Episode · My First Million · 2020-03-08
Books mentioned on My First Million - 05/05/2020
Shaan Puri recommended The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick and Influence by Robert B. Cialdini. Also mentioned: Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham and Influence, New and Expanded: the Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B Cialdini.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hackers & Painters
Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham is a collection of influential essays examining technology, startup culture, programming, and the creative mindset required to build groundbreaking software and companies.
Recommended“by the way there's a you know there's probably like 10 blog posts that matter the most If you're gonna do a start-up One of them is the Paul Graham essay Do things that don't scale where he's talking about with Airbnb early on and if you're kind of in the startup world just fast forward 30 seconds But if”
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The Mom Test
The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick is a concise startup guide that teaches entrepreneurs how to properly conduct customer interviews and validate business ideas by asking effective questions.
Recommended“if you want to learn about this stuff I think the best book I've ever read on this is called the mom test”
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Influence
Influence by Robert B.
Recommended“so another thing I would do to run this company is I would go to is it it was a book called influence by Robert Chow Dini”
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Influence, New and Expanded: the Psychology of Persuasion
Influence, New and Expanded: the Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B.
Discussed“So another thing I would do to run this company is I would go to is it it was a book called influence by Robert Chow Dini He's got this thing called the rule of reciprocity It's summed up in basically I can do a favor for Shaun and he's gonna do a favor back to me even if he”
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