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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares · 2015

A guide to evaluating customer-acquisition channels and choosing approaches for a startup. The catalog uses the publisher-verified 2015 edition.

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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth appears in 1 currently documented source-backed recommendation.

Rob Walling Software founder and TinySeed cofounder

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Documented citation: Walling selects Weinberg’s Traction when asked for books for early-stage business builders.

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