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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 463 times as startups)
avg rating 4.14 — 416,498 ratings — published 2014
The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 372 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 372,693 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 262 times as startups)
avg rating 4.19 — 113,976 ratings — published 2014
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as startups)
avg rating 4.04 — 39,472 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 — 16,797 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 — 12,881 ratings — published 2012
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,887 ratings — published 2014
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,471 ratings — published 2011
Rework (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as startups)
avg rating 3.97 — 177,897 ratings — published 2010
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as startups)
avg rating 4.03 — 62,452 ratings — published 1997
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as startups)
avg rating 4.12 — 51,722 ratings — published 2013
Business Model Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as startups)
avg rating 4.21 — 60,206 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 94 times as startups)
avg rating 4.36 — 14,685 ratings — published 2013
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as startups)
avg rating 4.03 — 31,995 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 — 5,372 ratings — published 2011
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as startups)
avg rating 4.12 — 309,791 ratings — published 2001
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)
by (shelved 73 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,429 ratings — published 2012
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 — 29,491 ratings — published 2004
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as startups)
avg rating 4.40 — 288,134 ratings — published 2018
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as startups)
avg rating 3.89 — 72,021 ratings — published 2012
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as startups)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,829 ratings — published 2018
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as startups)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,252 ratings — published 2013
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as startups)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,103 ratings — published 2018
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as startups)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,261 ratings — published 2008
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as startups)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,802 ratings — published 2016
High Output Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as startups)
avg rating 4.30 — 22,051 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 — 90,579 ratings — published 2005
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as startups)
avg rating 4.45 — 386,714 ratings — published 2016
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as startups)
avg rating 4.04 — 77,073 ratings — published 2000
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as startups)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,339 ratings — published 2019
The E-myth Revisited (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 49 times as startups)
avg rating 4.06 — 99,760 ratings — published 1985
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as startups)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,655 ratings — published 2004
The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,504 ratings — published
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,001 ratings — published
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.26 — 34,430 ratings — published 2020
Measure What Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 3.97 — 38,721 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 — 280,048 ratings — published 2009
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,213 ratings — published 2013
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup (Disciplined Entrepreneurship Series)
by (shelved 43 times as startups)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,462 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 4.16 — 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 — 2,384 ratings — published 2018
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as startups)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,570 ratings — published 2013
Startup CEO: How to Build a Company to Success (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as startups)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,412 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 — 5,572 ratings — published 2017
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as startups)
avg rating 3.91 — 17,215 ratings — published 2016
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as startups)
avg rating 3.90 — 341,828 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 — 11,045 ratings — published 2012
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 — 105,263 ratings — published 2014
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as startups)
avg rating 3.98 — 101,351 ratings — published 2006
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as startups)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,876 ratings — published 1994
“Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
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“Mistakes are works of art. You don’t need to create your own, study the masterpieces others left behind, be inspired, and learn.”
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