“The Mom Test” by Rob Fitzpatrick - How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you. https://a.co/d/8KzUk8b It ended up saving us a lot of time.
I absolutely recommend it.
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#52I assume you're not interested in hearing the obvious ones (zero to one, lean startup, etc., etc.) so I'll recommend two. At the early stages when you're defining your strategy? "Good strategy/bad strategy" by Richard P. Rumelt. "Strategy" is thrown around a whole lot in business, often by somebody who is talking about a goal, as opposed to how to reach it. This book can get a little repetitive but the overarching te…
I read The Messy Middle and thought like the chapter titles were phenomenal, but felt everything in the actual chapters was fluff. Maybe I'll give it another try!
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#53A book that I really want to recommend to anybody in the process of validating product and business ideas:
“The right it” by Alberto Savoia
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#54The Mouse Driver Chronicles
Not totally game changing, but a great story that can help keep you motivated!
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#55The E-Myth is the only business book which ever left a lasting impression on me. It's about "working on your business rather than in it" and systematising everything.
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#56Blue Ocean Strategy by Renée Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim
has not been mentioned here and is an amazing read, and very well regarded by a lot of high profile folks.
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#571. "Lean Startup" (pretty standard) 2. "Spin Selling" (sales) 3. "The Four-Hour Work Week" (not because of the way of life promised in the misleading title, but because of the links to useful Websites, and for motivational reading) 4. "The One Billion Dollar App" (silly title but fantastic book from an actual taxi app product manager - I almost didn't buy it because of the title, thank God I opened it anyway and star…
Spin Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-payoff, or The Spin Selling Fieldbook: Practical Tools, Methods, Exercises and Resources?
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#58Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling Company of One by Paul Jarvis
Start Small, Stay Small is one of the least fluffy books I've ever read, with tons of practical advice. It's unfortunately a bit dated, but I heard he's working on a new one.
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#59Disciplined Entrepreneurship, by Bill Aulet. A very condensed video version is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtWexnfPhKk.
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#60* Crossing the Chasm
* The Mom Test
* The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
* The Cold Start Problem