Three Engines of Growth for Startups

Maggie Sun
4 min readFeb 4, 2022

In the illuminating book of “The Lean Startup,” the author Eric Ries put forth three engines of growth for startups, each designed to give companies a small set of pertinent metrics to focus on in order to gain validated learning and long-term growth.

1. The Sticky Engine of Growth

Businesses using the sticky engine of growth rely on having a high customer retention rate…

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Maggie Sun

MBA, certified agile coach and experienced strategy analyst, specializing in business agility, agile leadership, Beyond Budgeting, and general management.