The Founder Bookshelf

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3 books on Strategy for finding pmf

  1. Business Model Generation cover

    Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur

    Design and reinvent your business model on a single canvas.

    A visually rich, co-created handbook that introduces the Business Model Canvas, a one-page framework of nine building blocks for describing how an organization...

  2. Intercom on Product Management cover

    Des Traynor and John Collins

    Short, sharp essays on building the right product.

    This compact book collects essays from Intercom's team on how to do product management well. It covers deciding what to build, ruthlessly prioritizing, saying no, and...

  3. Michael Schrage

    Cheap, fast experiments beat big, untested ideas.

    Schrage argues that organizations get more innovation value from running many cheap experiments than from chasing a few good ideas. He introduces the 5x5 framework:...

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