Lost and Founder
A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
by Rand Fishkin
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Recommended by 4 notable people, including Jake Knapp and Chris Brogan
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Best Startup Books, Entrepreneur, and Best Business Books.
Rand Fishkin, the founder and former CEO of Moz, reveals how traditional Silicon Valley "wisdom" leads far too many startups astray, with the transparency and humor that his hundreds of thousands of blog readers have come to love. Everyone knows how a startup story is supposed to go: A young, brilliant entrepreneur has an cool idea, drops out of co...
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