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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Written by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh
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Foreword by Bill Gates
From the authors of New York Times bestsellers, The Alliance and The Start-up of You, comes a smart and accessible must-have guide for budding entrepreneurs everywhere.
Silicon Valley is renowned for its striking number of businesses which have grown from garage start-ups into global giants; Apple, Cisco, Google, HP and Intel to name a few. But what is the secret to their outstanding success? Hoffman and Yeh explain that it’s simple: they’ve learnt how to blitzscale.
Featuring case studies from numerous prominent tech businesses such as AirBnB and WeChat, this book offers a specific set of practices for catalysing and managing dizzying growth in bourgeoning start-ups. Prioritising speed over efficiency in an environment of uncertainty, Blitzscaling illustrates how businesses can accelerate to the stage in a company’s life cycle where the most value is generated. Using the framework provided by Hoffman and Yeh, readers will learn how to design business models which simultaneously support growth at a furious pace and capture the market, as well as how to navigate the necessary shifts in strategy needed at each level of scale.
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Reviews for Blitzscaling
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very insightful book! I'd definitely read more from this author.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book - touching on a lot of the top businesses in the world today and how they got there.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love it because it has real world examples of companies from the 90s to the dotcom era to current market changers. I am a startup founder myself & I would use & recommend to fellow founders.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing book!, the best book for startups and entrepreneurship