Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future – From Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal, Zero to One is an essential read for any entrepreneur starting their own company. Zero to One will inspire you to think for yourself and challenge the status quo. While most companies are simply interested in keeping pace with the competition, Zero to One focuses on the notion that in order to be successful, you must be bold and create something unique. The book has been praised by many of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Immelt and Mark Andreesen.
The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything The Art of the Start 2.0 is the revised and expanded version of his original classic. This edition has been updated to keep pace with the changes in social media and many other important topics. This must read offers sound advice on topics such as innovating, recruiting, fund raising, branding and more. This book has been given positive reviews by some of the most successful entrepreneurs such Mark Cuban, Arianna Huffington and Pierre Omidyar.
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It The E-Myth Revisited is an excellent book for anyone starting or running a small business. The E-Myth Revisited debunks the fatal assumption that if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work. The fact is that 40% of new businesses fail within the first year. Michael Gerber offers sound advice on how to effectively build and manage your business so that you don’t become another statistic.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers – Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreesen Horowitz, offers his insight and wisdom on what it takes to successfully build and run a start up. Through his own experiences, Horowitz offers advice on everything from minimizing politics in your organization to whether or not its time to sell your company and does so in a straightforward and entertaining way. The book is an excellent resource for any CEO or aspiring CEO. This book has been praised by Mrak Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Mark Costollo and Peter Thiel.
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future – In preparing to write this book, Chris Guillebau identified 1,500 individuals who built businesses earning $50,000 or more with a modest investment (in many cases,$100 or less). The book focuses on the 50 most intriguing cases and examines the mistakes these individuals made along the way and what it took for them to find lasting success. The book is an easy to follow guide that will show you how to turn your passion into a viable business and make the most of your own personal skills.
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The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs – Kevin Johnson has created a guide that offers a pragmatic approach to becoming a successful entrepreneur. The book offers 100 pieces of practical advice that cover the topics of strategy, education, people, finance, marketing and sales, leadership and motivation. Kevin offers insight into what it takes to be successful and how to avoid many of the mistakes he made in his earlier days. The Entrepreneur Mind offers fresh insight into how to successfully start and run a business.
The 7 Day Startup: You Don’t Learn Until You Launch – Dan Norris offers a step by step guide for anyone who wants to go from “wantreprenuer” to entrepreneur in 7 days. The book walks you through exactly what you need to do on each of the 7 days. The book will show you how to: come up with the right idea for your product, create a “Minimum Viable Product”, find the most useful name for your product, build a website inexpensively in one day, free methods for getting your business in front of enough people to help you decide whether or not to continue, measure what success means to you and launch your product. It is a must read for anyone looking for a simple A to Z guide for starting a business.
Choose Yourself! – With all of the uncertainty we face today, Jim Altucher shows us a game plan for controlling our own destiny. Drawing from events from his own life, Altucher shows how he was finally able to find happiness and success by putting himself first. We all have the power to take control of our lives, do the things that we love,find personal happiness and live a fulfilling life. If you are at a point in your life where you feel stuck, this book will help you find a new, better version of you.
The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses – Inspired by lessons learned from lean manufacturing, Eric Ries has developed a more efficient way for any entrepreneur to successfully start and manage their business. The Lean Start Up Method takes a scientific approach to creating and managing start ups. This method will show you how to develop a minimum viable product, test the viability of the product through continuous market feedback and determine whether to continue to improve the product or pivot in another direction. This approach is more effective since it allows companies to develop the right product offering with fewer resources. The Lean Start Up is a must read for any entrepreneur.
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