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Startups Books
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 460 times as startups)
avg rating 4.14 — 412,381 ratings — published 2014
The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 370 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 370,643 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 261 times as startups)
avg rating 4.19 — 113,006 ratings — published 2014
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as startups)
avg rating 4.04 — 39,167 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 — 16,775 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 — 12,880 ratings — published 2012
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,867 ratings — published 2014
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,430 ratings — published 2011
Rework (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as startups)
avg rating 3.97 — 177,413 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 — 62,056 ratings — published 1997
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as startups)
avg rating 4.12 — 51,322 ratings — published 2013
Business Model Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as startups)
avg rating 4.21 — 59,946 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 — 14,457 ratings — published 2013
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as startups)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,840 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 — 5,365 ratings — published 2011
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as startups)
avg rating 4.12 — 305,912 ratings — published 2001
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)
by (shelved 73 times as startups)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,203 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 3.90 — 29,420 ratings — published 2004
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as startups)
avg rating 4.40 — 286,621 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 — 71,771 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 — 2,820 ratings — published 2018
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as startups)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,245 ratings — published 2013
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as startups)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,081 ratings — published 2018
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as startups)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,129 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 — 23,726 ratings — published 2016
High Output Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as startups)
avg rating 4.30 — 21,885 ratings — published 1983
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as startups)
avg rating 4.45 — 382,824 ratings — published 2016
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as startups)
avg rating 4.04 — 76,958 ratings — published 2000
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as startups)
avg rating 4.01 — 90,024 ratings — published 2005
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as startups)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,301 ratings — published 2019
The E-myth Revisited (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 49 times as startups)
avg rating 4.06 — 99,136 ratings — published 1985
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as startups)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,635 ratings — published 2004
The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,499 ratings — published
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,840 ratings — published
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.26 — 34,130 ratings — published 2020
Measure What Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 3.97 — 38,509 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 — 277,543 ratings — published 2009
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,205 ratings — published 2013
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup (Disciplined Entrepreneurship Series)
by (shelved 43 times as startups)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,449 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 — 942 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 — 2,376 ratings — published 2018
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as startups)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,333 ratings — published 2013
Startup CEO: How to Build a Company to Success (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as startups)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,416 ratings — published 2013
Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,556 ratings — published 2017
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as startups)
avg rating 3.91 — 17,197 ratings — published 2016
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as startups)
avg rating 3.91 — 340,091 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 — 11,014 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 — 104,781 ratings — published 2014
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as startups)
avg rating 3.98 — 100,920 ratings — published 2006
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as startups)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,462 ratings — published 1994
“The world’s most deadly fluff is: “I would definitely buy that.” It just sounds so concrete. As a founder, you desperately want to believe it’s money in the bank. But folks are wildly optimistic about what they would do in the future. They’re always more positive, excited, and willing to pay in the imagined future than they are once it arrives.”
― The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
― The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you












