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# Overheard : Comment about start-up/entrepreneurship
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/overheard-comment-about-start-upentrepreneurship/
- Published: 2011-11-05T01:48:29.000Z
- Updated: 2011-11-05T01:48:29.000Z
- Description: Eric Reis‘ defintion of a startup A human institution designed to create something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty In other words, you don’t really need...
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- Tags: Management, OverHeard, Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

[Eric Reis](http://theleanstartup.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org)‘ defintion of a startup

> A human institution designed to create something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty

In other words, you don’t really need to work at a startup or out of a garage to be an entrepreneur. You can do the same thing in a typical corporate setting.

BTW.. check out this very cool conversation between Leo Laporte and Eric at