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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 467 times as startups)
avg rating 4.14 — 421,709 ratings — published 2014
The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 374 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 375,744 ratings — published 2011
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 265 times as startups)
avg rating 4.19 — 115,831 ratings — published 2014
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as startups)
avg rating 4.04 — 39,808 ratings — published 2001
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as startups)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,814 ratings — published 2003
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,897 ratings — published 2012
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,904 ratings — published 2014
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,490 ratings — published 2011
Rework (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as startups)
avg rating 3.97 — 179,129 ratings — published 2010
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as startups)
avg rating 4.04 — 63,293 ratings — published 1997
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as startups)
avg rating 4.12 — 52,304 ratings — published 2013
Business Model Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as startups)
avg rating 4.21 — 60,867 ratings — published 2010
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 95 times as startups)
avg rating 4.36 — 14,984 ratings — published 2013
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as startups)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,285 ratings — published 2002
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
by (shelved 85 times as startups)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,377 ratings — published 2011
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)
by (shelved 74 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,746 ratings — published 2012
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as startups)
avg rating 4.12 — 314,539 ratings — published 2001
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as startups)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,559 ratings — published 2004
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as startups)
avg rating 3.89 — 72,472 ratings — published 2012
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as startups)
avg rating 4.40 — 291,199 ratings — published 2018
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as startups)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,257 ratings — published 2013
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as startups)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,835 ratings — published 2018
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as startups)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,133 ratings — published 2018
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as startups)
avg rating 4.22 — 26,423 ratings — published 2008
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as startups)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,873 ratings — published 2016
High Output Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as startups)
avg rating 4.29 — 22,295 ratings — published 1983
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as startups)
avg rating 4.01 — 91,615 ratings — published 2005
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as startups)
avg rating 4.45 — 391,962 ratings — published 2016
The E-myth Revisited
by (shelved 50 times as startups)
avg rating 4.06 — 101,166 ratings — published 1985
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as startups)
avg rating 4.04 — 77,479 ratings — published 2000
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as startups)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,381 ratings — published 2019
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as startups)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,673 ratings — published 2004
The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,532 ratings — published
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,144 ratings — published
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.26 — 34,794 ratings — published 2020
Measure What Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 3.97 — 39,288 ratings — published 2017
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.09 — 283,473 ratings — published 2009
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,232 ratings — published 2013
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup (Disciplined Entrepreneurship Series)
by (shelved 43 times as startups)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,478 ratings — published 2013
Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as startups)
avg rating 4.15 — 943 ratings — published 2017
Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as startups)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,392 ratings — published 2018
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as startups)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,900 ratings — published 2013
Startup CEO: How to Build a Company to Success (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as startups)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,410 ratings — published 2013
Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as startups)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,595 ratings — published 2017
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as startups)
avg rating 3.91 — 17,235 ratings — published 2016
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as startups)
avg rating 3.90 — 344,496 ratings — published 2007
The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as startups)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,105 ratings — published 2012
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as startups)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,604 ratings — published 1994
The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as startups)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,986 ratings — published
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as startups)
avg rating 4.20 — 106,109 ratings — published 2014
“If you aren’t embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.”
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“Investors are people with more money than time.
Employees are people with more time than money.
Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-betweens.
Startups are business experiments performed with other people’s money.
Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it.”
“Company culture is what goes without saying.
There are no real rules, only laws.
Success forgives all sins.
People who leak to you, leak about you.
Meritocracy is the propaganda we use to bless the charade.
Greed and vanity are the twin engines of bourgeois society.
Most managers are incompetent and maintain their jobs via inertia and politics.
Lawsuits are merely expensive feints in a well-scripted conflict narrative between corporate entities.
Capitalism is an amoral farce in which every player—investor, employee, entrepreneur, consumer—is complicit.”
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Employees are people with more time than money.
Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-betweens.
Startups are business experiments performed with other people’s money.
Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it.”
“Company culture is what goes without saying.
There are no real rules, only laws.
Success forgives all sins.
People who leak to you, leak about you.
Meritocracy is the propaganda we use to bless the charade.
Greed and vanity are the twin engines of bourgeois society.
Most managers are incompetent and maintain their jobs via inertia and politics.
Lawsuits are merely expensive feints in a well-scripted conflict narrative between corporate entities.
Capitalism is an amoral farce in which every player—investor, employee, entrepreneur, consumer—is complicit.”
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
