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This is a list of the books that heavily influenced my own book, "Hello, Startup". If you are interested in building a tech company, this is your reading list.
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The Art of Startup Fundraising
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Alejandro Cremades (Goodreads Author)
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million
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Cliff Lerner (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 927 ratings
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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Martin Kleppmann (Goodreads Author)
4.70 avg rating — 10,180 ratings
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
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Ben Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 106,931 ratings
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Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
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The Lean Startup
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Eric Ries (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 359,585 ratings
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Steve Jobs: The Unauthorized Autobiography
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J.T. Owens (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
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Steve Krug (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 30,465 ratings
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The Startup Owner's Manual Strategy Guide
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4.28 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Rework
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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4.23 avg rating — 30,461 ratings
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
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3.95 avg rating — 16,689 ratings
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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4.47 avg rating — 4,835 ratings
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
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4.04 avg rating — 59,600 ratings
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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 9,450 ratings
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Hack the Buyer Brain
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4.15 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Seven Web Frameworks in Seven Weeks
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3.62 avg rating — 39 ratings
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High Output Management
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4.30 avg rating — 20,936 ratings
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
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Tom DeMarco (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 9,882 ratings
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The Psychology of Computer Programming
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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4.36 avg rating — 23,154 ratings
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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
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Geoffrey A. Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 30,958 ratings
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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4.03 avg rating — 37,773 ratings
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 124,357 ratings
score: 147,
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The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
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Reid Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 10,563 ratings
score: 144,
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The Design of Everyday Things
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score: 138,
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 853,259 ratings
score: 135,
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
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Andy Hunt (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 23,702 ratings
score: 131,
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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4.01 avg rating — 14,931 ratings
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Hello Startup. A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams
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Yevgeniy Brikman (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 389 ratings
score: 100,
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The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable
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Reinventing Dell
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Valley Speak: Deciphering the Jargon of Silicon Valley
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Rochelle Kopp (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Don't Hire a Software Developer Until You Read this Book: The software survival guide for tech startups & entrepreneurs
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K.N. Kukoyi (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Nail It Then Scale It
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99 Creative WOWs Words of Wisdom for Business
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A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success and Reckoning
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Stephan Paternot (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Traversing the Traction Gap
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Bruce Cleveland (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Augmented Mind: AI, Superhumans and the Next Economic Revolution
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Blow It Up: 21 Ways Your Startup Can Shake Up An Industry And Change The World
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CLARITY – The Secret to Success: Designing the Foundation of a Profitable Management System
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy
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Developing A Wealthy Mindset
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Intention: The Surprising Psychology of High Performers
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Mike James Ross (Goodreads Author)
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 15,440 ratings
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Unleash the POWER of Wordpress: The Smart Guide to WordPress for Beginners
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4.57 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
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Gabriel Weinberg (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 9,743 ratings
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Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas
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3.78 avg rating — 553 ratings
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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Austin Kleon (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 329,510 ratings
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The Non-Designer's Design Book
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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
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David Kadavy (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 871 ratings
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The Guide To Minimum Viable Products: A Master Collection of Frameworks, Expert Opinions, and Examples
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Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement
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The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
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Scott Berkun (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 2,708 ratings
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Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
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Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts
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Thomas Eisenmann (Editor)
3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
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The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
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The Essential Drucker
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Creative Entrepreneurship
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Blake Masters (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
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NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence
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Viral Loop: The Power of Pass-it-on
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Valve: Handbook for New Employees
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
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Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (The XP Series)
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
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Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban
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Henrik Kniberg (Goodreads Author)
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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
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Gayle Laakmann McDowell (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 6,892 ratings
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Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
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Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
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Andy Oram (Editor)
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Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
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Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
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Continuous delivery
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Jez Humble (Goodreads Author)
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
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How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business
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JavaScript: The Good Parts
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The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
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Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages
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Bird by Bird
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Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)
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Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job
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The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
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Guy Kawasaki (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 29,227 ratings
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