38 books
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Startup Books
Showing 1-50 of 4,111
The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 706 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 364,387 ratings — published 2011
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 642 times as startup)
avg rating 4.15 — 398,485 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 369 times as startup)
avg rating 4.20 — 109,413 ratings — published 2014
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,824 ratings — published 2012
Rework (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as startup)
avg rating 3.98 — 175,504 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 179 times as startup)
avg rating 3.89 — 70,823 ratings — published 2012
Business Model Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as startup)
avg rating 4.21 — 59,064 ratings — published 2010
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as startup)
avg rating 4.03 — 38,023 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 — 16,732 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 — 60,629 ratings — published 1997
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,806 ratings — published 2014
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as startup)
avg rating 4.12 — 50,005 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 — 31,396 ratings — published 2002
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 132 times as startup)
avg rating 4.37 — 13,649 ratings — published 2013
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as startup)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,294 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 123 times as startup)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,344 ratings — published 2011
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)
by (shelved 121 times as startup)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,750 ratings — published 2012
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as startup)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,431 ratings — published 2016
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as startup)
avg rating 4.12 — 293,017 ratings — published 2001
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as startup)
avg rating 3.90 — 29,337 ratings — published 2004
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as startup)
avg rating 4.40 — 281,512 ratings — published 2018
The E-myth Revisited (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 98 times as startup)
avg rating 4.07 — 96,833 ratings — published 1985
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as startup)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,523 ratings — published 2008
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as startup)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,211 ratings — published 2013
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 — 87,756 ratings — published 2005
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as startup)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,780 ratings — published 2018
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as startup)
avg rating 4.46 — 367,764 ratings — published 2016
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup (Disciplined Entrepreneurship Series)
by (shelved 73 times as startup)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,417 ratings — published 2013
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as startup)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,923 ratings — published 2018
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
by (shelved 72 times as startup)
avg rating 3.91 — 333,518 ratings — published 2007
High Output Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as startup)
avg rating 4.30 — 21,309 ratings — published 1983
The Art of Startup Fundraising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as startup)
avg rating 4.02 — 816 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 — 268,527 ratings — published 2009
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as startup)
avg rating 4.06 — 84,789 ratings — published 1994
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as startup)
avg rating 4.04 — 76,601 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 — 102,716 ratings — published 2014
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want
by (shelved 63 times as startup)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,165 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 — 5,457 ratings — published 2017
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as startup)
avg rating 4.12 — 445,025 ratings — published 2015
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as startup)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,358,329 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 — 2,343 ratings — published 2018
Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as startup)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,300 ratings — published 2010
Startup CEO: How to Build a Company to Success (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 54 times as startup)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,411 ratings — published 2013
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as startup)
avg rating 4.27 — 32,913 ratings — published 2020
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as startup)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,171 ratings — published 2019
Measure What Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as startup)
avg rating 3.98 — 37,476 ratings — published 2017
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as startup)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,387 ratings — published
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as startup)
avg rating 3.98 — 99,348 ratings — published 2006
The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as startup)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,745 ratings — published
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as startup)
avg rating 4.14 — 77,425 ratings — published 2013
“Branding is putting lipstick on your startup pig. Branding is the art of making your startup look cooler, smarter, and more valuable than it actually is. Build the product first, polish it second, and don’t let style ever replace substance.”
― Chaos.: Where dreams, disasters, and money collide.
― Chaos.: Where dreams, disasters, and money collide.











