The Startup Owners Manual, Steve Blank
The Startup Owners Manual, Steve Blank
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The Startup Owner's Manual
The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

Author: Steve Blank, Bob Dorf

Narrator: Matthew Boston

Unabridged: 12 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 06/23/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book for detailed, step-by-step instructions on building successful, scalable, profitable startups. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process outlined in the book, and it's taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and more than 100 other leading universities worldwide. Why?

The Startup Owner's Manual guides you, step-by-step, as you put the Customer Development process to work. This method was created by renowned Silicon Valley startup expert Steve Blank, cocreator with Eric Ries of the "Lean Startup" movement and tested and refined by him for more than a decade. This guide will help you:

● Avoid the nine deadly sins that destroy startups' chances for success

● Use the Customer Development method to bring your business idea to life

● Incorporate the Business Model Canvas as the organizing principle for startup hypotheses

● Identify your customers and determine how to "get, keep and grow" customers' profitably

● Compute how you'll drive your startup to repeatable, scalable profits.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Xeon on June 02, 2023

The Lean Startup put to practice. Wonderfully practical......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on December 03, 2014

This is the best business book I have read till date. It effortlessly dismantles the bullshit idea of a good entrepreneur as a modern day Indiana Jones hacking their way through a jungle of self-doubt armed only with an iron clad will and a penchant for making the right decisions at the right time. T......more

Goodreads review by Tadas on December 31, 2016

OMC, boring as heaven, real life has no "step by step instructions". Like from Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days: "Second system may be years late and fixes none of the first system problems."......more

Goodreads review by Dustin on February 17, 2021

This would be a great book for people in the very beginning phases of their business. I do think there are other books out there that are better though for that stage. If you are already somewhat established and have a proven product and market, I would look elsewhere.......more

Goodreads review by Tom on December 25, 2012

Blank, Steven Gary, and Bob Dorf (2012), The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step-Guide for Building a Great Company, K and S Ranch, Inc. K&S Publishing Division. This is a brilliant book about a new approach for entrepreneurs to build lasting companies. It includes a four-stage model Steve Blan......more