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Steve Blank

    Cet auteur a défié les attentes, traçant un parcours allant de la réparation d'avions de chasse en Thaïlande et de travaux de renseignement à celui de figure centrale de l'essor de la Silicon Valley. Après une carrière distinguée à la tête de huit entreprises de haute technologie, il s'est tourné vers le monde universitaire. Il y a développé le modèle influent du "Customer Development", devenu la pierre angulaire de son enseignement sur l'entrepreneuriat dans des universités prestigieuses. Ses explorations des conditions uniques qui ont favorisé le succès de la Silicon Valley l'ont conduit à donner des conférences acclamées. Au-delà de ses activités entrepreneuriales et littéraires, il s'est consacré à la défense de l'environnement, siégeant notamment à la California Coastal Commission et aux conseils d'Audubon.

    The Four Steps to the Epiphany
    The startup owner's manual. The Step-by-step guide for building a great company
    • The Four Steps to the Epiphany

      • 370pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      The bestselling classic that launched 10,000 startups and new corporate ventures - The Four Steps to the Epiphany is one of the most influential and practical business books of all time. The Four Steps to the Epiphany launched the Lean Startup approach to new ventures. It was the first book to offer that startups are not smaller versions of large companies and that new ventures are different than existing ones. Startups search for business models while existing companies execute them. The book offers the practical and proven four-step Customer Development process for search and offers insight into what makes some startups successful and leaves others selling off their furniture. Rather than blindly execute a plan, The Four Steps helps uncover flaws in product and business plans and correct them before they become costly. Rapid iteration, customer feedback, testing your assumptions are all explained in this book. Packed with concrete examples of what to do, how to do it and when to do it, the book will leave you with new skills to organize sales, marketing and your business for success. If your organization is starting a new venture, and you're thinking how to successfully organize sales, marketing and business development you need The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Essential reading for anyone starting something new.

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    • "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

      The startup owner's manual. The Step-by-step guide for building a great company2012
      4,1