The Startup Owner's Manual

The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

By: Steve Blank, Bob Dorf

Narrated by: Matthew Boston

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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2020 Steve Blank (P)2020 Gildan Media

let's start up with this one

i can't appreciate it enough to express my feelings for the book! awesome. like the narrative says, it seems like to be a manual for all startup entrepreneurs.

i majored in MBA program but until mow, i did not meet with what was necessary for me like this.

i strongly recommend this title of book for every one who dreams start his business for himself to make something different from others to succeed.

good luck 👍

thanks 😊
God bless you all

Great info!!!

This guide is very well put together. I love the fact that there is so much information that is applicable to today’s start up companies. Great read.

No BS in this one! Perfect!

Hard to read, but remember - this is a manual full of canvas to use. It will not be a start-up "mentality / go get it" BS book. I will use all the info from this book during my new company creation.

I love how in-depth he goes.

I love how in-depth he goes, it is not your typical book, it's intricate, you blink and you miss out on a lot of information. Definitely not a "one weekend read" type of book, you have to take your time with it and keep reffering back to it because there is no way you can absorb all he was saying in a couple of days or weeks!

It really gives you tips very helpful

Instructive and very helpful. But it is narrated like an instruction manual instead of a book. Despite that, it is a great read

Clear Instruction

This book is full of helpful and useful information. As a startup owner I've struggled to find information that applies to my particular field. This book did a great job of showing different tactics for running and growing a start up in any field including new industries.

I would consider this book as a great starting point for what you should plan for or think about when starting your business.

Business Education Extraordinaire

Money, Banking, Finance and Accounting is both my educational and professional background. This book taught me so much more. Iterative is my new key word. The more it explains let the reader know they need to know more. The iteration processes has given me a better tool to productivity that will direct me to the best track. Thanks for the book and the Audible,

Bad narration

I didn’t like the narration. Feels like autogenerated voice. Very monotone and difficult to follow

Nothing to learn from this book

I plowed through 3 hours 17 minutes before switching it off. Blank writes for large, well-funded startups with many employees that have a new technology and are trying to find customers who'll buy the technology. I started my company thirty years ago to solve the biggest problem in my life. I avoided new technology and built my products with established technologies. I kept expenses down. I'm not rich but I've seen many better-funded competitors come and go. Blank's advice is obvious and repeats himself to make a book out of basic advice.

Good content, poor execution

The information in this book is good, but I don’t think an audiobook is the best format. If possible, I suggest reading along with a hard copy if you’re going to listen. The visual format helps.

The narration is bad. His cadence is sporadic, clunky, and painfully slow! I listened at 1.6x for a better flow.