One of the best books on starting a startup I have ever read. I have bought and read both Eric Ries' The Lean Startup and Steve Blank's The Startup Owner's Manual and while they were good books, it felt like they didn't provide much advice on how to bootstrap a startup.Start Small, Stay Small, on the other hand, is jam-packed with actionable advice for bootstrappers. If you want to know how to start a startup without venture capital, start with this book.(The only reason I'm not giving it five stars is that a lot of the content is available on Rob Walling's blog. If you're a long-time reader of his, maybe you will not get as much value out of the book. However, I would still say it's worth the price of purchase  just to have all this advice collected in one place. )