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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 451 times as startups)
avg rating 4.15 — 395,633 ratings — published 2014
The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 362 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 363,037 ratings — published 2011
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 257 times as startups)
avg rating 4.20 — 108,681 ratings — published 2014
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as startups)
avg rating 4.03 — 37,897 ratings — published 2001
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as startups)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,717 ratings — published 2003
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,807 ratings — published 2012
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as startups)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,262 ratings — published 2011
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,793 ratings — published 2014
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as startups)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,841 ratings — published 2013
Rework (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as startups)
avg rating 3.98 — 175,141 ratings — published 2010
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as startups)
avg rating 4.04 — 60,333 ratings — published 1997
Business Model Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as startups)
avg rating 4.21 — 58,948 ratings — published 2010
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 92 times as startups)
avg rating 4.37 — 13,516 ratings — published 2013
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as startups)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,285 ratings — published 2002
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
by (shelved 79 times as startups)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,332 ratings — published 2011
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as startups)
avg rating 3.90 — 29,330 ratings — published 2004
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as startups)
avg rating 4.12 — 290,134 ratings — published 2001
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)
by (shelved 70 times as startups)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,720 ratings — published 2012
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as startups)
avg rating 4.40 — 280,614 ratings — published 2018
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as startups)
avg rating 3.89 — 70,676 ratings — published 2012
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as startups)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,767 ratings — published 2018
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as startups)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,204 ratings — published 2013
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as startups)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,891 ratings — published 2018
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as startups)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,411 ratings — published 2008
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as startups)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,369 ratings — published 2016
High Output Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as startups)
avg rating 4.30 — 21,207 ratings — published 1983
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as startups)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,133 ratings — published 2019
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as startups)
avg rating 4.04 — 76,516 ratings — published 2000
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as startups)
avg rating 4.46 — 364,342 ratings — published 2016
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as startups)
avg rating 4.01 — 87,242 ratings — published 2005
The E-myth Revisited (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 45 times as startups)
avg rating 4.07 — 96,305 ratings — published 1985
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as startups)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,564 ratings — published 2004
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as startups)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,306 ratings — published
Measure What Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as startups)
avg rating 3.98 — 37,211 ratings — published 2017
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as startups)
avg rating 4.10 — 266,283 ratings — published 2009
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want
by (shelved 43 times as startups)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,149 ratings — published 2013
Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as startups)
avg rating 4.16 — 935 ratings — published 2017
Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as startups)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,337 ratings — published 2018
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup (Disciplined Entrepreneurship Series)
by (shelved 41 times as startups)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,411 ratings — published 2013
Startup CEO: How to Build a Company to Success (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as startups)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,410 ratings — published 2013
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as startups)
avg rating 4.27 — 32,645 ratings — published 2020
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as startups)
avg rating 4.14 — 77,242 ratings — published 2013
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as startups)
avg rating 3.91 — 17,098 ratings — published 2016
Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as startups)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,430 ratings — published 2017
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as startups)
avg rating 4.21 — 102,203 ratings — published 2014
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as startups)
avg rating 3.98 — 99,069 ratings — published 2006
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as startups)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,307 ratings — published 2022
Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as startups)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,390 ratings — published 2010
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
by (shelved 35 times as startups)
avg rating 3.91 — 331,822 ratings — published 2007
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as startups)
avg rating 4.06 — 84,425 ratings — published 1994
“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far go together", African Proverb”
― Why Sell Tacos in Africa?: 16 life-changing business strategies you can use anywhere, from the man who turned $400 into $200 million
― Why Sell Tacos in Africa?: 16 life-changing business strategies you can use anywhere, from the man who turned $400 into $200 million
“In the race to scale a startup, overlooking financial planning is like building a skyscraper on shaky ground. True growth stems from decisions rooted in accurate forecasts and smart resource allocation.”
― The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies
― The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies












