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

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Hi Sharath, for me the best two books about scaling are the following: - Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman 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 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!
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!
Positioning by Al Ries was my recent favorite, originally written in 1980s and so much is still relevant today
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Venture Deals by Brad Feld
"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:
It's not a book but I highly recommend following Chris Do:
"Good to great" - Jim Collins
"Anything You Want" by Derek Sivers is a good albeit short one:
Visit the following blogs to help get info on scaling your startups! 1 - 2 -
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