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The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Steve Blank

Test customer and market assumptions before scaling. Follow four steps from discovery to validation, demand creation, and company building, with the sales evidence each transition requires.

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8 parts, about 28 minutes to read.

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Author
Steve Blank
Parts
8 parts
Reading time
about 28 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. Searching for a business model1 min
  2. The product development trap2 min
  3. The four steps and their loops3 min
  4. Discover before you sell5 min
  5. Customer Validation5 min
  6. Customer Creation4 min
  7. Company Building7 min
  8. The Early Team Behind the Steps1 min

Read it alongside

  • Puts it into practiceThe Lean Startup

    Blank asks startups to validate customer demand rather than count completed products as progress; Ries adds tracking conversion by customer cohort and comparing concurrent product versions, so rising totals do not hide changes that fail to improve customer behavior.

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