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

Great condition

Great addition to the self-improvement book collection!

The book is very thorough in conveing to the reader of a step by step guide for creating products.The customer discovery part is viewed by the author as the most important and as such, the book is an exciting read during this phase.Afterwards, the book seems to be a bit dull and overdogmatic.Personally, I think that the book should serve as a general guideline towards assessing the current state of a product and planning it’s future steps, and should not be taken absolutelly ‘ad literam’.

I recommend every person who is looking to start working on his/her business idea to read this book first before anything else. I've started a business a year ago and as any other startup I had very very slow progress and alot of learning to do. Then I found this book ....it has helped me save so much time, it breaks what you need to do into actionable steps. The author recognize the importance and respects the entrepreneur's time by not babbling and talking gibberish like most startup books. Hes like, You need to do customer discovery first and to do that you need to do 1.2.3.4 if you have a physical product and 1.2.3.4 if you have a digital product.

This book is super sturdy. I love that it’s a hardcover. It’s been thrown around in my backpack and has no wear or tear.

Good read

Clean product

Kindle version. The book lays out the 4 steps to a successful startups, though in this manual, only the first two steps are covered in detail. It is a reference book and while you can read from cover to cover, most likely you will need to come back to it and check out certain sections when you're starting your company. I would have wanted the step by step guide for the final 2 steps but given the definition of a startup "temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable profitable business model", I guess the first 2 steps are the most important. Overall, I think this book is really helpful for anyone who wants to found a startup. It is applicable to both technology and product startups.