Ask HN: Suggest good books on bootstrapping a startup
Recommendations from 31 sampled comments out of 31 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.
mindhash · Nov 25, 2020Influence by Robert Cialdini
webmaven · Nov 26, 2020Good (even great) book, but has some flaws and focuses mostly on enterprise costumers.
saran945 · Nov 25, 2020started reading the third chapter of The Four Steps to the Epiphany - visionary customer Discovery, Love it.
Rivosa · Nov 25, 2020The Four Steps to the Epiphany
webmaven · Nov 26, 2020The Lean Startup
An excellent recommendation.
Rivosa · Nov 25, 2020The Lean Startup
talvi · Nov 26, 2020Mom Test is about how to talk to customers without doing what you did.
serjester · Nov 25, 2020- Mom Test
mindhash · Nov 25, 202022 Laws of marketing (must)
rahimnathwani · Nov 26, 2020The Great CEO Within is now available in print and on Kindle
Unsimplified · Nov 25, 2020The Great CEO Within. Free ebook. Popular (1K+ HN points). Good methods.
aluciani · Nov 25, 2020Another good book might be Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman.
boberoni · Nov 25, 2020"Company of One", by Paul Jarvis
mindhash · Nov 25, 2020Lean analytics. (must read)
webmaven · Nov 26, 2020The other books in the series (especially IMO Running Lean and Lean Analytics) are also worth a look:
mindhash · Nov 25, 2020Contagious (Jonah Berger)
webmaven · Nov 26, 2020The revised version The Startup Owner's Manual is more polished and covers a wider range of business models.