I love his definition of a startup: "startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.". Solid, concrete ad

I love his definition of a startup: "startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.". Solid, concrete advice in this book - advice you can disagree with, not just apple pie advice. Compare "Four Steps" to "do more faster", another highly recommended startup book. First, both books have off-putting titles. I'm much more likely to buy a book called "The Customer Development Model" than anything that sounds like it's marketed to the naive or flaky: "epiphany?", "do more faster?". Can we please stay pragmatic and grounded? Apart from that, the books are worlds apart. "Four Steps" is pragmatic and grounded. The "do more faster" book starts with an essay by Tim Ferriss, the author of "The 4-hour workweek." As long as we're talking about Steve Blank, here's a couple of other books that I've read and liked because of things I've read on his blog/book: * Business Model Generation, by Osterwalder & Pigneur * Crystal Fire, by Riordan & Hoddeson * A Radar History of World War II, by Brown The last two book because of his "secret history of silicon valley" posts.