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What should I read before starting a business?

Most startup advice fails at the same point: nobody checked whether anyone wanted the thing. Validate first, then learn offers, then fill in the general toolkit.

  1. Read this first

    The Mom Test

    Rob Fitzpatrick · · Highly recommended

    The cheapest failure-prevention available: how to ask customers questions they cannot politely lie to.

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  2. $100M Offers

    Alex Hormozi · · Recommended

    Pricing and offer construction - the part most founders wing, from someone who did not.

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  3. The Personal MBA

    Josh Kaufman · · Worth skimming

    The broad map: every core business concept in one place, so you know what you do not know.

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