The Science of Growth: How Facebook Beat Friendster-and How Nine Other Startups Left the Rest in the Dust

In The Science of Growth, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon professor Sean Ammirati tackles the dos and don'ts of successful scaling, by looking at the startups that have won—and lost.

The lean entrepreneurship movement has captivated Silicon Valley and entrepreneurs across the country. It's provided an agile framework to develop the right product solution for a given target market, and is now used by almost every fledgling company to do just that.

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