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Books like Growth Hacker Marketing
The best books like Growth Hacker Marketing are Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth, The Lean Startup, and Contagious: Why Things Catch On. Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday is about marketing, growth, product-market fit. 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.
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares · Business
Traction is Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares's systematic guide to customer acquisition for startups.
Shares marketing and growth with Growth Hacker Marketing.
Read the summary → - The Lean Startup
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Eric Ries · Business
The Lean Startup is Eric Ries's argument that the biggest cause of startup failure is not building the wrong product — it's spending months or years building something before finding out whether anyone wants it.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Contagious: Why Things Catch On
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Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Jonah Berger · Business
Contagious is Jonah Berger's analysis of why certain products, ideas, and stories spread through word of mouth while others, equally good or better, remain obscure.
Both dig into marketing.
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- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Nir Eyal · Business
Hooked is Nir Eyal's framework for designing products that people return to without external prompting.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Hacking Growth
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Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown · Business
Hacking Growth is Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown's guide to building a growth function — an organizationally distinct, cross-functional team focused on finding and exploiting opportunities to accelerate customer acquisition, retention, and revenue.
Shares marketing and growth with Growth Hacker Marketing.
Read the summary → - Product-Led Growth
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Wes Bush · Business
Product-Led Growth is Wes Bush's guide to a go-to-market strategy in which the product itself is the primary vehicle for customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion — rather than sales and marketing teams that generate leads and hand them to the product.
Shares marketing and growth with Growth Hacker Marketing.
Read the summary → - Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh · Business
Blitzscaling is Reid Hoffman's argument that certain markets — primarily those with strong network effects and winner-take-most dynamics — reward companies that prioritize speed of growth over efficiency, even at the cost of significant operational risk.
Shares growth and startups with Growth Hacker Marketing.
Read the summary → - Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love
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Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love
Anthony Kennada · Business
Category Creation is Anthony Kennada's account of how Gainsight, where he served as chief marketing officer, built the customer success management category from scratch — and the broader argument that this approach to marketing, creating a new market category rather than competing within an existing one, produces compounding advantages that conventional brand-building rarely matches.
Shares marketing and growth with Growth Hacker Marketing.
Read the summary → - Crossing the Chasm
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Geoffrey A. Moore · Business
Crossing the Chasm is Geoffrey Moore's analysis of why so many technology companies succeed with early adopters and then stall before reaching mainstream customers.
Shares marketing and startups with Growth Hacker Marketing.
Read the summary → - Disciplined Entrepreneurship
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Bill Aulet · Business
Bill Aulet's Disciplined Entrepreneurship is a structured walkthrough of 24 steps for building a new venture, developed from MIT's entrepreneurship curriculum and Aulet's own experience as a serial entrepreneur.
Shares product-market fit and startups with Growth Hacker Marketing.
Read the summary → - Obviously Awesome
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April Dunford · Business
Obviously Awesome is April Dunford's practical guide to product positioning — the often misunderstood discipline of defining where your product fits in the competitive landscape so that the right customers immediately understand its value.
Shares marketing and startups with Growth Hacker Marketing.
Read the summary → - The Cold Start Problem
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Andrew Chen · Business
The Cold Start Problem is Andrew Chen's framework for understanding network effects — the phenomenon where products become more valuable as more people use them — and the specific challenge every such product faces at launch: it has no network, and no value, until it does.
Shares growth and startups with Growth Hacker Marketing.
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Books like Growth Hacker Marketing: quick answers
What are the best books like Growth Hacker Marketing?
The best books like Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday are Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal, Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Growth Hacker Marketing, such as marketing, growth, product-market fit.
What should I read after Growth Hacker Marketing?
A natural next read after Growth Hacker Marketing is Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares. Shares marketing and growth with Growth Hacker Marketing. Other strong choices are The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal.
What books are similar to Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday?
Growth Hacker Marketing centers on marketing, growth, product-market fit. Books with a similar feel include Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal, Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown, Product-Led Growth by Wes Bush — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
