Top SaaS books curated 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.

Monetization: How to Optimize Sales Funnels and Skyrocket Backend Profits

Monetization: How to Optimize Sales Funnels and Skyrocket Backend Profits

Are you ready to transform your business and skyrocket your profits? "Monetization" by Caleb O'Dowd is not just another marketing book—it's your blueprint to mastering the art of sales funnels and unlocking massive backend profits in your business. Described by readers as "loaded with gems" and …

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

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 partit…

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Begin With WE: 10 Principles for Building and Sustaining a Culture of Excellence

Begin With WE: 10 Principles for Building and Sustaining a Culture of Excellence

Toxic work culture? Do words like apathetic, disengaged, insecure, and afraid describe how you feel about your role or even your organization?
Former Fortune 10 senior executive turned author and inspirational speaker Kyle McDowell has found the cure to rid the corporate world of its dysfunct…

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

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 busine…

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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

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 swal…

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

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 willin…

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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

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. W…

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Crossing the Chasm

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 willin…

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

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 le…

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