Lean Startup
An annotated collection of 3 books on lean startup, spanning 2005 to 2013. Featuring works by Steve Blank, Eric Ries, Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
The book that coined the discipline of customer development and seeded everything "lean startup" later systematised. Blank's claim is that startups fail not because of bad products but because they sell to the wrong cust…
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Ries popularised a vocabulary — MVP, pivot, validated learning, build-measure-learn — that became the lingua franca of startups in the 2010s. Strip away the evangelism and the argument is tight: when uncertainty is high,…
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
Croll and Yoskovitz wrote the operational companion to Ries's theoretical argument in The Lean Startup. Where Ries argues that validated learning is the right unit of progress, Croll and Yoskovitz tell you which numbers…