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Great Business Book. In my opinion, it continues the Lean Startup Approach, which means a) Do less than ideal plan b) Test c) Learn and Improve. But with Blitzscaling methodology, all these in tremendous Speed.Blitzscaling as term comes from German "BlitzKrieg" in second world war, where speed was the most important factor for Germans.Now in Technology and Business, Speed is also the most important factor. Blitzscaling means to Sacrifice Efficiency for Speed without waiting to achieve certainty
I've started reading this one thanks to some recommendations, but I was more than skeptical - my initial impression was that author tries to "sell" me some wonderful scaling framework, silver-bullet of rapid growth, hype-generating bullshit peptalk conveniently split into few non-specific rules. This impression lasted until 15%-20% of the book. Fortunately, I've prevailed & read further ...... and now I can confirm that there's actually a lot of valuable content in these pages. A lot of good poi...
Blitzscaling is a book that I believe every entrepreneur should read today. It observes how speed and uncertainty are the new stability in the era of new emerging technologies and that those who act on that and accept it can scale their business in a faster, efficient and promising way. Good read, and amazing case studies and tips on how to implement it in your own business.
This book aims to be a text book of sorts for running a modern tech business. Blitzscaling is not an original framework or a specific technique like the 'Lean Start-up' or 'Hooked' but an examination of various aspects of growing a tech business under an ambiguous name. Most of the actual content is examples from Reid's podcasts, requoting of famous blogs or other well known material already in the public domain. Nothing original or ground breaking here. Nothing factually incorrect or oversimpli...
My overall feeling is that I've learned a lot from this book. Although, I can't point specifically what.In the end, most blitzscalling challenges and tools are mostly useful for startup in general. Specially those with a good amount of funding. Hoffman ends up focusing a lot on three pillars : speed, size and people. Which makes lots of sense. And how they will end up building and breaking your company along the way. In a, hopefully, virtuous cycle.In the end he lost me when started incentivisin...
Clearly my best read of 2018. Will recommend this to any entrepreneur.
In some ways a deeper dive into some of the ideas in Zero to One. Drier, longer, and overall harder to get through than Zero to One, but still deserving of four stars because of how much practical content is in here.
Very informative book for someone who deeply questions how hiper growth companies achieve and survive such tumultuous rises.The only defect is that as with many Silicon Valley and now Crypto wisdom, there can be a bit of success blindness in the stories. Which makes authors eager to point out success causes, relatable to them, hyping them a bit more than the credit they might deserve.
Had higher hopes from the book given it's written by Reid Hoffman but this turned out to be just okay. The only thing this book has helped me is in changing the mindset on what it takes to blitzscale a company. To effectively blitzscale, you have to move from efficient data driven decision making thought process to inefficient intuition driven risky informed bets.
“blitzscaling is prioritizing speed over efficiency in the face of uncertainty.” Based on recommendations I had high expectations for this book and its not a bad book but I was not very impressed as I've encountered similar recommendations already in several other books. I saw many similar topics with Platform Revolution/Lean Startup and company examples were mainly based on LinkedIn, Paypal, Netflix, Airbnb, Tencent (Weechat), Amazon and Apple which are already well covered in their respective
This book is the fastest MBA of today's times that I could ever do. It clears the "mystic secret" of what the Silicon Valley guys are really doing differently than us. Literally, every page has a big deal of a lesson. But most of all it is the lightening pace (even over efficiency, but not ethics!) that is the need of the hour that's impressed and challenged me.I look forward to thinking and mulling over this book for months to come, and apply it to my own business. Or hey, shall I be compressin...
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I'm not sure how I feel about these books that try to make a point without any sort of comprehensive study, just some personal anecdotes of the author's. Granted, the author giving the personal anecdotes is one of the biggest success stories out there. This also seems to apply only to people trying to make their businesses go viral, so it might not be applicable to B2B companies, or local restaurants, etc. To be fair, he addresses this (around halfway through the
The third book by tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Reid Hoffmann, is a primer on how massively valuable businesses are built. The technique that many big companies in the internet age have used to grow in value is termed "blitzscaling" - a completely made up term, that may become popular parlance as the book gains popularity.Well written with lots of anecdotes forged from both personal experience and obvious friendships with some of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley, Blitzsca...
This book is a must read for people in any role in a fast-growing startup. It looks like Reid spent a year in our company and wrote the book. It has really helped me understand the changes the company, my role and myself were going through.
Blitzscaling is to achieve a critical mass that confers a lasting competitive advantage. If taking on additional cost and uncertainty doesn't actually confer an advantage, it's better to follow the traditional rules of business (at least for the time being) so that when blitzscaling does become appropriate, your organization can be efficient, well maintained, and more ready to scale.Because blitzscaling is - by definition - an inefficient use of capital, it only makes sense when speed and moment...