21 Best nonfiction books like Testing Business Ideas by David J. Bland

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Testing Business Ideas

By: David J. Bland

4.25

Format: 368 pages, ebook

A practical guide to effective business model testing 7 out of 10 new products fail to deliver on …

"It’s no surprise that children raised in this style of educational system become adults who often struggle with the idea of being wrong. The culture of rewarding who is right and penalizing who is wrong extends into their businesses. They’ve been conditioned to look for that one right answer."

-David J. Bland, Testing Business Ideas

"It’s no surprise that children raised in this style of educational system become adults who often struggle with the idea of being wrong. The culture of rewarding who is right and penalizing who is wrong extends into their businesses. They’ve been conditioned to look for that one right answer."

-David J. Bland, Testing Business Ideas

"It’s no surprise that children raised in this style of educational system become adults who often struggle with the idea of being wrong. The culture of rewarding who is right and penalizing who is wrong extends into their businesses. They’ve been conditioned to look for that one right answer."

-David J. Bland, Testing Business Ideas

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Cover of Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen, Jim Collins

1. Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

By: Jim Collins , Morten T. Hansen , Jim Collins

4.10

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreak… read more

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  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • economics
  • management
"Interestingly, we instinctively chase after pleasure believing it to be the source of sustainable happiness. Many of us spend most of our time and energy chasing pleasure, sometimes enjoying flow, an…"

-Jim Collins, Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

Cover of The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank, Bob Dorf

2. The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

By: Steve Blank , Bob Dorf

4.10

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

Now a decade after the Four Steps to the Epiphany sparked the Lean Startup revolution, comes its … read more

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  • buisness
  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • economics
  • management
  • technology
Cover of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir   Eyal

3. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

By: Nir Eyal

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?Why do some products capture wide… read more

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  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • buisness
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker

4. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

By: Peter F. Drucker

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

What makes an effective executive? The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is th… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
Cover of Competing Against Luck by Clayton M. Christensen, David Duncan, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon

5. Competing Against Luck

By: Clayton M. Christensen , David Duncan , Taddy Hall , Karen Dillon

3.70

Format: 186 pages, ebook

The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs t… read more

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  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • buisness
  • management
Cover of Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space And Make The Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

6. Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space And Make The Competition Irrelevant

By: W. Chan Kim , Renée Mauborgne

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

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  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • economics
  • management
Cover of Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, None

7. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

By: Jake Knapp , John Zeratsky , None

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

From three design partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems… read more

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  • management
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
Cover of Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience by Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden

8. Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

By: Jeff Gothelf , Josh Seiden

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

The Lean UX approach to interaction design is tailor-made for today's web-driven reality. In this i… read more

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  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
  • business
  • technology

9. Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

By: Roger L. Martin , A.G. Lafley

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Are you just playing--or playing to win? Strategy is not complex. But it ishard. It's hard because … read more

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10. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win

By: Steve Blank

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The essential book for anyone bringing a product to market, writing a business plan, marketing plan… read more

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11. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

By: Geoffrey A. Moore , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. C… read more

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12. To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

By: Daniel H. Pink

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York TimesBusiness Bestseller #1 Wall StreetJournalBusiness Bestseller #1 Washington Postbe… read more

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13. Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

By: Seth Godin

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed Wall Street Journal and Business Week Bestseller. You're either a Purple Cow or you'r… read more

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14. The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback

By: Dan Olsen

3.86

Format: 368 pages,

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15. Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

By: None , None

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologie… read more

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16. Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works

By: Ash Maurya

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We're building more products than eve… read more

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17. Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want

By: Alan Smith , Alexander Osterwalder , Yves Pigneur , None , Gregory Bernarda

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

If you liked "Business Model Generation," you'll love "Value Proposition Design." The sequel builds… read more

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18. Business Model Generation

By: Alexander Osterwalder , Yves Pigneur

3.88

Format: None pages,

Business Model Generation is a practical, inspiring handbook for anyone striving to improve a busin… read more

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Cover of Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal

19. Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

By: Ajay Agrawal

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Predict… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Take Command: Find Your Inner Strength, Build Enduring Relationships, and Live the Life You Want (Dale Carnegie Books) by Joe   Hart

20. Take Command: Find Your Inner Strength, Build Enduring Relationships, and Live the Life You Want (Dale Carnegie Books)

By: Joe Hart

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Take command of your future with this groundbreaking, Wall Street Journal bestseller, from the expe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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21. Measure What Matters

By: John Doerr

3.99

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

The revolutionary movement behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber. With a f… read more

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  • management
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • business
"For anyone striving for high performance in the workplace, goals are very necessary things."

