What books should entrepreneurs read ?

A list of the best books for entrepreneurs, found in this topic:

Start Ups/Business:

• The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs by Kevin Johnson
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
• The 7 Day Startup: You Don't Learn Until You Launch by Dan Norris
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
• Platform Scale: How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment by Sangeet Paul Choudary
• TOP 101 Growth Hacks: The best growth hacking ideas that you can put into practice right away by Aladdin Happy
• The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
• Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours by Salim Ismail
• Startup Idea Action Plan: Validate Your Startup And Get Customers in 7 Days, When All You Have is a Business Idea by Ryan Mulvihill
• The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank
• ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever by Jason Fried
• Craft Business Power: 15 Days To A Profitable Online Craft Business by Cinnamon Miles
• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg
• Startup Growth Engines: Case Studies of How Today's Most Successful Startups Unlock Extraordinary Growth by Sean Ellis
• The Magic of Thinking Big
• Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim
• The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
• Good to Great by James Collins
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steven Blank
• Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't by Nate Silver
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Shwartz
• Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Second Edition by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, et al.
• The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
• Rework by David Heinemeier Hansson
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
• The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
• Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
• The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
• The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
• Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Kenneth Cukier
• The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression! by Debra Fine
• The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
• The Thank You Economy: Gary Vaynerchuk by Gary Vaynerchuk
• Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
• Where Good Ideas Come From: Steven Johnson by Steven Johnson
• The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably by Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
• Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children: John Wood by John Wood
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries, Laura Ries
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
• The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan KimRenee Mauborgne
• Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander OsterwalderYves Pigneur
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
• Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
• Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
• The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. ChristensenMichael E. Raynor
• Warfighting by U. S. Marine Corps Staff
• Get Back in the Box: How Being Great at What You Do Is Great for Business by Douglas Rushkoff
• Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta
• The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies by Jonathan A. KneeBruce C. GreenwaldAva Seave
• Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know by Randall Stross
• Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior by Geoffrey Miller
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter ThielBlake Masters
• Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking by Andy Sernovitz
• Guerilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business by Jay Conrad Levinson
• The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
• Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Carl ShapiroHal R. Varian
• Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup by Brad FeldDavid Cohen
• The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen
• The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Brant CooperPatrick Vlaskovits
• Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad FeldJason Mendelson
• The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living by Randy Komisar
• The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle
• The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer by Michael Moritz
• The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston
• Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) by Steve Krug
• Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster
• The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Second Edition by Jesse Schell
• Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence by Daniel GolemanRichard BoyatzisAnnie McKee
• The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America, Release 2.0 by Thomas L. Friedman
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials) by Jim CollinsJerry I. Porras
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins
• Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins
• How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins
• How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition by David Bornstein
• Essential Creativity in the Classroom: Inspiring Kids by Kaye Thorne
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini
• The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLeanPeter Elkind
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip HeathDan Heath
• Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up by Patricia Ryan Madson
• The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
• Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition (Collins Business Essentials) by Geoffrey A. Moore
• Inside the Tornado: Strategies for Developing, Leveraging, and Surviving Hypergrowth Markets (Collins Business Essentials) by Geoffrey A. Moore
• Marketing High Technology by William H. Davidow
• The Breakthrough Imperative by Mark GottfredsonSteve Schaubert
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter
• The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
• The 33 Strategies of War (Joost Elffers Books) by Robert Greene
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay
• Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Term Sheets & Valuations (Bigwig Briefs) by Alex WilmerdingAspatore Books StaffAspatore.com
• Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn
• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
• The SPEED of TRUST: The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen M .R. Covey
• Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength by Diana McLain Smith
• CustomerCentric Selling, Second Edition by Michael T. BosworthJohn R. HollandFrank Visgatis
• Answering the Ultimate Question: How Net Promoter Can Transform Your Business by Richard OwenLaura L. Brooks PhD
• Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry by Marc BenioffCarlye Adler
• The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer by Jeffrey Liker
• Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan SenorSaul Singer
• The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich
• The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Norman
• Think and Grow Rich: The Original 1937 Unedited Edition by Napoleon Hill
• High-tech Ventures: The Guide For Entrepreneurial Success by C. Gordon BellJohn E. Mcnamara
• Delivering Profitable Value : A Revolutionary Framework to Accelerate Growth, Generate Wealth, and Rediscover the Heart of Business by Mike Lanning
• The Stand by Stephen King
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition by Thomas S. Kuhn
• The Silicon Boys: And Their Valley of Dreams by David A. Kaplan
• Essentials of Entrepreneurship : What it Takes to Create Successful Enterprises by TiE: The Indus EntrepreneursTiE
• The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California by Peri H. Pakroo J.D.
• Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown
• The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
• The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business by Tara Hunt
• High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars by Charles Ferguson
• Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith FerrazziTahl Raz
• Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition by C. K. Prahalad
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) by Tom DeMarcoTim Lister
• Naked in the Boardroom: A CEO Bares Her Secrets So You Can Transform Your Career by Robin Wolaner
• By William C. Taylor: Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself by -William Morrow-
• What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World by Tina Seelig
• Get Noticed by Marcus TaylorRob Lawrence
• Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm by Verne Harnish
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al RiesLaura Ries
• The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) by Noam Wasserman
• Business: The Ultimate Resource by Editors Of Perseus PublishingPerseus PublishingDaniel Goleman
• Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead: The Ten Most Innovative Lessons from a Long, Strange Trip by Barry Barnes
• Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution by Pieter Hintjens
• The Essence of the Church: A Community Created by the Spirit by Craig Van Gelder
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions) by Benjamin Franklin
• Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks
• Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?: Seth Godin by Seth Godin
• How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers: The Story of Success: Malcolm Gladwell by Malcolm Gladwell
• What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Thomas Ferriss
• The Success Principles(TM): How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How by Daniel Coyle
• How I Made My First Million on the Internet and How You Can Too!: The Complete Insider's Guide to Making Millions with Your Internet Business by Ewen Chia
• SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Litt
• Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs eBook by Norm Brodsky
• Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto by Adam Werbach
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
• Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change by Louis V., Jr. Gerstner
• The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization by Tom Kelley
• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem--and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• The Innovator's Dilemma : The Revolutionary National Bestseller That Changed The Way We Do Business by clayton m. christensen
• The Paypal Wars : Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth by Eric M. Jackson
• Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
• Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World by Tyler Cowen
• One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com by Richard Brandt
• Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
• The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic by Dan Ariely
• Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
• Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart by Ian Ayres by Ian Ayres
• The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave