Startups


Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
The Lean Startup
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
Rework
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Business Model Generation
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
Pooja Agnihotri
There can’t be anything more fatal to a business than making decisions based on somebody else’s assumptions.
Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

Shunryu Suzuki
Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way. In an exact sense, the only thing we actually can study in our life is that on which we are working in each moment. We cannot even study Buddha’s words.” - “So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings. ...more
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

More quotes...
A place to discuss leadership, entrepreneurship and startup books. Focus is to connect readers a…more
2 members, last active 7 years ago
The best group to talk about Growth Hacking, SaaS and Startups.
1 member, last active 8 years ago
Veteran-Owned Small Business Owners & Professionals Not your average book club. We don’t vote on books (though we do accept suggestions), assign cha…more
2 members, last active 4 years ago
Start It Smart Library START IT SMART READS. www.startitsmart.com "Start It Smart Library" is an exclusive project ava…more
4 members, last active 10 years ago