February 2026
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 50m
English
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Further Readings
We’ve referenced authors throughout our book and have listed their books here for further reading along with other books that have inspired us:
- Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors That Drive Effective Selling by Frank V. Cespedes
- Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice by Clayton Chirstenson
- Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup by Bill Aulet
- Dream Big and Win: Translating Passion into Purpose and Creating a Billion Dollar Business by Liz Elting
- The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs by Kevin D. Johnson
- Entrepreneurship: Choice and Strategy by Joshua Gans and Erin Scott
- The Experimentation Machine: Finding Product-Market Fit in the Age of AI by Jeff Bussgang
- Going There by Katie Couric
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
- The Media Training Bible: 101 Things You Absolutely, Positively Need to Know Before Your Next Interview by Brad Phillips
- MIT Sloan’s Ideas Made to Matter at https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter
- 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
- Sailing True North, Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character by Admiral James Stavridis
- Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to Go from $0 to $100 Million ...
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