282 books
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427 voters
Startup Books
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The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 712 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 370,423 ratings — published 2011
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 648 times as startup)
avg rating 4.14 — 411,906 ratings — published 2014
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 377 times as startup)
avg rating 4.19 — 112,918 ratings — published 2014
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,878 ratings — published 2012
Rework (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as startup)
avg rating 3.97 — 177,354 ratings — published 2010
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as startup)
avg rating 3.89 — 71,748 ratings — published 2012
Business Model Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as startup)
avg rating 4.21 — 59,921 ratings — published 2010
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as startup)
avg rating 4.04 — 39,134 ratings — published 2001
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as startup)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,773 ratings — published 2003
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,866 ratings — published 2014
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as startup)
avg rating 4.12 — 51,278 ratings — published 2013
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as startup)
avg rating 4.03 — 62,008 ratings — published 1997
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as startup)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,823 ratings — published 2002
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 138 times as startup)
avg rating 4.36 — 14,422 ratings — published 2013
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,427 ratings — published 2011
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
by (shelved 124 times as startup)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,363 ratings — published 2011
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)
by (shelved 123 times as startup)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,174 ratings — published 2012
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as startup)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,718 ratings — published 2016
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as startup)
avg rating 4.12 — 305,506 ratings — published 2001
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as startup)
avg rating 3.90 — 29,418 ratings — published 2004
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as startup)
avg rating 4.40 — 286,476 ratings — published 2018
The E-myth Revisited (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 98 times as startup)
avg rating 4.06 — 99,082 ratings — published 1985
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as startup)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,116 ratings — published 2008
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,242 ratings — published 2013
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as startup)
avg rating 4.01 — 89,966 ratings — published 2005
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as startup)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,819 ratings — published 2018
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as startup)
avg rating 4.45 — 382,406 ratings — published 2016
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as startup)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,076 ratings — published 2018
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup (Disciplined Entrepreneurship Series)
by (shelved 73 times as startup)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,447 ratings — published 2013
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
by (shelved 72 times as startup)
avg rating 3.91 — 339,928 ratings — published 2007
The Art of Startup Fundraising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as startup)
avg rating 4.02 — 819 ratings — published 2016
High Output Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as startup)
avg rating 4.30 — 21,867 ratings — published 1983
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as startup)
avg rating 4.09 — 277,301 ratings — published 2009
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as startup)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,408 ratings — published 1994
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as startup)
avg rating 4.04 — 76,948 ratings — published 2000
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want
by (shelved 64 times as startup)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,205 ratings — published 2013
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as startup)
avg rating 4.20 — 104,729 ratings — published 2014
Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,551 ratings — published 2017
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as startup)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,380,540 ratings — published 2011
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as startup)
avg rating 4.12 — 452,254 ratings — published 2015
Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as startup)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,328 ratings — published 2010
Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as startup)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,375 ratings — published 2018
Startup CEO: How to Build a Company to Success (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as startup)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,416 ratings — published 2013
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as startup)
avg rating 4.26 — 34,097 ratings — published 2020
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as startup)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,297 ratings — published 2019
Measure What Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as startup)
avg rating 3.97 — 38,487 ratings — published 2017
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as startup)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,824 ratings — published
The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as startup)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,886 ratings — published
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as startup)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,308 ratings — published 2013
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as startup)
avg rating 3.98 — 100,882 ratings — published 2006
“Suffer with patience, earn the credit. Live with intent, spend it wisely.”
― Startup Illness: A Story of Burnout, Ambition, and Peace.
― Startup Illness: A Story of Burnout, Ambition, and Peace.
“Nobody wants a sales pitch. So instead of trying a hard sell, focus on telling a story that captivates your audience by painting a vivid picture of your vision. When you get good at storytelling, people want to be part of that story, and they’ll want to help others become part of that story too.”
― StartUp Saboteurs: How Incompetence, Ego, and Small Thinking Prevent True Wealth Creation
― StartUp Saboteurs: How Incompetence, Ego, and Small Thinking Prevent True Wealth Creation












