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Dharmesh Shah

HubSpot co-founder and CTO

A software entrepreneur who co-founded HubSpot and developed the first version of Website Grader. His own posts document the reading included here.

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Books Dharmesh Shah recommends, documented so far

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Business Startups

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days

by Jessica Livingston · 2007

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Jessica Livingston · Book author

Documented citation: Shah recommends the book’s detailed founder interviews while noting that he is halfway through reading it.

His recommendation is documented during incomplete reading, without implying he finished the book.

Documented citation · Recommended

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Startups: Why What You Build Is Less Important Than Who You Build It With

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Dharmesh Shah · 2007-02-14 · accessed 2026-10-01

article · Own written recommendation

Own dated post explicitly recommends the book while halfway through. Reading completion is not asserted; his own Inbound Marketing is excluded.

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Startups Marketing Technology

Crossing the Chasm

by Geoffrey A. Moore · 1991

Why this author is included

Geoffrey A. Moore · Book author

Documented citation: Shah explicitly urges software-business readers who have not read Crossing the Chasm to get it.

Original conference post recommends the book separately from the speaker invitation. No preferred edition is asserted.

Documented citation · Recommended

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Dharmesh Speaking At Business of Software: Why You Should Go Anyways

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Dharmesh Shah · 2009-07-13 · accessed 2026-10-01

article · Own written recommendation

Own dated post includes an explicit instruction to readers about this book. Separate original event from 2007, not a copy of the same reading list.

Open source

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