2008: 0; 2009: 1; 2010: 8; 2011: 38; 2012: 25; 2013: 27; 2014: 10; 2015: 12; 2016: 21; 2017: 13; 2018: 17; 2019: 11; 2020: 14; 2021: 7; 2022: 13; 2023: 6; 2024: 9; 2025: 3; 2026: 0.
Where it’s cited
What people write
From a text search; it doesn’t yet tell recommending apart from just mentioning.
I would recommend The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.
Hacker News · 2024 · in “Ask HN: Must-Read Books for Startups?” · see comment ↗
I asked some UX peeps what books they recommended and I purchased 2 and never read a single page (they were The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and Sprint by Google Ventures).
Hacker News · 2018 · in “Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?” · see comment ↗
My recent favorites: Jobs, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, High Output Management, Innovator's Dilemma, Lean Startup, On The Shortness Of Life, How Google Works, Zero To One, Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Power of Habit,…
Hacker News · 2016 · in “Ask HN: Book Recommendations?” · see comment ↗
recomendação de livro o livro startup enxuta fala sobre empreendimento e como desenvolver uma empresa usando os MVPs
TabNews · 2022 · see comment ↗