Great Books for Entrepreneurs

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ReWork

"Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founders of software company 37signals, follow a simpler-is-better philosophy. This extends fr...

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The Lean Startup

Outlines a revisionist approach to management while arguing against common perceptions about the inevitability of startup failures, explaini...

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Major New York Times bestseller Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012 Selected by the New York Times Book Revie...

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Drive

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people—at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink (author of To...

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The Tipping Point

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as...

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The Origin of Wealth

In theOrigin of Wealth, Eric Beinhocker offers a thorough and convincing new way to think about economic growth and business management. The...

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk is the most daring entrepreneur of our time There are few industrialists in history who could match Elon Musk's relentless drive a...

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Steve Jobs

Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors, and colleagues to offe...

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Linchpin

"The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions t...

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one. In...

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In the Plex

Written with full cooperation from top management, including cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this is the inside story behind Google, ...

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The Facebook Effect

In August, 2008, Facebook signed up its 100 millionth user. Eight months later its 200 millionth user signed up. Today it is closing in on 2...

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Hooked

How do successful companies create products people can’t put down? Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What...

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The Art of the Start 2.0

Fully revised and expanded for the first time in a decade, The Art of the Start 2.0 is Guy Kawasaki's classic bestselling guide to launching...