Traction
How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
by Gabriel Weinberg
Recommended by Seth Godin and Andrew Warner
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Growth Hacking, Best Startup Books, and Best Business Books.
Most startups end in failure.Almost every failed startup has a product. What failed startups don't have are enough customers.Founders and employees fail to spend time thinking about (and working on) traction in the same way they work on building a product. This shortsighted approach has startups trying random tactics some ads, a blog post or two ...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Growth Hacking, Best Startup Books, and Best Business Books.
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Consider The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. Recommended by 60 sources.
“A blunt, conversational tour through the worst parts of building a company. Horowitz shares personal stories from his own startup failures and recoveries, offering practical wisdom on layoffs, pivots, CEO loneliness, and managing when times are bad. The value is in the honest, experience-based insight you won't get from business school. The limitation is its narrow focus on venture-backed tech startups—if you're not in that world, some advice may feel irrelevant. Reads like a wise mentor telling you what nobody else will.”
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