Start Up


The Lean Startup
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
Rework
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
The E-myth Revisited
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
The 4-Hour Workweek
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Food Booth by Barbara J. FitzgeraldStart Your Own Food Truck Business by Rich MintzerFrom Dogs to Riches by Vera D. Clark-RugleyFood Truck Mobile Payment Systems - Start Accepting Major Cre... by Andrew MoorehouseStart Your Own Food Truck Business by The Staff of Entrepreneur M...
Food Concession Business
21 books — 1 voter
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerWorkhorse by Caroline PalmerPlease Be Advised by Christine SneedCompany by Max BarryWhisper Network by Chandler Baker
Toxic Workplaces in Fiction
69 books — 6 voters

The Lean Startup by Eric RiesNail It Then Scale It by Nathan FurrThe Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. ChristensenFounders at Work by Jessica LivingstonThe E-myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
Essential Reading for Startup Founders
202 books — 177 voters
17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail  by Pooja AgnihotriThe Art of Startup Fundraising by Alejandro CremadesAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go with Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
Small Biz Books that Make an Impact
125 books — 193 voters


Ziad K. Abdelnour
Start-ups fail for a lot of different reasons, but one I see repeatedly is ego. It presents as a dangerous sense of self-importance. Or the entrepreneur thinks they are the smartest person in the room who knows better than anyone else and either doesn’t seek out advice or doesn’t want to listen when it’s offered. Such know-it-alls delude themselves into thinking they have everything figured out, even though they don’t. For as hard as it is to elbow your way into the marketplace in ideal circumst ...more
Ziad K. Abdelnour

Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it. Rules and conventions are important for schools, businesses, and society in general, but you should never follow them blindly.
Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

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