Top SaaS books recommended by experts

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Fundamentals of SaaS

Understanding the concepts of SaaS starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.

Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets

In this farsighted, pioneering guide, the founders of Silicon Valley advisory firm Play Bigger rely on data analysis and interviews to understand the inner workings of “category kings”— companies such as Amazon, Salesforce, Uber, and IKEA—that give us new ways of living, thinking or doing business, often solving problems we didn’t know we had.

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Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures: Principles, Practices, and Patterns Using AWS

Software as a service (SaaS) is on the path to becoming the de facto model for building, delivering, and operating software solutions. Adopting a multi-tenant SaaS model requires builders to take on a broad range of new architecture, implementation, and operational challenges. How data is partitioned, how resources are isolated, how tenants are authenticated, how microservices are built—these …

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Crossing the Chasm

In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle—which begins with innovators and moves to early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards—there is a vast chasm between the early adopters and the early majority. While early adopters are willing to sacrifice for the advantage of being first, the early majority waits until they know that the t…

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Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers

In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle—which begins with innovators and moves to early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards—there is a vast chasm between the early adopters and the early majority. While early adopters are willing to sacrifice for the advantage of being first, the early majority waits until they know that the t…

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THE GO TO MARKET HANDBOOK FOR B2B SaaS LEADERS: HOW TO STACK THE ODDS IN YOUR FAVOUR WHEN SCALING YOUR SOFTWARE BUSINESS

There are few people we admire more than the Founders and Leaders of software companies who have the courage, determination and, some might say, sheer madness to put their livelihoods and reputation on the line, to leave their own ‘dent in the universe’. It's a day to day, up at dawn, pride swallowing siege to lead such a business. And we know this for a fact because we’ve walked in your shoes…

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The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers and Learn If Your Business is a Good Idea when Everyone is Lying to You

They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell you the truth. It's your responsibility to…

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Additional SaaS Reading

These books are not required for you to learn SaaS, but they are highly recommended for you to deepen your knowledge.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog. While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how diffi…

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Hacking SaaS: An Insider's Guide to Managing Software Business Success

In fact, today’s college graduates are unlikely to encounter it in their careers. That’s because software as a Service, or SaaS, provides the necessary customer insight companies need to innovate better and faster than their competitors—and it’s now the dominant business model for nascent and legacy software companies alike. The only problem? SaaS’s rapid rise resulted in a fragmented understa…

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