161 books
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232 voters
Startup Books
Showing 1-50 of 4,077
The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 702 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 361,556 ratings — published 2011
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 630 times as startup)
avg rating 4.15 — 392,905 ratings — published 2014
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 365 times as startup)
avg rating 4.20 — 107,927 ratings — published 2014
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as startup)
avg rating 4.10 — 12,787 ratings — published 2012
Rework (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as startup)
avg rating 3.98 — 174,737 ratings — published 2010
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as startup)
avg rating 3.89 — 70,466 ratings — published 2012
Business Model Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as startup)
avg rating 4.21 — 58,776 ratings — published 2010
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as startup)
avg rating 4.03 — 37,761 ratings — published 2001
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as startup)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,703 ratings — published 2003
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as startup)
avg rating 4.04 — 60,026 ratings — published 1997
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,774 ratings — published 2014
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as startup)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,617 ratings — published 2013
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as startup)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,162 ratings — published 2006
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 129 times as startup)
avg rating 4.37 — 13,373 ratings — published 2013
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,240 ratings — published 2011
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
by (shelved 122 times as startup)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,321 ratings — published 2011
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)
by (shelved 119 times as startup)
avg rating 4.09 — 20,630 ratings — published 2012
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as startup)
avg rating 4.19 — 23,299 ratings — published 2016
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as startup)
avg rating 4.12 — 287,534 ratings — published 2001
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as startup)
avg rating 3.90 — 29,294 ratings — published 2004
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as startup)
avg rating 4.41 — 279,711 ratings — published 2018
The E-myth Revisited (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 97 times as startup)
avg rating 4.07 — 95,876 ratings — published 1985
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as startup)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,197 ratings — published 2013
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as startup)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,308 ratings — published 2008
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as startup)
avg rating 4.01 — 86,772 ratings — published 2005
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as startup)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,762 ratings — published 2018
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
by (shelved 73 times as startup)
avg rating 3.91 — 330,389 ratings — published
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as startup)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,867 ratings — published 2018
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup (Disciplined Entrepreneurship Series)
by (shelved 72 times as startup)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,410 ratings — published 2013
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as startup)
avg rating 4.46 — 361,575 ratings — published 2016
High Output Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as startup)
avg rating 4.30 — 21,104 ratings — published 1983
The Art of Startup Fundraising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as startup)
avg rating 4.02 — 810 ratings — published 2016
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as startup)
avg rating 4.10 — 264,610 ratings — published 2009
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as startup)
avg rating 4.06 — 84,063 ratings — published 1994
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as startup)
avg rating 4.04 — 76,431 ratings — published 2000
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as startup)
avg rating 4.21 — 101,798 ratings — published 2014
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want
by (shelved 63 times as startup)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,132 ratings — published 2013
Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,401 ratings — published 2017
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as startup)
avg rating 4.13 — 441,802 ratings — published 2015
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as startup)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,348,963 ratings — published 2011
Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as startup)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,330 ratings — published 2018
Startup CEO: How to Build a Company to Success (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 54 times as startup)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,408 ratings — published 2013
Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 54 times as startup)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,279 ratings — published 2010
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as startup)
avg rating 4.27 — 32,405 ratings — published 2020
Measure What Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as startup)
avg rating 3.98 — 37,022 ratings — published 2017
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as startup)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,211 ratings — published
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as startup)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,099 ratings — published 2019
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as startup)
avg rating 3.98 — 98,753 ratings — published 2006
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as startup)
avg rating 4.14 — 77,060 ratings — published 2013
The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as startup)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,683 ratings — published
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