18 must-read entrepreneurship books like The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen

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The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

By: Andrew Chen

4.19

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A venture capitalist draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm, Andreessen H…

If you liked the entrepreneurship plot in The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers

By: Gabriel Weinberg , Justin Mares

3.77

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Most startups end in failure. Almost every failed startup has a product. What failed startups don't… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Weinberg's Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • management
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • business
  • technology

2. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

By: Ben Horowitz

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Hardcover

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally h… read more

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3. 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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4. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

By: Tony Fadell

4.33

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Written for anyone who wants to grow at work—from young grads navigating their first jobs to CEOs d… read more

Similar categories in Tony Fadell's Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • audiobook
  • business
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • management
  • leadership
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5. The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

By: Andrew Chen

4.19

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A venture capitalist draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm, Andreessen H… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • audiobook
  • business
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • buisness
  • management
  • leadership
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6. Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It

By: April Dunford

4.26

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

You know your product is awesome—but does anybody else? Forget everything you thought you knew abou… read more

Similar categories in April Dunford's Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • audiobook
  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • buisness
  • management
  • technology
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7. Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

By: Colin Bryar

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best p… read more

Similar categories in Colin Bryar's Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • audiobook
  • business
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • management
  • leadership
"I can say confidently that the extra time we spent slowing down to uncover the necessary truths was ultimately a faster path to a large and successful business."

-Colin Bryar, Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

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8. The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

By: Sebastian Mallaby

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year  Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Ec… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Mallaby's The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • audiobook
  • entrepreneurship
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • business
  • technology
"The first notable spinout was Kathy Xu, another woman who managed to flourish in China's venture industry. Rather than studying in the United States, Xu had experienced U.S. instruction at Nanjing Un…"

-Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

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

9. 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

Similar categories in Rob Fitzpatrick's The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • buisness
  • management
  • audiobook
"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

"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

"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

"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

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10. Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

By: Frank Slootman

4.07

Format: 208 pages, ebook

Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerThe secret to leading growth is you… read more

Similar categories in Frank Slootman's Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • audiobook
  • business
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • management
  • leadership
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11. Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

By: Reid Hoffman

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What can you learn from a Silicon Valley legend and a pantheon of iconic leaders? The key to scalin… read more

Similar categories in Reid Hoffman's Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • business
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • management
  • leadership
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12. 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

Similar categories in Melissa Perri's Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • audiobook
  • business
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman

13. Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

By: Reid Hoffman

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Foreword by Bill Gates LinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Maste… read more

Similar categories in Reid Hoffman's Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • audiobook
  • business
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • management
  • leadership
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14. The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

By: Jimmy Soni

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * … read more

Similar categories in Jimmy Soni's The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • audiobook
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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15. Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups

By: Ali Tamaseb

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Super Founders  uses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar… read more

Similar categories in Ali Tamaseb's Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • audiobook
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by Claire Hughes Johnson

16. Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building

By: Claire Hughes Johnson

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most impo… read more

Similar categories in Claire Hughes Johnson's Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • business
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Wright Helmer

17. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

By: Hamilton Wright Helmer

4.29

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

7 Powers breaks fresh ground by constructing a comprehensive strategy toolset that is easy for you … read more

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  • audiobook
  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • management
  • leadership
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18. The SaaS Playbook: Build a Multimillion-Dollar Startup Without Venture Capital

By: Rob Walling

4.36

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Do you want to build a software product that people want and are willing to pay for? Do you dream o… read more

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  • technology
  • management
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It by Scott Kupor

19. Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It

By: Scott Kupor

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller! What are venture capitalists saying about your startup behind… read more

Similar categories in Scott Kupor's Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • audiobook
  • business
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People by Elad Gil

20. High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People

By: Elad Gil

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Well-known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech compan… read more

Similar categories in Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People book and Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

  • audiobook
  • business
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • management
  • leadership

15 best-selling audiobook books like The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen

Transform Your Habits

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

Tony Fadell

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

Andrew Chen

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It

April Dunford

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

Colin Bryar

4.22

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9 must-read audiobook books like Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman

Transform Your Habits

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

Tony Fadell

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

Andrew Chen

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Measure What Matters

John Doerr

3.99

Transform Your Habits

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

Rob Fitzpatrick

4.37

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