The startup owner's manual. Vol. 1 : the step-by-step guide for building a great company / Steve Blank and Bob Dorf.

"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"-- Back cover.

"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"-- From publisher's description.