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Books like The Lean Startup
The best books like The Lean Startup are Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, and The Innovator's Dilemma. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries is about entrepreneurship, validated learning, innovation. 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.
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel · Business
Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - The Hard Thing About Hard Things
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · Business
The Hard Thing About Hard Things is Ben Horowitz's account of what it actually feels like to run a company through crisis.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - The Innovator's Dilemma
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Clayton M. Christensen · Business
Christensen's argument, published in 1997, is deceptively simple: the very practices that make companies excellent at serving their current customers — listening carefully, investing in proven technologies, targeting the most profitable segments — are precisely what causes them to miss disruptive innovations.
Both dig into innovation.
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- The Mom Test
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Rob Fitzpatrick · Business
The Mom Test is Rob Fitzpatrick's short guide to customer development interviews — the conversations founders and product teams have with potential customers before building something.
Shares entrepreneurship and product development with The Lean Startup.
Read the summary → - 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 → - 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 entrepreneurship and innovation with The Lean Startup.
Read the summary → - Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
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Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
Brad Feld and David Cohen · Business
Do More Faster is a collection of short essays and lessons drawn from the TechStars accelerator program, organized by Brad Feld and David Cohen, the program's co-founders.
Shares entrepreneurship and product development with The Lean Startup.
Read the summary → - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Peter F. Drucker · Business
Innovation and Entrepreneurship is Drucker's systematic treatment of a subject that, in 1985, most people still regarded as the province of lone geniuses and lucky accidents.
Shares entrepreneurship and innovation with The Lean Startup.
Read the summary → - Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
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Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Seth Godin · Business
Purple Cow is Seth Godin's argument that the era of traditional marketing — mass advertising, interruption, and promotion — is effectively over, and that the only reliable route to growth is making something so remarkable that people talk about it without being paid to.
Shares entrepreneurship and innovation with The Lean Startup.
Read the summary → - The Art of the Start 2.0
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Guy Kawasaki · Business
The Art of the Start 2.0 is Guy Kawasaki's updated guide to launching a company, product, or movement.
Shares entrepreneurship and innovation with The Lean Startup.
Read the summary → - The Jobs To Be Done Playbook
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Jim Kalbach · Business
Jim Kalbach's The Jobs To Be Done Playbook is a practitioner's guide to applying the jobs-to-be-done framework in product development and innovation work.
Shares innovation and product development with The Lean Startup.
Read the summary → - The Power Law
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Sebastian Mallaby · Business
The Power Law is Sebastian Mallaby's history of venture capital, told through the people who built the industry from its roots in postwar military research to its current position as the primary financing mechanism for technology startups worldwide.
Shares entrepreneurship and innovation with The Lean Startup.
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Books like The Lean Startup: quick answers
What are the best books like The Lean Startup?
The best books like The Lean Startup by Eric Ries are Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick, Good to Great by Jim Collins, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Lean Startup, such as entrepreneurship, validated learning, innovation.
What should I read after The Lean Startup?
A natural next read after The Lean Startup is Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel. Both dig into innovation. Other strong choices are The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick.
What books are similar to The Lean Startup by Eric Ries?
The Lean Startup centers on entrepreneurship, validated learning, innovation. Books with a similar feel include Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
