by Gabriel Weinberg
Rating: 4.2 ⭐
• 6 recommendations ❤️
Two successful startup founders offer a comprehensive overview of the various ways startups can achieve strong, sustainable growth, and a guide to choosing the ones that will make the differencce.Why do so many startups fail? According to entrepreneurs Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares, most failed startups don’t get off the ground not because of a bad product, but because they don’t have enough customers. They make the fatal mistake of putting all their effort into perfecting their product at the cost of reaching out to potential users. Instead, they should be putting half their resources into getting traction.TRACTION is the essential guide for any startup looking to stay ahead of the curve and start building a user base early in the game. The book offers no one-size-fits-all solution: every startup is unique, so no single method is guaranteed to generate traction. Instead, the authors identify nineteen different traction channels from viral marketing to trade shows, offer insights on how to exploit each one to its fullest potential, and provide a framework to test various channels and identify the best one for any startup.Drawing on advice from more than 40 successful startup founders and marketers, from Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales to American Apparel’s Ryan Holiday, TRACTION is a comprehensive textbook for marketing your way to growth.
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller!"You can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form. You've got to have models in your head."- Charlie Munger, investor, vice chairman of Berkshire HathawayThe world's greatest problem-solvers, forecasters, and decision-makers all rely on a set of frameworks and shortcuts that help them cut through complexity and separate good ideas from bad ones. They're called mental models, and you can find them in dense textbooks on psychology, physics, economics, and more.Or, you can just read Super Thinking, a fun, illustrated guide to every mental model you could possibly need. How can mental models help you? Well, here are just a few examples... • If you've ever been overwhelmed by a to-do list that's grown too long, maybe you need the Eisenhower Decision Matrix to help you prioritize. • Use the 5 Whys model to better understand people's motivations or get to the root cause of a problem. • Before concluding that your colleague who messes up your projects is out to sabotage you, consider Hanlon's Razor for an alternative explanation. • Ever sat through a bad movie just because you paid a lot for the ticket? You might be falling prey to Sunk Cost Fallacy. • Set up Forcing Functions, like standing meeting or deadlines, to help grease the wheels for changes you want to occur.So, the next time you find yourself faced with a difficult decision or just trying to understand a complex situation, let Super Thinking upgrade your brain with mental models.Note: in the US the subtitle is The Big Book of Mental Models and outside it is Upgrade Your Reasoning and Make Better Decisions with Mental Models.
In Traction , serial entrepreneurs Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares give startups the tools for generating explosive customer growth'Anyone trying to break through to new customers can use this smart, ambitious book'Eric Ries, author of The Lean StartupMost startups don't fail because they can't build a product. Most startups fail because they can't get traction.Building a successful company is hard. Smart entrepreneurs know that the key to success isn't the originality of your offering, the brilliance of your team, or how much money you raise. It's how consistently you can grow and acquire new customers.Traction will teach you the nineteen channels you can use to build a customer base, and offers a three-step framework to figure out which ones will work best for your business. No matter how you apply them, the lessons and examples in Traction will help you create and sustain the growth your business desperately needs.'Here is the inside scoop, the latest, most specific tactics from the red-hot centre of the Internet marketing universe. From someone who has done it. Twice'Seth Godin, author of Linchpin
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by Gabriel Weinberg
Rating: 3.4 ⭐
Em Tração, Gabriel Weinberg e Justin Mares, empreendedores inveterados, fornecem ferramentas para que toda startup consiga um aumento explosivo no número de clientes. Muitas startups são malsucedidas não porque têm um produto ruim, mas porque não conseguem ganhar tração. Fazer uma empresa emplacar é difícil. O bom empreendedor sabe que o segredo do sucesso não é a originalidade da ideia, nem o talento da equipe, tampouco quanto dinheiro consegue ganhar. O mais importante é a capacidade de crescer e conquistar cada vez mais clientes. Tração apresenta os 19 canais que sua empresa pode usar para criar uma base de clientes ou fazer crescer uma já existente e apresenta um modelo de três etapas para o empreendedor descobrir quais vão dar mais resultado. E não importa como isso tudo é as lições e os exemplos em Tração vão ajudá-lo a criar e a sustentar o crescimento de que sua empresa tanto precisa.
by Gabriel Weinberg
Rating: 3.0 ⭐
“Este livro foi escrito por quem entende da coisa, as táticas mais novas e específicas direto do centro do universo do marketing digital E de alguém que já provou que sabe o que faz. Duas vezes.” Seth Godin, autor de Você é indispensável? “Sempre ouço as mesmas dúvidas, ‘Como saber se meu negócio está ganhando tração?’, ‘Como ganhar tração?’, ‘Como conseguir usuários?’. Aqui há a resposta a essas e muitas outras perguntas.”James Altucher, autor de Escolha você“O empreendedor que sai da nossa empresa com um ‘term sheet’ é aquele que entrou com o livro Tração, um guia pragmático para vencer o primeiro grande desafio do empreendedor.”Fred Wilson, sócio da Union Square Ventures “Quando põe a empresa para andar, a pergunta que todo fundador se faz é a ‘Como faço para ganhar tração’. Este livro traz aresposta.”Alexis Ohanian, cofundador do Reddit“Tração é um guia crucial na luta de todo empreendedor para a empresa crescer e escalar.”Patrick Vlaskovits, autor de Empreendedorismo enxuto “Este livro é leitura obrigatória para quem deseja entender os canais de marketing e ter uma metodologia de ataque, essencial para conquistar tração em uma startup.”Thiago Reis, fundador da Growth Machine e consultor de estratégias de crescimento Editora : Editora Alta Books; 1ª edição (28 agosto 2020)Idioma : PortuguêsCapa comum : 256 páginasISBN-10 : 8550814091ISBN-13 : 978-8550814094Dimensões : 22.8 x 15.8 x 1.4 cm
by Gabriel Weinberg
You want to make better decisions. You want to be right more of the time professionally and personally. However, being more right consistently is a hard problem because the world is such a complex, evolving place. How do you navigate this complexity?Mental models are decision-making tools that guide our perception of the world and our behaviour in it. They help us understand life, make decisions and solve problems. The best models help us make intelligent investments, develop groundbreaking technologies and even travel to outer space.Building on our knowledge of well-known models such as the Bandwagon Effect or Paradigm Shift and introducing us to the lesser known like the Eisenhower Matrix or the Boiling Frog Symbol, this indispensable audiobook distils the most effective mental models into a single digestible volume.It will make even the most complex models accessible and engaging to enable you to make better, more informed decisions in every part of your life.PLEASE When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.