Recommended books?

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Some of my favorites:

• No Rules Rules
• Zero to Sold
• Design to Grow
• Radical Candor
• What You Do Is Who You Are

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Anything you want by Derek Sivers is a must for me.

I agree with some of the comments, Zero to Sold and Traction are great books!

You might also want to try out Tim Ferriss books such as Tribe of Mentors or Tools of Titans, these books have great interviews and advice that could serve as a virtual mentor for you. Let me if that fits your books preference.

Wishing you a great day! 🚀

I highly recommend The Upstarts by Brad Stone. With detailed insider accounts, the book offers lessons learned from industry-leading tech titans on their path towards growth. It is perfect for tech entrepreneurs.

At the moment I'm reading George Orwell's 1984, which is a classic and I would recommend it regardless of being indie or not 😉

If you want a book by and indie hacker that tells the story of how he went about building, marketing and selling a small side-project, then I can recommend you my book 😊.

If you're into big names, then my recommendation would be Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, shows real struggles of someone who built an empire.

Don't read The Lean Startup... it just isn't that great. I'm not sure why it's referenced so much.

Running Lean (the next one in the series, but by a different author) is hands down 100x better. Provides much better insights and actionable things to do.

The Mom Test by @robfitz is amazing.

Classic Startup Books that really helped me where

• The lean Startup by Eric Ries about the fundamental approach to running a startup
• Measure What Matters by John Doerr and Larry Page about running a data (OKR/KPI) driven company
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• Principles by Ray Dalio about company culture
• The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly about future trends
• The Hard thing about hard things by Ben Horrowitz about leadership
• Zero to One about striving for a Monopoly

And here's the Anti-Portfolio, books that are somehow popular and that I found terrible:

• Anything by Gary Vaynerchuck (unless you're specifically interested in reading about how great Gary Vaynerchuck is)

This post has recommendations from some successful indie hackers (https://www.indiehackers.com/post/what-are-the-most-indispensable-books-for-indie-hackers-e2ec3a13e9).

The List

• Ernest Hemingway On Writing by Larry W. Phillips
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• Traction, by Justin Mares and Gabriel Weinberg
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
• Scaling Up by Verne Harnish
• Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
• Give and Take by Adam Grant
• Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
• The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
• Reboot by Jerry Colonna
• Badass (and "Creating Passionate Users") by Kathy Sierra
• Authority by Nathan Barry
• Hooked by Nir Eyal
• Just Listen by Mark Goulston
• 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
• Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
• How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis

A classic book is "the lean startup" by Eric Ries.

Besides that, I would also recommend "Hooked" by Nir Eyal & Ryan Hoover as well as "Start with why" by Simon Sinek

Few of my favorites for the early/indie stage are:

• Zero to One
• The Innovator's Dilemma
• Traction

I find that reading about the early days of companies that became successful is also motivational/inspirational. Few of my favorites here are:

• The Everything Store
• Hatching Twitter
• Chaos Monkeys
• One Wild Ride