This is an open study group for Steve Blank's and Bob Dorf's book "The Startup Owner's Manual."
Sign-up for the email group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/startup-owners-manual-study-group
Approaches you could take to the study group
- If you simply want to learn the terrain of the book, so you could get what you need when you need it in the future, you could follow the pace of one chapter a week. We start on April 23 and move to a new chapter every Monday. But that's not rigid. It's like a caravan. There's a general direction and a general pace, but you could hang around longer in a town if you feel like it. People can join anytime at any part of the trail.
- If you want to master Customer Development, it is best to apply what you read. This would depend on what phase your start-up is in. Read the "How to Read this Book" section for guidance on this and discuss with the group whatever you need to discuss.
- If you just want to have a discussion on anything related to the book, just shoot an email to startup-owners-manual-study-group@googlegroups.com!
Some questions that could guide your reading and sharing
- What will I START doing because of this idea?
- What will I STOP doing because of this idea?
List of typos
(help in improving future versions of the book!)
- P270 3rd line from the bottom "bak" instead of "back"
Some suggestions to improve the next versions of the book
- Usability: put the chapter numbers on each page to make it easy to scan and find the chapter you want.
Comments (2)
kahlil@... said
at 3:20 am on Apr 21, 2012
I think you're right. For the purpose of learning the book as a skill, you need to apply what you read. I think this is like learning how to bike more than learning the History of Ancient Greece.
For the purpose of knowing the terrain of the book so that you know where to go when you need to, I think you can attack it from any angle. 1-12 is probably the easiest way.
agilous said
at 10:59 am on Apr 20, 2012
Having gone through a portion of this book, and most notably the "How to Read This Book" chapter, it seems that it does not lend itself to a linear "one chapter a week" study group, unless perhaps if there are several groups organized around the cases outlined in the "Paths Through This Book" section. Still, I think everyone's situation and needs will be different making group focus difficult to maintain.
Nonetheless, good luck to all and I'll be interested to follow the progress of the study group on the Google mailing list.
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