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Startup books recommended by founders and builders. 32 people, 79 books. Recommendation records: 99.

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Cover unavailable for Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

Portrait unavailable for Rob WallingRob Walling

Walling selects Weinberg’s Traction when asked for books for early-stage business builders.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Conor McCarthy
Evidence details Finding people who care with Rob Walling

He explicitly distinguishes this marketing book from Gino Wickman’s unrelated same-title book. The publisher verifies coauthor Justin Mares.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Conor McCarthy · undated · accessed 2026-10-01

Podcast · Original interview selection

Original host transcript at22:11-22:45 directly inspected. Undated source has access date only; no exact excerpt or preferred edition claim.

View evidence on Rob Walling’s profile

Cover unavailable for イオンを創った女 評伝小嶋千鶴子

イオンを創った女 評伝小嶋千鶴子

Portrait unavailable for Tadashi YanaiTadashi Yanai

Tadashi Yanai praises this biography as his best personnel-management reading and says he would like to distribute it to all employees.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: PRESIDENT / PRESIDENT Books
Evidence details 柳井正「これまで読んだ中で最高の人事本」

Conservative English paraphrase of Yanai’s own Japanese endorsement; no exact translated quote asserted.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

PRESIDENT / PRESIDENT Books · 2019-01-11 · accessed 2026-10-01

Interview · Direct book interview

Direct interview Q&A praises the book and expresses a wish to distribute to all employees; this citation uses the interview answer, not the promotional footer. Japanese title/author verified with national-library record029280525.

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Cover unavailable for プロフェッショナルマネジャー

プロフェッショナルマネジャー

Portrait unavailable for Tadashi YanaiTadashi Yanai

Tadashi Yanai identifies the original Professional Manager as the book from which he learned the most about management and describes its impact on his own work.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: PRESIDENT / PRESIDENT Books
Evidence details 柳井 正:プロマネ・ノートはこう読んでほしい!

Conservative English paraphrase of Yanai’s own Japanese endorsement; no exact translated quote asserted.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

PRESIDENT / PRESIDENT Books · 2011-01-23 · accessed 2026-10-01

Article · Signed reading endorsement

Signed winter2010 piece, published2011-01-23. Separate explicit endorsement names original Professional Manager as lifetime most-learned book. Reader instruction about Notes adaptation is not transferred to original.

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