Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad Course is Live

http://blog.udacity.com/2012/09/steve-blanks-lean-launchpad-course.html

by ivoflipse • 14 years ago

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ojbyrne2• 14 years ago

It's been live since last weekend, the announcement seemed to be late. It's very good so far (I've watched the first week's lectures). Steve is even better as a speaker/teacher than as a writer.

Kaedon• 14 years ago

Have you had experience with his book? I'm looking to see if I should consider picking that up or The Lean Startup.

graeme• 14 years ago

The Startup Owner's manual is a very thorough book. It's meant to be used. Much more practical than Lean Startup in my opinion, though a tougher read.

The Lean Startup is a good high level overview of the underlying concept. I found it a bit overly focussed on launching "lean startups" within big companies. This may have been to boost consulting. Whatever the reason, it made the book less relevant to my experience.

But the Lean Startup is a quick, easy read, and you will get some actionable knowledge out of it if you're not already familiar with the ideas.

If you already know the concept, but want to put it into practice, go with Steve Blank's book.

ojbyrne2• 14 years ago

I have bought the book and am reading along. I haven't really read enough to form an opinion.

One minor irritant so far - there are readings from two other books, which I'll probably buy, but not expect we're needed. The Lean Startup is one of them.

davidw3• 14 years ago

If you're not familiar with the concept at all, "The Lean Startup" isn't bad. Otherwise, it's fairly fluffy in terms of content, and you'd be better off with something like:

Nail Then Scale It: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0055D7O1U/?tag=dedasys-20

I've heard good things about this too: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006UKFFE0/?tag=dedasys-20 - if anyone wants to comment on how it compares to "Nail It".

I've also got Steve Blank's book, but haven't read much of it yet. I'm signed up for the course though, and agree that he seems like a good speaker, although I haven't had much time for it yet.

msolujic• 14 years ago

yes, but Steve sent email only 10 hours ago ;) enjoy it

blrgeek• 14 years ago

Wondering whether this is better or to go whole hog on 30x500. 30x500 seems to be much more likely to result in something - even though it costs 2500$.

lfittl• 14 years ago

The big benefit of 30x500 that I've seen is the peer-group through the very active mailinglist.

Also a lot of good marketing/copywriting advice and feedback that you'd otherwise not get.

Whether you'd like to spend the money is another question of course.

davidw3• 14 years ago

Rob Walling & company have a startup course thing too: http://www.micropreneur.com/

I like his writing on startups a lot, but I haven't paid for it or tried the course... nor do I think I would spend money for something like that. I'd rather participate in communities like this one that are free and open.

I think I'd go for Steve Blank's course first, before shelling out that much money for something.

bjonathan• 14 years ago

This blogpost is painful :

1) no link to the course,

2) no link to the Udacity homepage,

3) no mention of the price or if it's free.

casca• 14 years ago

1) http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/ep245/CourseRev/1

2) http://www.udacity.com/

3) The course is free

I had to look these all up myself so agree that it's a poor blogpost.

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