Steve Blank hands a new owner's manual to startup founders

Re:Steve Blank hands a new owner's manual to startup founders by ovi256 on Friday March 30, 2012 @11:20AM (#3776349)

I'm just discovering the lean startup methodology, and I was wondering which book (or other resource) is best for an overview of the methodology, as applied for a small startup, from a very practical point of view.

Start Small Stay Small was very close, but it did not espouse much Customer Development.

As you point out, it's not Eric Ries book. I suspect it's not Steve Blank's Manual, as it's more of a reference. Maybe the Manual has a brief overview as well ? I mean, to use it as a reference, you first need to understand the method and what to look out for.

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Re:Steve Blank hands a new owner's manual to startup founders by davidw on Friday March 30, 2012 @05:16PM (#3778132)

Start Small is not about 'Lean Startups' per se. It's more about making something that works for you, without having too much of an ideology/movement/whatever. Insomuch as he talks about customer development, it's mostly techniques to appraise a potential market.

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Re:Steve Blank hands a new owner's manual to startup founders by Ecio78 on Saturday March 31, 2012 @01:32AM (#3779476)

Rob Walling (author of Start Small Stay Small) also gives away for free a PDF ebook containing many of the stuff that is also present in the book. You just have to register on his blog site http://www.softwarebyrob.com/ and you'll receive a link. Of course doing so you'll be subscribed to his newsletter (but it's part of the customer acquisition "game", no? :-))

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Re:Steve Blank hands a new owner's manual to startup founders by hshah on Friday March 30, 2012 @05:07PM (#3778099)

I'd recommend checking out The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: http://custdev.com - It's a very practical guide to the first part of customer development and complimentary to Steve Blank's book and Eric Ries's Lean Startup Principles. I recommend it to every entrepreneur that I talk to (which ends up being hundreds a year!)

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Re:Steve Blank hands a new owner's manual to startup founders by badclient on Friday March 30, 2012 @11:22AM (#3776359)

I'd start with Nail it, Then Scale It.

Specifically for customer development, I'd check out The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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