r/startups · 2022
Most-mentioned books in r/startups during 2022
This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/startups within the published source unit for 2022. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.
#1 Running Lean
Ash Maurya
Ash Maurya reframes The Lean Startup as a step-by-step process for killing bad ideas before you spend money building them.
#2 The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Eric Ries tells founders to ship a broken version on purpose, collect data, and repeat until the market stops ignoring them.
#3 High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Andy Grove's Intel management playbook from 1983 — two r/startups commenters call it the book that forced them to stop playing player-coach and start leading.
#4 The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
Peter Drucker's 1967 manual on doing the right things rather than doing things right: two Reddit mentions in seven years, both cite it as the serious executive's foundation.
#5 The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz on the decisions nobody prepares you for: layoffs, firings, and the WFIO moments every real company survives or doesn't.
#6 The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick
Rob Fitzpatrick explains why your mom will lie to your face about your startup idea, and how to ask questions that stop that from happening.
#7 Traction
Gino Wickman
Gino Wickman gives small business owners a six-part operating system — Vision, People, Data, Process, Issues, Traction — and a meeting structure to run it.