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Books like Hacking Growth
The best books like Hacking Growth are Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth, Product-Led Growth, and Crossing the Chasm. Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown is about growth, marketing, startups. 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 growth and marketing with Hacking Growth.
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 growth and marketing with Hacking Growth.
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 Hacking Growth.
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- 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.
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 → - Growth Hacker Marketing
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Ryan Holiday · Business
Growth Hacker Marketing is Ryan Holiday's short, accessible introduction to a marketing philosophy that emerged from Silicon Valley startups in the early 2010s.
Shares growth and marketing with Hacking Growth.
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 Hacking Growth.
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 Hacking Growth.
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 growth and marketing with Hacking Growth.
Read the summary → - Competing Against Luck
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Clayton M. Christensen · Business
Competing Against Luck is Clayton Christensen's most complete development of the Jobs to Be Done framework, which he introduced briefly in The Innovator's Solution.
Shares marketing and product strategy with Hacking Growth.
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 Hacking Growth.
Read the summary → - All Marketers Are Liars
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Seth Godin · Business
All Marketers Are Liars — later republished as All Marketers Tell Stories — is Seth Godin's argument that successful marketing is not about facts or features but about stories that confirm what consumers already believe about the world.
Both dig into marketing.
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Books like Hacking Growth: quick answers
What are the best books like Hacking Growth?
The best books like Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown are Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares, Product-Led Growth by Wes Bush, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore, Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Hacking Growth, such as growth, marketing, startups.
What should I read after Hacking Growth?
A natural next read after Hacking Growth is Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares. Shares growth and marketing with Hacking Growth. Other strong choices are Product-Led Growth by Wes Bush, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore, Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger.
What books are similar to Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown?
Hacking Growth centers on growth, marketing, startups. Books with a similar feel include Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares, Product-Led Growth by Wes Bush, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore, Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
