When growing a business, founders face many challenges that may make or break their company. Most SaaS founders google their way through these obstacles. However, the answers they find are either what they don't need or solutions with little to no assurance. It's so easy to consult Q&As and startup blogs' wisdom, but it is always better to hear it from someone experienced and wise. Learning from the best of the best in SaaS history is the smartest way to build a company. A billionaire habit that every founder should apply is reading. It is an excellent resource of guidance and cognizance that every leader needs. Thousands of CEOs and entrepreneurs have been successful by having a book in hand. Today, we've gathered the top 50 books of SaaS advice and insight for both startups and established founders.

TOP 100 OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR
SAAS FOUNDERS​

Behind the Clouds

Author: Marc Benioff

Making predictions about the future is always tricky. But there is one prediction that author Rob Bernshteyn is quite confident in making: Across a host of industries, we will move to a model that he calls value as a service.

 

It is already common knowledge that many traditional-products companies are converting the delivery of their offerings to the as-a-service model. With the completion of this transition assumed, the coming disruption will focus less on the delivery model and more on the value delivered.

 

Value as a Service is the simple idea that measurable value delivered for customers will be the ultimate competitive battleground. Every customer will want to understand the exact value that they are being provided. They will want a quantifiable difference as they compare their options.

 

Is your business ready to embrace this coming disruption? Are you ready?

Value as a Service: Embracing the coming disruption

Author: Rob Bernshteyn

Scaling Up: How Few Companies Make It…
And Why The Rest Don’t

Author: Verne Harnish

Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide To Creating Ridiculously Good Content

Author: Anne Handley

Zero To One: Notes On Startups, Or How To Build The Future

Author: Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

Author: Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares

Product Demos That Sell: How To Deliver Winning Saas Demos

Author: Steli Efti

From Impossible To Inevitable

Author: Aaron Ross & Jason Lemkin

Hiring Success: How Visionary Ceos Compete For The Best Talent

Author: Jerome Ternyck

From Impossible To Done: A Modern Strategy To Engineer Awesome Saas Products

Author: Remy Gendron

Traction: Get A Grip On Your Business

Author: Gino Wickman

Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups’ Early Days

Author: Jessica Livingston

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation To Create Radically Successful Businesses

Author: Eric Ries

The Infinite Game

Author: Simon Sineck

Rework

Author: Jason Fried

Zero To One: Notes On Startups, Or How To Build The Future

Author: Peter Thiel

How To Win Friends & Influence People

Author: Dale Carnegie

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building A Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Author: Ben Horowitz

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work And What To Do About It

Author: Michael Gerber

Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap And Others Don't

Author: Jim Collins

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Author: Timothy Ferris

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

Author: Gabriel Weinberg

Outliers: The Story Of Success

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

Steve Jobs

Author: Walter Isaacson

Think And Grow Rich

Author: Napoleon Hill

Sapiens: A Brief History Of Humankind

Author: Yuval Noah Harari

Influence: The Psychology Of Persuasion, Revised Edition

Author: Robert B. Cialdini

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less

Author: David Mckeown

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, And The Gates Foundation Rock The World With Okrs

Author: John Doerr

Lost And Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide To The Startup World

Author: Rand Fishkin

Hooked: How To Build Habit-Forming Products

Author: Nir Eyal

Turning The Flywheel: A Monograph To Accompany Good To Great

Author: Jim Collins

Principles: Life And Work

Author: Ray Dalio

Getting Things Done: The Art Of Stress-Free Productivity

Author: David Allen

How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big: Kind Of The Story Of My Life

Author: Scott Adams

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups To Build A Thriving Organization

Author: Dave Logan

The Snowball: Warren Buffett And The Business Of Life

Author: Alice Shroeder

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change The Way You Do Business

Author: Clayton M. Christensen

Delivering Happiness: A Path To Profits, Passion, And Purpose

Author: Tony Hsieh

Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, And Habits Of Billionaires, Icons, And World-Class Performers

Author: Timothy Ferris

Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.Com

Author: Aaron Ross

Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is The Next Big Thing For Business

Author: Paul Jarvis

The 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing: Violate Them At Your Own Risk!

