Successful Strategies for Products that Win
by Steve Blank
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Andrew Chen and Ryan Hoover
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See customer reviews on Amazon →This is a blunt, procedural manual for bringing a product to market: chapters move through customer discovery, hypothesis testing, and building repeatable sales and marketing steps, often presented as checklists and process diagrams. The most useful material is the step-by-step sequence of tests and practical milestones you can apply to avoid building the wrong product. Long procedural passages sacrifice narrative; it's more useful as a reference between meetings than for a straight-through read. Some readers will find the voice brusque rather than conversational.
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The essential book for anyone bringing a product to market, writing a business plan, marketing plan or sales plan. Stepbystep strategy of how to successfully organize sales, marketing and business development for a new product or company. The book offers insight into what makes some startups successful and leaves others selling off their furnitur...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Best Startup Books, Most Recommended Books, and Entrepreneurship.
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