Lean B2B
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Lean B2B

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« Lean B2B is filled with rock-solid advice for technology entrepreneurs who want a rapid-growth trajectory. Read it to increase your certainty and your success rate. » - Jill Konrath, Author of SNAP SELLING and Selling to Big Companies

Thousands of entrepreneurs and innovators use Lean B2B to quickly find traction in the market.

Packed with more than 20 case studies, Lean B2B consolidates the best thinking around Business-to-Business (B2B) customer development to help entrepreneurs focus on the right actions each step of the way, leaving as little as possible to luck.

The book helps:

  • Assess the market potential of opportunities to find the right opportunity for your team
  • Find early adopters, quickly establish credibility and convince business stakeholders to work with you
  • Find and prioritize business problems in corporations and identify the stakeholders with the power to influence a purchase decision
  • Create a minimum viable product and a compelling offer, validate a solution and evaluate whether your team has found product-market fit
  • Identify and avoid common challenges faced by entrepreneurs and learn ninja techniques to speed up product-market validation

« The book will pay itself off in the first couple of pages! » - Ben Sardella, Co-Founder, Datanyze, AA-ISP Top 25 Most Influential

***** 86% of Readers Rated it 5-Stars *****

« Lean B2B nails the key to being nimble and iterative in the complex, drawn-out world of B2B entrepreneurship: relationships. It captures how I've been running my own Lean B2B practice for years and makes it accessible to anyone. » - Brian Gladstein, CEO and Founder, Explorics

« This is a must read for every B2B entrepreneur, SaaS creator or consultant and business school student. It's the kind of book you don't read once, you go back to it on a regular basis. » - Carmen Gerea, CEO & Co-founder, UsabilityChefs

« Probably the most slept on book in the Lean startup market right now.... There is no sugarcoating here. Garbugli tells you exactly what needs to happen and how to make it happen...literally holds your hand and spells it out. I was really impressed with the overall depth and advice presented. » - AJ, B2B Entrepreneur

« The book I read of which I have learned the most. » - Etienne Thouin, Founder and CTO, SQLNext Software

« I have highlighted and scribbled notes on literally every page. In a nutshell , "Lean B2B" has 245 pages of tight "gotchas" from the trenches which can steer your startup towards the right orbit ! » - Derick Jose, Co-Founder, Flutura

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Étienne Garbugli
Étienne Garbugli

Etienne works at the intersection of Technology, Product Design and Marketing. He's a 3-time Startup Founder (Flagback, HireVoice and Highlights), a 5-time entrepreneur and a recognized UX research expert.

Over the last ten years, he has validated no less than 25 businesses for clients and personal projects, met hundreds of entrepreneurs, ran countless tests, and tried all existing methodologies to learn how to cheaply validate business ideas. Etienne is an entrepreneur and world-traveller.

Reader Testimonials

Carmen Gerea
Carmen Gerea

CEO & Co-founder, UsabilityChefs

Lean B2B is definitively one of the most inspiring books I have read so far covering the B2B market. This is a must read for every B2B entrepreneur, Saas creator or consultant and business school student. It's the kind of book you don't read once, you go back to it on a regular basis.

Dillon Forrest
Dillon Forrest

Co-Founder, RankScience

I learned B2B the hard way, making mistakes following B2C tactics tweaking them to make them work in B2B. All these lessons were in the book. I could have just read this book and saved myself months of runway and immeasurable frustration and anxiety.

Zakir Hemraj
Zakir Hemraj

CEO & Co-Founder, Loopio

Lean B2B gives and excellent framework for navigating these early conversations, especially when you have no experience building a business from scratch. Our team especially loved the bit in the book about segmenting your buyer personas into technical, experience, and ROI buyers... but that's just one of many golden nuggets in here. If you're building a B2B software company, I would highly recommend reading this book before you write a line of code!

Daniel Almodovar
Daniel Almodovar

Innovation Partner, Altran

Having read most of the classic books on Lean Startup (Eric Ries, Steve Blank, Alex Osterwalder, Ash Maurya, Cindy Alvarez, etc.), finding "Lean B2B" and absorbing its content has been essential to understand and/or confirm (since I’ve worked in a large corporate myself) what the differences in the B2B space is.

Alan Brannigan
Alan Brannigan

CEO & Co-Founder, Jupl

This book gives clearly maps out a strategy for validating problem market fit within large organisations. It certainly aligns with my own experiences to date. A must read for any entrepreneur embarking on a B2B startup.

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