What's the best book or blog you recommend to founders who are looking to scale their startups?

Sharath Kuruganty
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Helena Merk
Positioning by Al Ries was my recent favorite, originally written in 1980s and so much is still relevant today
Andres Campo
Hi Sharath, for me the best two books about scaling are the following: - Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman https://www.amazon.com/Blitzscal... This book talks about the mindset and strategy that some of the most successful startups have applied to grow and win the market. (Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, etc.) it’s not very practical unless you are on a position to deploy these strategies, but it gets you in the right aggressive mindset and it helps you develop an eye for levers that you can use to scale quickly. - Traction by Gabriel Weinberg https://www.amazon.com/Traction-... This one is about the tactics that Gabriel and his team followed to get traction around Duck-duck Go. This book is super practical because he breaks Down how they approached different acquisition channels and how they assessed their success long term, not only quick wins. Extremely valuable. Hope that helps!
Henry Connor Coan IV
I love First 1000 which gives case studies of successful startups and how they acquired their first 1000 users/customers. Give it a read sometime! https://www.first1000.co
Asher Fishman
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Venture Deals by Brad Feld
Richard Reis
"Hacking Growth" by Sean Ellis. His hacking growth cycle is still used at our company and helped us get to 50k monthly visitors. It's one of the many books on our "Best Marketing Books" list: https://mostrecommendedbooks.com...
NOZOMI OKUMA
Elad Gil's blog and his book "High Growth Handbook" primarily for later stage but there's good insights for early stage startups too. http://blog.eladgil.com/ https://growth.eladgil.com/
JD Dos
It's not a book but I highly recommend following Chris Do: https://www.instagram.com/thechr...
Nguyễn Duy Kỳ
CỘNG ĐỒNG HOAKY68 - Chia sẻ sản phẩm tốt blog
Amir Khamidullin
"Good to great" - Jim Collins
Abhay Bhargav
I know this might sound weird, but I like old-school books like "Antifragile" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and "Great by Choice" by Jim Collins. They are not specifically for "startups", but I learned more about building an actual business with these books
Karelle Hauck
Hi Sharath, for me the best two books about scaling are the following: - Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman. This books talks about the mindset and strategy that some of the most successful startups have applied to grow and win the market. myaarpmedicare
MLF
Not a book or a blog but I recommend it
Pat Foo
"Anything You Want" by Derek Sivers is a good albeit short one: https://sive.rs/a
Michel Gagnon
I'd recommend Rework from the guys at Basecamp: https://basecamp.com/books/rework The Science of Scaling by Mark Roberge: https://blog.stage2.capital/scie...
D Apks
Visit the following blogs to help get info on scaling your startups! 1 - Startup Scaling 2 - Entrepreneurship Guide
Chad Q. Brown
There are a lot of great books, but I really enjoyed: "The Customer Comes Second"