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The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 731 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 377,183 ratings — published 2011
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 669 times as startup)
avg rating 4.14 — 424,734 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 386 times as startup)
avg rating 4.19 — 117,007 ratings — published 2014
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as startup)
avg rating 4.10 — 12,907 ratings — published 2012
Rework (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as startup)
avg rating 3.98 — 180,045 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 181 times as startup)
avg rating 3.89 — 72,657 ratings — published 2012
Business Model Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as startup)
avg rating 4.21 — 61,331 ratings — published 2010
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,917 ratings — published 2014
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as startup)
avg rating 4.04 — 39,823 ratings — published 2001
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as startup)
avg rating 4.12 — 52,684 ratings — published 2013
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as startup)
avg rating 4.04 — 63,764 ratings — published 1997
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as startup)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,810 ratings — published 2003
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as startup)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,553 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 150 times as startup)
avg rating 4.36 — 15,151 ratings — published 2013
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,506 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 128 times as startup)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,385 ratings — published 2011
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)
by (shelved 124 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,717 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 — 23,924 ratings — published 2016
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as startup)
avg rating 4.12 — 317,064 ratings — published 2001
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as startup)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,562 ratings — published 2004
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as startup)
avg rating 4.40 — 295,703 ratings — published 2018
The E-myth Revisited
by (shelved 102 times as startup)
avg rating 4.07 — 102,279 ratings — published 1985
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as startup)
avg rating 4.22 — 26,497 ratings — published 2008
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as startup)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,263 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 — 92,091 ratings — published 2005
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as startup)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,836 ratings — published 2018
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as startup)
avg rating 4.45 — 394,807 ratings — published 2016
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as startup)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,147 ratings — published 2018
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup (Disciplined Entrepreneurship Series)
by (shelved 75 times as startup)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,483 ratings — published 2013
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
by (shelved 71 times as startup)
avg rating 3.90 — 346,127 ratings — published 2007
High Output Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as startup)
avg rating 4.29 — 22,466 ratings — published 1983
The Art of Startup Fundraising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as startup)
avg rating 4.02 — 819 ratings — published 2016
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as startup)
avg rating 4.09 — 285,621 ratings — published 2009
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as startup)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,918 ratings — published 1994
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as startup)
avg rating 4.04 — 78,012 ratings — published 2000
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want
by (shelved 65 times as startup)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,248 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 — 106,480 ratings — published 2014
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as startup)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,399,277 ratings — published 2011
Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as startup)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,616 ratings — published 2017
Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as startup)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,336 ratings — published 2010
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as startup)
avg rating 4.26 — 35,023 ratings — published 2020
Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as startup)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,396 ratings — published 2018
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 460,379 ratings — published 2015
Startup CEO: How to Build a Company to Success (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as startup)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,410 ratings — published 2013
The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects ― A Venture Capitalist on Building Startups (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as startup)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,021 ratings — published
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as startup)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,219 ratings — published
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as startup)
avg rating 3.98 — 102,317 ratings — published 2006
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as startup)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,393 ratings — published 2019
Measure What Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as startup)
avg rating 3.98 — 40,039 ratings — published 2017
The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as startup)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,690 ratings — published 2015
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