Author: Al Ries

Badass: Making Users Awesome

Author: Kathy Sierra

Thinking, Fast And Slow

Author: Daniel Kahnema

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)

Author: Peter Diamandis

Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success In A Distracted World

Author: Cal Newport

Anything You Want

Author: Derek Sivers

Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action

Author: Simon Sinek

Built To Last: Successful Habits Of Visionary Companies
(Good To Great)

Author: Jim Collins

Product Demos That Sell: How To Deliver Winning Saas Demos

Author: Eliyahu M. Goldratt

The Secret

Author: Rhonda Byrne

Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

Author: Chris Voss

Crossing The Chasm: Marketing And Selling High-Tech Products To Mainstream Customers

Author: Geoffrey A. Moore

The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck: A Counterintuitive Approach To Living A Good Life

Author: Mark Manson

Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business

Author: Being Remarkable By Seth Godin

The Ride Of A Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Years As CEO Of The Walt Disney Company

Author: Robert Iger

RobertShoe Dog: A Memoir By The Creator Of Nike

Author: Phil Knight

This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See

Author: Seth Godin

Never Eat Alone, Expanded And Updated: And Other Secrets To Success, One Relationship At A Time

Author: Keith Ferrazzi

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success And Failure

Author: Grant Cardone

Daring Greatly: How The Courage To Be Vulnerable Transforms The Way We Live, Love, Parent, And Lead

Author: Brené Brown

Man's Search For Meaning

Author: Viktor Frankl

The Alchemist

Author: Paulo Coelho

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways To Stop Procrastinating And Get More Done In Less Time: Library Edition

Author: Brian Tracy

The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team: A Leadership Fable

Author: Patrick Lencioni

The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable: With A New Section: "On Robustness And Fragility" (Incerto)

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role Of Chance In Life And In The Markets (Incerto)

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Awaken The Giant Within : How To Take Immediate Control Of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical And Financial Destiny!

Author: Tony Robbins

The Art Of The Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything

Author: Guy Kawasaki

The 48 Laws Of Power

Author: Robert Greene

Hacking Sales: The Playbook For Building A High-Velocity Sales Machine

Author: Max Altschuler

Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn And Growing Recurring Revenue

Author: Nick Mehta, Dan Steinman And Lincoln Murphy

Disrupting Digital Business: Create An Authentic Experience In The Peer-To-Peer Economy

Author: R “Ray” Wang

100 Days Of Growth

Author: Sujan Patel & Rob Wormley

Content Strategy For The Web

Author: Kristina Halvorson

Social Selling: Techniques To Influence Buyers And Changemakers

Author: Tim Hughes

The Elements Of User Onboarding

Author: Samuel Hulick

Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer On The Future Of PR, Marketing And Advertising

Author: Ryan Holiday

Hacking Growth: How Today’s Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

Author: Sean Ellis, Morgan Brown

The Science of Selling

Author: David Hoffeld

Influence: The Psychology Of Persuasion

Author: Robert Cialdini

To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

Author: Daniel H. Pink

Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Author: Austin Kleon

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability

Author: Steve Krug

The Lean Product Playbook: How To Innovate With Minimum Viable Products And Rapid Customer Feedback

Author: Dan Olsen

They Ask You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach To Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, And Today's Digital Consumer

Author: Marcus Sheridan

All Marketers Tell Stories (With A New Preface): The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--And Why Authenticity Is The Best Marketing Of All

Author: Seth Godin

The Saas Sales Method For Customer Success & Account Managers: How To Grow Customers

Author: Jacco Van Der Kooij & Fernando Pizarro

Product Demos That Sell: How To Deliver Winning Saas Demos

Author: Dominique Levin, Jacco Van Der Kooij

The Saas Email Marketing Playbook: Convert Leads, Increase Customer Retention, And Close More Recurring Revenue With Email

Author: Étienne Garbugli

Product-Led Growth How To Build A Product That Sells Itself

Author: Bush Wes

The Saas Sales Method For Account Executives: How To Win Customers

Author: Jacco Van Der Kooij, Winning By Design & Fernando Pizarro

The Complete Guide To Software As A Service: Everything You Need To Know About SaaS

Author: Robert Michon

Retention Point: The Single Biggest Secret To Membership And Subscription Growth For Associations, SAAS, Publishers, Digital Access, Subscription ... Membership And Subscription-Based Businesses

Author: Robert Skrob

Lean B2B Build Products Businesses Want

Author: Étienne Garbugli, Annemarie Vander Veen & François Maisonneuve

The Saas Sales Method For Sales Development Representatives: How To Prospect For Customers

Author: Jacco Van Der Kooij, Dan Smith, Winning By Design & Fernando Pizarro

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

Author: James Clear

Mastering Product Experience: How To Deliver Personalized Product Experiences With A Product-Led Strategy

Author: Nick Bonfiglio & Mickey Alon

"I just wanted to drop you a note to say thank you, for sharing your templates with me. I have 2 new Enterprise Sales Managers (AE’s) staring on Monday, and I have used them to great effect. ​ The playbook will be a living breathing document that will constantly evolve. The template and the headings that you shared, provided a great starting point!"
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