The Startup Owner's Manual
The StepByStep Guide for Building a Great Company
by Steve Blank
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Recommended by 3 notable people, including Sophie Bakalar and Matej Latin
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Entrepreneurship, Best Startup Books, and Entrepreneur.
More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book for detailed, stepbystep 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 universi...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Entrepreneurship, Best Startup Books, and Entrepreneur.
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