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Books like Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
The best books like Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You are The Automatic Customer, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, and The E-Myth Revisited. Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrillow is about business systems, entrepreneurship, exit strategy. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Automatic Customer
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John Warrillow · Business
The Automatic Customer is John Warrillow's argument for why recurring revenue is the most valuable form of revenue a business can generate, and a practical guide to building subscription models into businesses that don't currently have them.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
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Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
Gino Wickman · Business
Traction introduces the Entrepreneurial Operating System, a practical framework for running a small to mid-sized business with more clarity, accountability, and traction.
Shares entrepreneurship and operations with Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You.
Read the summary → - The E-Myth Revisited
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Michael E. Gerber · Business
The E-Myth Revisited is Michael Gerber's diagnosis of why most small businesses fail — not because their owners lack technical skill, but because they confuse being good at a craft with knowing how to run a business.
Shares entrepreneurship and operations with Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You.
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- Good to Great
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Jim Collins · Business
Good to Great is Jim Collins's attempt to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some good companies make the leap to sustained greatness while most don't?
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Free Time
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Jenny Blake · Business
Free Time is Jenny Blake's argument that the goal for entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and small business owners shouldn't be hustle-driven growth but the systematic removal of yourself as the bottleneck.
Shares business systems and entrepreneurship with Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You.
Read the summary → - Rework
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Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · Business
Rework is Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson's deliberately provocative argument against most conventional wisdom about building a business.
Shares entrepreneurship and operations with Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You.
Read the summary → - Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't
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Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't
Verne Harnish · Business
Scaling Up is Verne Harnish's update to his earlier Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, substantially revised and expanded to cover the full range of challenges a company faces as it grows from a small entrepreneurial team to a scaled organization.
Shares entrepreneurship and operations with Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You.
Read the summary → - The E-Myth Enterprise
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Michael E. Gerber · Business
The E-Myth Enterprise is Michael Gerber's follow-up to The E-Myth Revisited, and it extends his argument about why small businesses fail into the broader question of what it takes to build what he calls a "World Class Company." Where The E-Myth Revisited focused on the technician-manager-entrepreneur split and the importance of working on the business rather than in it, The E-Myth Enterprise focuses on the enterprise as an idea — as a system for creating value that transcends the founder's personal involvement.
Shares business systems and entrepreneurship with Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You.
Read the summary → - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone · Business
The Everything Store is Brad Stone's account of Amazon's founding and growth from a book retailer to one of the most powerful companies in the world.
Shares entrepreneurship and operations with Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You.
Read the summary → - AI Superpowers
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Kai-Fu Lee · Business
AI Superpowers is Kai-Fu Lee's argument that the geopolitical competition to lead in artificial intelligence is primarily a two-country race between the United States and China, and that the outcome will reshape the global economy in ways most people haven't started to reckon with.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Anything You Want
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Derek Sivers · Business
Anything You Want is Derek Sivers' account of building, running, and eventually selling CD Baby, the independent musician distribution company he founded accidentally in 1998 when a few friends asked him to sell their CDs online.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Behind the Cloud
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Marc Benioff · Business
Behind the Cloud is Marc Benioff's account of building Salesforce from a startup in his apartment to the first cloud computing company to reach $1 billion in revenue.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
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Books like Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You: quick answers
What are the best books like Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You?
The best books like Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrillow are The Automatic Customer by John Warrillow, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman, The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Free Time by Jenny Blake, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You, such as business systems, entrepreneurship, exit strategy.
What should I read after Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You?
A natural next read after Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You is The Automatic Customer by John Warrillow. Both dig into entrepreneurship. Other strong choices are Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman, The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber, Good to Great by Jim Collins.
What books are similar to Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrillow?
Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You centers on business systems, entrepreneurship, exit strategy. Books with a similar feel include The Automatic Customer by John Warrillow, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman, The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Free Time by Jenny Blake, Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
