The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company - Softcover

Blank, Steve; Dorf, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984999302 ISBN 13: 9780984999309

Publisher: K & S Ranch, 2012

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, acknowledged catalyst of the "Lean Startup" movement, and tested and refined by him for more than a decade. 

This 608-page how-to guide includes over 100 charts, graphs, and diagrams, plus 77 valuable checklists that guide you as you drive your company toward profitability.  It will help you:
·        Avoid the 9 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.

 

About this title

About the Author

About Steve Blank
Steve Blank is a driving force in innovation, helping to radically reshape how startups are built and how entrepreneurship is taught. His new Startup Owner's Manual is his latest addition for entrepreneurial practitioners. Steve created the Customer Development methodology that spawned the Lean Startup movement. He teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley and Columbia. His blog, steveblank.com, is "must" reading among entrepreneurs. In 2011, Steve created the Lean LaunchPad, a hands-on class using Customer Development to train students as well as elite teams of scientists and engineers selected and funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Steve arrived in Silicon Valley in 1978, as boom times began, joining his first of eight startups. After 21 years the results were two deep craters, several "base hits," one massive "dot-com bubble" home run, and immense experiential learning that resulted his first break-through book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany.
 
About Bob Dorf
Bob Dorf is a serial entrepreneur, founding his first success at age 22 and, since then, six more--"two homeruns, two base hits, and three great tax losses," as he puts it. He's advised and/or invested in a score more startups since. Dorf is often called the "midwife of Customer Development," having critiqued early drafts of The Four Steps to the Epiphany; he and Steve have been friends and colleagues ever since. Entrepreneurial from his teens, Bob received his last W-2 almost 40 years ago, when he quit his editor's job at New York's WINS Radio to launch his first successful startup. When he's not running K&S Ranch Consulting with Steve, Dorf teaches "Introduction to Venturing," on Customer Development and getting startups right, as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School.

From the Back Cover

The Startup Owner's Manual is what it says : a comprehensive, step-by step guide to getting startups right. It walks entrepreneurs through the Customer Development process that gets them out of the building, where customers live, to develop winning products customers will buy.

Edition details

• Publisher: K & S Ranch
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984999302
• ISBN 13: 9780984999309
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 571