Yesterday, Eric Ries, the author of The Lean Startup and the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned, stopped by the SurveyMonkey office to chat with us about how his experiences working in startups–most notably as the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of IMVU–inspired him to create the Lean Startup methodology.
Check out the following video to find out what Ries thinks are the three most important things a startup team should know, the last survey he created, and of course, his favorite kind of monkey.
Have you adopted the Lean Startup methodology in your startup? Tell us about it in the comments section below.



patty, Oct 28, 2011
I like the magic wand question–use it all the time and you get lots of info about questions you didn’t think to ask
Bennett P, Oct 28, 2011
Patty – Yes! We did too. Thanks for your comment.
apandsit, Oct 30, 2011
thats good thanks admin