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The Lean Startup vs Rework: Which Should You Actually Read?
Both books live on the same shelf: Business & Startups. Both are free to read here, in full, right now. The Lean Startup (2011, Eric Ries) argues: A startup's only job is learning what customers actually want - faster than the money runs out.… Rework (2010, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson) argues: Plans are guesses, meetings are toxic, workaholism is stupid, and you need less than you think. Just…
The Lean Startup
Most startups fail not from bad technology but from building something nobody wants - executing a flawless plan toward a destination that doesn't exist. Ries (via Toyota's lean manufacturing + Steve Blank's customer development) reframes the startup as a learn
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Rework
Fried and Hansson built Basecamp (37signals) into a famously profitable software company with a tiny remote team, no venture capital, no five-year plans, and no 60-hour weeks - then wrote down every rule they broke. Rework's chapters are two-page punches: plan
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Read The Lean Startup if you want how today's entrepreneurs use continuous innovation - build, measure,
Read Rework if you want change the way you work forever - the anti-corporate, anti-hustle, ant
The honest order for most readers: start with Rework for the base, then go deeper with the other. Both summaries are free, no paywall, in 26 languages.
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