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Books like The Startup Owner's Manual
The best books like The Startup Owner's Manual are Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, and Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies. The Startup Owner's Manual by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf is about customer development, startups, business model. 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 startups.
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.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
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.
Both dig into startups.
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- 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.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - The Four Steps to the Epiphany
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steve Blank · Business
Steve Blank wrote The Four Steps to the Epiphany after watching hundreds of startups fail the same way: they built products based on untested assumptions, then discovered too late that no one wanted them.
Shares customer development and startups with The Startup Owner's Manual.
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.
Shares entrepreneurship and sales with The Startup Owner's Manual.
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 startups and entrepreneurship with The Startup Owner's Manual.
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 startups and entrepreneurship with The Startup Owner's Manual.
Read the summary → - Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston · Business
Founders at Work is Jessica Livingston's collection of interviews with the founders of some of the most influential technology companies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Shares startups and entrepreneurship with The Startup Owner's Manual.
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 startups and sales with The Startup Owner's Manual.
Read the summary → - Predictable Revenue
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Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler · Business
Predictable Revenue is Aaron Ross's account of the outbound sales system he built at Salesforce that generated over $100 million in recurring revenue.
Shares startups and sales with The Startup Owner's Manual.
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 startups and entrepreneurship with The Startup Owner's Manual.
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Books like The Startup Owner's Manual: quick answers
What are the best books like The Startup Owner's Manual?
The best books like The Startup Owner's Manual by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf are Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman, Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Startup Owner's Manual, such as customer development, startups, business model.
What should I read after The Startup Owner's Manual?
A natural next read after The Startup Owner's Manual is Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel. Both dig into startups. Other strong choices are Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman, Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.
What books are similar to The Startup Owner's Manual by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf?
The Startup Owner's Manual centers on customer development, startups, business model. Books with a similar feel include Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman, Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, Behind the Cloud by Marc Benioff — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
