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Books on Starting a Profitable SaaS Business

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Re: Books on Starting a Profitable SaaS Business

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Post by scrollaway »

I used to read these types of books (including the most popular of the bunch listed here) years ago. I had this idea that if I just kept reading this stuff, I would eventually just "get it". (I never did. I "got it" much faster by reading individual comments from select people, and trying things out by myself)

The thing is, it seems to me that many of these books are just extremely information-sparse. Very very lengthened ways of making a small set of points. And because of that, I don't particularly remember the lessons learned from the lot.

200 pages to tell you to talk to your customers? 300 pages to explain that you should focus on your core business and not get sidetracked?

Here's a challenge to those who have read books in that list. Pick one you've found useful, and tell me how it changed you. Then look at your comment and decide whether the book could have just made that same point in that many words.

Re: Books on Starting a Profitable SaaS Business

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Post by dizzydes »

scrollaway wrote: post #4

I used to read these types of books (including the most popular of the bunch listed here) years ago. I had this idea that if I just kept reading this stuff, I would eventually just "get it". (I never did. I "got it" much faster by reading individual comments from select people, and trying things out by myself) The thing is, it seems to me that many of these books are just extremely information-sparse. Very very lengt…

This.

Maybe reading a few on Blinkist initially but all one really needs:

- is repeatedly trying (even on a side project)

- first principles thinking/common sense

Why? Because:

- all those books are repetitive

- we learn faster by doing

- problems a given project faces at a given time are highly situational

Re: Books on Starting a Profitable SaaS Business

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Post by TheAceOfHearts »

scrollaway wrote: post #4

I used to read these types of books (including the most popular of the bunch listed here) years ago. I had this idea that if I just kept reading this stuff, I would eventually just "get it". (I never did. I "got it" much faster by reading individual comments from select people, and trying things out by myself) The thing is, it seems to me that many of these books are just extremely information-sparse. Very very lengt…

There's no way 20 books are necessary. You can achieve near expertise in many domains with 2 or 3 really good books, what do the remaining 17 add?

Re: Books on Starting a Profitable SaaS Business

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Post by melx »

scrollaway wrote: post #4

I used to read these types of books (including the most popular of the bunch listed here) years ago. I had this idea that if I just kept reading this stuff, I would eventually just "get it". (I never did. I "got it" much faster by reading individual comments from select people, and trying things out by myself) The thing is, it seems to me that many of these books are just extremely information-sparse. Very very lengt…

Oh cheers! I read The Lean Startup and due to my leaky memory I remember nothing! But it's as you say: 200 pages to tell "iterate more often on product updates". Hell yeah.
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