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Rob Fitzpatrick

Completely Revised 2nd Edition.Everyone tells you to “talk to your customers.” Almost no one tells you how to do it without being misled.THE MOM TEST is the essential guide to customer discovery, showing founders, product teams, and creators how to ask better questions and get real answers. Named after the idea that even your mom will lie to protect your feelings, the book reveals why most customer interviews fail and how t...

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Rob Fitzpatrick

The goal of book marketing is to stop needing to do itLearn how to:Scope your book into the world's best solution for a certain type of readerTest, improve, & iterate your ToC without needing to rewrite anythingDesign a engaging reader experience that makes your book a delight to readDiscover the hidden analytics of boredom & confusion to identify book-killing problems & make the most of beta readersTreat mark...

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Rob Fitzpatrick

Completely Revised 2nd Edition.Everyone tells you to “talk to your customers.” Almost no one tells you how to do it without being misled.THE MOM TEST is the essential guide to customer discovery, showing founders, product teams, and creators how to ask better questions and get real answers. Named after the idea that even your mom will lie to protect your feelings, the book reveals why most customer interviews fail ...

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Rob Fitzpatrick

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Rob Fitzpatrick

The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little. As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell y...

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Jonathan Ballou, Bradley Stith, Bill Pranty, Glen Woolfenden, F. Lance Craighead, Ernest Vyse, Rob Roy Ramey II, John A. Wiens, Philip Hedrick, Paul Beier, Michael Gilpin, Jennifer Rechel, Mary Price, Vdernon Bleich, John Wehausen, Walter Koenig, Jon Fischer, William Z. Lidicker Jr., Kevin McKelvey, Richard Merrick, Thomas Loughlin, Ann York, J. W. Fitzpatrick

Development of rural landscapes is converting once-vast expanses of open space into pockets of habitat where wildlife populations exist in isolation from other members of their species. The central concept of metapopulation dynamics -- that a constellation of partially isolated patches can yield overall stability to a system that is chaotic at the level of the individual patch -- offers an important new way of thinking about the conservation and management of populations dispersed among sm...

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Matthew Dicks, Dan Kennedy

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Matthew Dicks

A five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story — and why doing so matters.Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and eng...

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Dan Olsen

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Walter Dixon

The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers loveThe Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice.The Lean Startup movement has contributed new and v...

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Chet Holmes, Jay Conrad Levinson, Amanda Holmes

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Amanda Holmes, George Newbern

NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATEDThe bestselling business playbook for turbocharging any organization, updated for modern audiences with new and never-before-seen materialEvery single day 3,076 businesses shut their doors. But what if you could create the finest, most profitable and best-run version of your business without wasting precious dollars on a thousand different strategies? When The Ultimate Sales Machine first published in 2007,...

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Seth Godin

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Seth Godin

**#1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerInstant New York Times BestsellerA game-changing approach to marketing, sales, and advertising.**Seth Godin has taught and inspired millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, leaders, and fans from all walks of life, via his blog, online courses, lectures, and bestselling books. He is the inventor of countless ideas that have made their way into mainstream business language, from Permission Marketing to Pu...

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Ben Horowitz

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Kevin Kenerly

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, ...

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Eric Barker

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Roger Wayne

Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn:• Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength• Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come...

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John Doerr

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John Doerr, Various, William Davidow, Brett Kopf, Jini Kim, Mike Lee, Atticus Tysen, Patti Stonesifer, Susan Wojcicki, Cristos Goodrow, Julia Collins, Alex Garden, Joseph Suzuki

Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth--and how it can help any organization thrive.In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, b...