From Startup to Exit” is a fantastic resource for any startup founder, even more so if you are a 1st-time founder and entrepreneur. Building a successful startup takes investments at all stages – in your leadership capabilities, your product strategy, your go-to-market strategy, how you provide value to the customer and how you build your team. Shirish’s anecdotes and lessons in this book are highly relevant and apt to help any entrepreneur build and scale a successful technology business.

With thousands and thousands of new tech startups launching every year, it’s shocking how little practical guidance for entrepreneurs has been published. Shirish’s new book provides rarely seen real-world advice for founders overwhelmed by the real world. Every tech entrepreneur should take a few hours off from the grind, in the wee hours of the morning or over a weekend, to benefit from the wisdom of a compatriot who has been there several times before.
 

If you are building a marketplace, read Winner Takes All. Through rich case studies, the book illuminates many different paths to success. It also provides insights about how to handle key challenges that can derail a new marketplace venture: Chicken-and-egg dynamics; disintermediation; which side to charge; and building trust.