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

"Acute focus, open sharing, exacting measurement, a license to shoot for the moon—these are the hallmarks of modern goal science."

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

"If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing. The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside. It gives us an environment for risk…"

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

Cover of The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you by Rob  Fitzpatrick

22. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

By: Rob Fitzpatrick

4.37

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say y… read more

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  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • buisness
  • management
"The world’s most deadly fluff is: “I would definitely buy that."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

"Compliments are the fool’s gold of customer learning: shiny, distracting, and entirely worthless."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

"Here’s the thing: only the market can tell if your idea is good. Everything else is just opinion."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

"Trying to learn from customer conversations is like excavating a delicate archaeological site. The truth is down there somewhere, but it’s fragile."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

Cover of Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan

23. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

By: Marty Cagan

4.24

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

The basic premise of Inspired is that the best tech companies create products in a manner very diff… read more

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  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • buisness
  • management
  • technology
Cover of Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value by Teresa  Torres

24. Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value

By: Teresa Torres

4.47

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

"If you haven't had the good fortune to be coached by a strong leader or product coach, this book c… read more

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  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • research
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • management
  • technology
Cover of Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value by Melissa Perri

25. Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

By: Melissa Perri

4.30

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

To stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric pr… read more

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  • management
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • technology
Cover of No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings

26. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

By: Reed Hastings

4.28

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Netflix cofounder… read more

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  • management
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group) by Marty Cagan

27. Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)

By: Marty Cagan

4.29

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

What is it about the top tech product companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and Tesla th… read more

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  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • buisness
  • management
  • technology
"But anytime we interact with users and customers, we have a chance to learn more about them, and sometimes we discover even bigger opportunity if we're open to it"

-Marty Cagan, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)

Cover of The Invincible Company: How to Constantly Reinvent Your Organization with Inspiration From the World's Best Business Models by Alexander Osterwalder

28. The Invincible Company: How to Constantly Reinvent Your Organization with Inspiration From the World's Best Business Models

By: Alexander Osterwalder

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The long-awaited follow-up to the international bestsellers, Business Model Generation and Value Pr… read more

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  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • buisness
  • reference
  • management
Cover of Testing Business Ideas by David J. Bland

29. Testing Business Ideas

By: David J. Bland

4.25

Format: 368 pages, ebook

A practical guide to effective business model testing 7 out of 10 new products fail to deliver on … read more

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  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • research
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • buisness
  • reference
  • economics
  • management
  • technology
"It’s no surprise that children raised in this style of educational system become adults who often struggle with the idea of being wrong. The culture of rewarding who is right and penalizing who is wr…"

-David J. Bland, Testing Business Ideas

Cover of Principles for Success by Ray Dalio

30. Principles for Success

By: Ray Dalio

4.29

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining, illustrated adaptation of Ray Dalio’s Principles Principles for Success distill… read more

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  • business
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • management
Cover of High-Impact Tools for Teams: 5 Tools to Align Team Members, Build Trust, and Get Results Fast by Stefano Mastrogiacomo

31. High-Impact Tools for Teams: 5 Tools to Align Team Members, Build Trust, and Get Results Fast

By: Stefano Mastrogiacomo

4.04

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Take advantage of a powerful visual management tool for teams as you work together and deliver grea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • entrepreneurship
  • management
  • business

6 best-selling economics books like Testing Business Ideas by David J. Bland

Transform Your Habits

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

Jim Collins , Morten T. Hansen , Jim Collins

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

Steve Blank , Bob Dorf

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space And Make The Competition Irrelevant

W. Chan Kim , Renée Mauborgne

4.11

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Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Ajay Agrawal

4.24

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12 Best nonfiction books like Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal

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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

4.11

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The One Minute Manager

Spencer Johnson , Kenneth H. Blanchard

3.95

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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance

3.87

Transform Your Habits

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4.00

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