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From innovation to funding, here's a list of books you should be reading if you're hoping to create or develop your startup.
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Create the Mold: Then Duplicate
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Shake Your Moneymaker
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Limitless Expansion Secrets: LES because we all want to work less
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The Financial Academy: The Ultimate Guide to Retiring Young, Rich and Predictably for the Next Generation (Life Level Up Book 1)
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Make Your Business Social: Engage Your Customers With Social Media
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Most Effective Marketing Investments
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Restore your Dreamland : 17 stories on the mysteries, wonders and science of sleep
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Zero to Million: Building Our First Growth Engine
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Scale for Success: Expert Insights into Growing Your Business
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The Content Fuel Framework: How to Generate Unlimited Story Ideas
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The Flight of a Wild Duck: An Improbable Journey Through Life and Technology
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Publicity on Steroids: How to Launch and Maximize a Dynamic Publicity Campaign
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Messed Up Like You: How ADHD and anxiety didn't stop me from becoming a successful entrepreneur
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Timeboxing: The Power of Doing One Thing at a Time
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Intention: The Surprising Psychology of High Performers
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Billion or Bust!: Growing a Tech Company in Texas
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The Creative Entrepreneur: A Guide to Building a Successful Creative Business from Industry Titans
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Small Business Growth Strategies, Self-Made Millionaire Journey
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Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success (3 Off the Tee, #2)
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Hidden Treasures Or Why Some Succeed While Others Fail (Illustrated) And Updated With Practical Success Tools
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Attaining Personal Freedom: Intimate Journeys of Courage
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Big Things Have Small Beginnings: Learn to Play in the Great Game
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Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?
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The Money Deception - What Banks & Governments Don't Want You to Know
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Creative Freelance Mastery: High income strategy, from your backyard!
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Win Work Politics as a Leader: A Strategy Guide
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Interplay: How To Become A Top Innovator By Cultivating Collaboration, Managing Risks With Smart Solutions And Transforming Your Business For Maximum Growth
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The Future of Leadership in the Age of AI: Preparing Your Leadership Skills for the AI-Shaped Future of Work
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Marin Ivezic (Goodreads Author)
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MOTIVATION DRIVES SUCCESS: Vol 1 let's get organized
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Change Confusion: Prepare, Support and Maintain (Carnsa Development Series Book 6)
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The Innovator's Spirit: Discover the Mindset to Pursue the Impossible
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Sex, Race, and Robots - How to Be Human in the Age of AI
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Marketing Secrets of the Ultra-Wealthy
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Innovating Through Chaos: The proven formula for launching unbeatable products during uncertain times
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Top Side Hustles From Home : 7 Simple, Proven ideas You Can Start Today With No Prior Experience
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Journey 2024: Redefining Enterprise Purpose
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Getting Naked: The Bare Necessities of Entrepreneurship and Start-ups
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Joel Primus (Goodreads Author)
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Wellness and Personal Development Tips For The Modern Entrepreneur
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The Goal Getter: 3 Simple Secrets To Achieve Massive Success In Your Life
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The Introvert's Startup Playbook - Predicting and Shaping Your Startup Future
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3 Off the Tee: Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace
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Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
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How To Attract Customers To Your Business And Keep Them Coming Back
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Corporate Undertaker: Business Lessons from the Dead and Dying
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7 Simple Strategies for Outstanding Leadership
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Maintaining a Minimalist Digital Life: Decluttering Your Creative Vision
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The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
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Online Business Startup: The entrepreneur's guide to launching a fast, lean and profitable online venture
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Robin Waite (Goodreads Author)
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God's Promises For You: Divine Promises and Affirmations For Your Success, All-round Prosperity and Total Well-being
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Rebound : How to Bounce Back and Disrupt Your Market with Strategic Innovation
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The Magnetic Wealth Code: Attract Abundance by Aligning Your Inner Vibrations
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Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works
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Take Charge: The Skills That Drive Professional Success
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Unlocking Your Wealth Gate: The Power of Belief in Manifesting Prosperity
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Become a Key Person of Influence: Five-Step Sequence to Becoming One of the Most Highly Valued and Highly Paid People in Your Industry
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Negotiate Like a CEO: What to Look Out for and How to Keep Yourself From Getting Screwed in Employment, Business and the Entrepreneurial World.
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The Mind as a Money Magnet: Transforming Your Thoughts into Financial Reality
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Feeling Into Fortune: How Emotions Ignite the Law of Attraction for Wealth
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Small Business Growth Strategies - Self-Made Millionaire Journey: From Failure to Success in Business
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Early Exits: Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors (But Maybe Not Venture Capitalists)
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Startup Business Strategies: Business Planning For Beginners
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Business Management for Startups: Business Expansion Strategies
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Financial Independence Journey: Starting a Business from Scratch
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The Ultimate Entrepreneur's Utopia: Startup Growth Hacking Techniques
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
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Startup Funding Hacks – Navigating Every Funding Stage: A Founder's Guide to Securing Startup Capital
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The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
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Business Management for Startups - Business Expansion Strategies: Growth Hacking for Businesses
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Startup Business Strategies - Business Planning For Beginners: Business Success Strategies
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The Introvert's Startup Playbook - Predicting and Shaping Your Startup Future: How to Build a Startup Quickly Without Wasting Resources
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The Ultimate Entrepreneur's Utopia- Startup Growth Hacking Techniques: Small Business Maestro
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Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry
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Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on Your Terms
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The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
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The Method Method: Seven Obsessions That Helped Our Scrappy Start-up Turn an Industry Upside Down
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Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow
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Pleased, but not Satisfied
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The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field
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Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
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Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur
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Rules For Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services
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Guy Kawasaki (Goodreads Author)
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Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)
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Slicing Pie - Funding Your Business Without Funds
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Mike Moyer (Goodreads Author)
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
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The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs
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Transformative Entrepreneurs: How Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, Muhammad Yunus, and Other Innovators Succeeded
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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
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Brad Feld (Goodreads Author)
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What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know: An Insider Reveals How to Get Smart Funding for Your Billion Dollar Idea
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Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking
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