Ask PG: What do you think of The Lean Startup?

Why not just read the book? It's $10.99 on Kindle, or free from your local library, and will take a weekend to read at most. You're bound to get a few good nuggets out of it. Also a relevant related resource is the 'How to Build a Startup' course on Udacity by Steve Blank. (www.udacity.com/course/ep245) Good stuff! On the other hand, rephrasing the question away from "Is it worth reading..." it would be great to hear feedback as to what parts are most relevant and/or differences of opinion.

It's pretty much worth reading. It teaches you the lean approach and how you can profit by applying it to your projects, startup and other things in life, why not. I'm right now in a lean startup and it went much better than the others non-lean.

The entire lean concept is pretty simple, so if you've read a few posts or essays online, then you already have the meat of it.

If you want a good story book where he extrapolates lots of examples, go ahead and pick it up.