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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
by ovi256 15y ago
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.
- badclient 15y agoI'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.
- hshah 15y agoI'd recommend checking out The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: http://custdev.com 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!)
- davidw 15y agoStart 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.
- Ecio78 15y agoRob 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/ 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? :-))