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If you lead B2B go-to-market

Positioning, segmentation, network effects. The strategy stack for anyone moving a B2B SaaS company from early adopters to mainstream traction.

  1. 01

    Obviously Awesome

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    April Dunford · 2019

    The first book that treats positioning as an actual operating problem with a method, not a marketing aesthetic.

    Read if you are a founder or PMM whose pitch deck has been rewritten six times and still feels off.

    playbook<200pintermediate
  2. 02

    Crossing the Chasm

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    Geoffrey A. Moore · 1991

    The book that explains why your enthusiastic early users never translate into a mainstream business.

    Read if you lead go-to-market at a B2B startup transitioning from early adopters to mainstream.

    framework200–350pintermediate
  3. 03

    The Cold Start Problem

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    Andrew Chen · 2021

    The first serious book on network-effect product strategy that isn't recycled blog content.

    Read if you are building a marketplace, social, or collaboration product with network dynamics.

    framework350p+intermediate
  4. 04

    Amp It Up

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    Frank Slootman · 2022

    The closest thing to a 'how I run a public company' textbook published in the last decade.

    Read if you are a public-company-bound CEO or COO and need an operating intensity baseline.

    memoir200–350pintermediate