Founding a startup? Here is a hand-picked list of transformational books for you.
I’ll add more to the list if I bump into other interesting resources.
- Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
- How To Win Friends and Influence People
- Influence: Science and Practice
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century (Think and Grow Rich Series)]
- Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
That’s all for now. Good luck with your startup.
And, until next time… May the source be with you 🦄.
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