Proof over permission
We teach you to earn traction from customers, not approval from gatekeepers.
Field guides for founders
Build with
what you have.
Ramen Press publishes practical field guides for the founder without an MBA, an investor, or a head start — the ones who ship anyway.
Why we exist
We publish books for founders who don’t have time for theory.
Most business books are written for the boardroom. Ours are written for the kitchen table — for the builder who can’t wait for permission, funding, or a two-year degree. Every title is a field guide: tested tactics you can run this week, from people who’ve actually done it. No filler, no gatekeepers, no theory you’ll never use.
Miguel Ángel Gómez Bartolomé Founding editor
The catalogue
Two field guides. Zero filler.
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Lean Startup: 101 Success Stories
Real-world validation of entrepreneurial ideas.
101 real companies — from Airbnb to Glovo — turned a hunch into a business with almost no resources. Each story shows the single experiment that proved the idea, in two or three pages.
- 101 case studies, each distilled to the one experiment that mattered.
- Rapid MVPs you can copy this week: landing pages, Wizard-of-Oz, surveys.
- The metrics that decide it: CAC, LTV, retention, and product–market fit.
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How to Start a Business Without an MBA
The AI-native founder's guide to validating, selling, and building without debt.
The playbook for building a company with the resources already in your hands — proof over permission, revenue over funding, AI as your unfair advantage.
- Validate an idea with real buyers before you build a thing.
- Sell before you're ready — and let revenue fund the rest.
- Put AI to work as your co-founder, analyst, and team.
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What we stand for
The imprint for the ramen-profitable founder.
Build with what you have
No MBA, no investors, no head start. Just leverage, AI, and the resources already in your hands.
Practical to the last page
Field guides, not theory. Every chapter ends where the real world begins — with something to do.
Start where you are.
New titles, tools, and the occasional dispatch from the trenches of building without a safety net — sent only when we have something worth your inbox.
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