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Books like The Startup of You
The best books like The Startup of You are Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, and The Hard Thing About Hard Things. The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha is about career strategy, entrepreneurship, networking. 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.
- 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.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - 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.
A kindred business read.
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.
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- Competitive Strategy
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Michael E. Porter · Business
Competitive Strategy is Michael Porter's foundational framework for analyzing industries and developing competitive strategy.
Both dig into competitive advantage.
Read the summary → - Good Strategy Bad Strategy
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Richard Rumelt · Business
Good Strategy Bad Strategy is Richard Rumelt's indictment of the strategic planning process as it is practiced in most organizations, and his articulation of what genuine strategy actually requires.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - The Richest Man in Town
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W. Randall Jones · Business
The Richest Man in Town is W.
Shares career strategy and entrepreneurship with The Startup of You.
Read the summary → - 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
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7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer · Business
7 Powers is Hamilton Helmer's attempt to distill the full landscape of business strategy into a single rigorous framework.
Both dig into competitive advantage.
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.
Read the summary → - Beyond Entrepreneurship
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Jim Collins & William Lazier · Business
Beyond Entrepreneurship is Jim Collins's first major book, co-written with William Lazier and published in 1992, before the research that produced Built to Last and Good to Great.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
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Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
John Warrillow · Business
Built to Sell is John Warrillow's argument that every business owner — regardless of whether they ever intend to sell — should build their company as if they were going to.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
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Books like The Startup of You: quick answers
What are the best books like The Startup of You?
The best books like The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha are Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter, Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Startup of You, such as career strategy, entrepreneurship, networking.
What should I read after The Startup of You?
A natural next read after The Startup of You is Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh. A kindred business read. Other strong choices 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, Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter.
What books are similar to The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha?
The Startup of You centers on career strategy, entrepreneurship, networking. Books with a similar feel include Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter, Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt, The Richest Man in Town by W. Randall Jones — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
