Steve Blank

Blank says Business Model Generation helps founders answer the business-model question intelligently and precisely.

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Blank presents Value Proposition Design as Osterwalder's follow-on book for getting product/market fit right.

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Blank names Testing Business Ideas in the entrepreneurial management stack section.

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Blank describes Ries's book while discussing Customer Development and Agile implementation.

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Blank lists Horowitz's book as CEO Build-phase reading for the transition from search to company building.

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Blank says Agile understanding is needed for Customer Development and names Beck's book.

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Blank recommends the book for large-company innovation and repeats it in enterprise innovation reading.

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Blank names Talking to Humans in the entrepreneurial management stack section.

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Blank recommends Biodesign for medical-device startups and notes its customer-discovery process.

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Blank recommends Perez's book in the Must Read Books section.

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Blank says he read the Christensen books as a handbook for startups trying to disrupt established companies.

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Blank says he read the Christensen books as a handbook for startups trying to disrupt established companies.

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Blank includes The Innovator's DNA in the Must Read Books section.

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Blank includes Crossing the Chasm in the Must Read Books section.

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Blank lists Inside the Tornado alongside Geoffrey Moore's technology-market books.

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Blank lists Dealing with Darwin alongside Geoffrey Moore's technology-market books.

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Blank includes The Tipping Point in the Must Read Books section.

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Blank includes Blue Ocean Strategy in the Must Read Books section.

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Blank names The Marketing Playbook in his Strategy Books for Startups section.

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Blank names Do More Faster in his Strategy Books for Startups section.

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Blank names Getting Real as web-focused startup reading.

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Blank recommends Wasserman's book in the Strategy Books for Startups section.

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Blank calls the strategy books classics but timeless and explains why this one matters to market-type thinking.

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Blank recommends the book for value propositions and value delivery systems.

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Blank connects Schumpeter's book to creative destruction and entrepreneurship.

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Blank describes it as the first insider view of how a decentralized company works.

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Blank notes Drucker's management-by-objective framing while discussing corporate innovation sources.

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Blank says to read it for the sources of innovation.

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Blank says software-company managers need to read Brooks's book.

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Blank recommends the book for lifetime value, profitable customers, and get/keep/grow thinking.

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Blank lists Davidow's technology-marketing book in the strategy section.

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Blank lists Davidow and Uttal's book with Marketing High Technology.

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Blank lists Competitive Strategy among Porter's strategy standards.

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Blank lists Competitive Advantage among Porter's strategy standards.

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Blank lists On Competition among Porter's strategy standards.

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Blank says startups disrupting regulated markets need to read The Fixer and Regulatory Hacking.

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Blank says startups disrupting regulated markets need to read The Fixer and Regulatory Hacking.

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