Acclaim for THE LEAN STARTUP

development.html. Steve also maintains an active and excellent
blog at http://steveblank.com/
Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits have created a short but
excellent book called The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer
Development, which provides a gentle introduction to the topic.
You can buy it here: http://custdev.com or read my review here:
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2010/07/entrepreneursguide-to-customer.html
When I rst began blogging about entrepreneurship, it was not
nearly as common an occupation as it is now. Very few bloggers
were actively working on new ideas about entrepreneurship, and
together we debated and refined these ideas online.
Dave McClure, founder of the venture rm 500 Startups, writes a
blog at http://500hats.typepad.com/. 500 Startups has an excellent
blog as well: http://blog.500startups.com/. Dave’s “Startup Metrics
for Pirates” presentation laid out a framework for thinking about
and measuring online services that greatly inuenced the concept of
“engines of growth.” You can see the original presentation here:
http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2008/09/startup-metri-
2.html as well as my original reaction here:
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/09/three-drivers-ofgrowth-for-your.html
Sean Ellis writes the Startup Marketing Blog, which has been
inuential in my thinking about how to integrate marketing into
startups: http://startup-marketing.com/
Andrew Chen’s blog Futuristic Play is one of the best sources for
thoughts on viral marketing, startup metrics, and design:
http://andrewchenblog.com/
Babak Nivi writes the excellent blog Venture Hacks and was an
early Lean Startup evangelist: http://venturehacks.com/. He’s since
gone on to create Angel List, which matches startups and investors
around the world: http://angel.co/
Other fantastic Lean Startup blogs include: