Best Rated Books on Entrepreneurship and StartUps

Top 10 Best Rated Books on Entrepreneurship and StartUps : The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
AuthorGary Keller
ISBN1885167776
This book is really deep. While the title is easily marketable I felt the insight was really profound and one of those books I'll definitely need to reference throughout my journey.

KEY INSIGHTS
- Extraordinary results are determined by how narrow you can make your focus
- Do fewer...
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
AuthorPeter Thiel
ISBN0804139296
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...
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
AuthorEric Ries
ISBN0307887898
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...
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
AuthorBen Horowitz
ISBN0062273205
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,...
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
AuthorBrian Tracy
ISBN1576754227
A self-development book that seems like a long PowerPoint presentation, with tons of quotes from people I never heard of. So I'm supposed to be inspired and motivated by a certain Jonathan Smerkfeese who says "Procrastination. Such a bad, bad thing"?

What I learned from this book, however,...
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
AuthorCarol S. Dweck
A newer edition of this book can be found here.

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the...
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
AuthorMalcolm Gladwell
ISBN0316346624
An alternate cover edition exists here.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion...
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
AuthorMichael E. Porter
ISBN0684841487
Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity -- like all great breakthroughs -- Porter's...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
AuthorStephen R. Covey
ISBN0743269519
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 Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
AuthorWalter Isaacson
The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people know who created them. They were not conjured up in a garret or garage by solo inventors suitable to be singled out on magazine covers or put into a pantheon with Edison, Bell, and Morse. Instead, most of the...
Business Model Generation
AuthorAlexander Osterwalder
ISBN2839906171
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...
The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage
AuthorDaymond John
ISBN1101903597
Daymond John has been practicing the power of broke ever since he started selling his home-sewn t-shirts on the streets of Queens. With no funding and a $40 budget, Daymond had to come up with out-of-the box ways to promote his products. Luckily, desperation breeds innovation, and so he hatched an idea...
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
AuthorDan Senor
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations...
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
AuthorDaniel H. Pink
ISBN1594487154
From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes a surprising--and surprisingly useful--new book that explores the power of selling in our lives.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people...
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
AuthorPeter F. Drucker
ISBN0060833459
What makes an effective executive?

The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge...
The 4-Hour Workweek
AuthorTimothy Ferriss
ISBN0307353133
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...
As a Man Thinketh
AuthorJames Allen
ISBN1585425648
The mind guides our footsteps as we progress along the pathway of life.

Purity of mind leads inevitably to purity of life, to the precious love and understanding that should control our everyday acts and attitudes towards friends and foes.

But where must one look for guidance? How...
Winning
AuthorJack Welch
ISBN0060753943
Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career at General Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe, in multiple markets, against brutal competition. His honest, be-the-best style of management became the gold standard in business, with his relentless...
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