Before Starting a Startup...read these
Top 10 Before Starting a Startup...read these
: The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, The 4-Hour Workweek, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, Business Model Generation, Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup, Intellectual Property, The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Author | Eric Ries |
ISBN | 0307887898 |
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions...
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Author | Peter Thiel |
ISBN | 0804139296 |
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those...
Author | Timothy Ferriss |
ISBN | 0307353133 |
What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer: "I race motorcycles in Europe." "I ski in the Andes." "I scuba dive in Panama." "I dance tango in Buenos Aires." He has spent more than five...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Author | Stephen R. Covey |
ISBN | 0743269519 |
When Stephen Covey first released The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, the book became an instant rage because people suddenly got up and took notice that their lives were headed off in the wrong direction; and more than that, they realized that there were so many simple things they could do in...
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Author | Ben Horowitz |
ISBN | 0062273205 |
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 The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs,...
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Author | David Allen |
ISBN | 0142000280 |
In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our...
Business Model Generation
Author | Alexander Osterwalder |
ISBN | 2839906171 |
Business Model Generation is a practical, inspiring handbook for anyone striving to improve a business model or craft a new one.
1) Change the way you think about business models
Business Model Generation will teach you powerful and practical innovation techniques used today by...
Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
Author | David G. Cohen |
ISBN | 0470948795 |
Practical advice from some of today's top early stage investors and entrepreneurs TechStars is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator with operations in three U.S. cities. Once a year in each city, it funds about ten Internet startups with a small amount of capital and surrounds them with around...
Author | Alexandre Montagu |
ISBN | 0314604987 |
Ownership of intellectual property is paramount in today’s technology-driven markets and leaving your business unprotected can be perilous—and expensive. In a monumental verdict, a jury recently awarded Apple $1.05 billion dollars in damages, determining that Samsung copied the technology...
The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success
Author | Jennifer Lee |
ISBN | 1577319443 |
Turn Passionate Ideas into Profitable Enterprises
Do you dream of making a living doing what you love but find the process of creating a viable business plan like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? Jennifer Lee knows what it's like to make the entrepreneurial leap -- and how to do it successfully....
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Author | Cal Newport |
ISBN | 1455509108 |
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice.
Not only is the cliché flawed-preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work-but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety...