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You can read the listed books but it will not help you to start your startup
1. Zero to One.
2. The Lean Startup.
3. The Startup Owner's Manual.
4. Founders at Work
5. Crossing the Chasm
6. 100$ startup
7. Never Too Late to Startup
What you need is a market and start-up capital and not some ideas you don’t know how to put into action.
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i have read most of these books so i can give you some tips.
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all these books will cost you about $ 150 you will spend your time and money and you will not start a business
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Enjoy:
1. Zero to One. by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
2. The Lean Startup. by Eric Ries
3. The Startup Owner's Manual. by Steve Blank, Bob Village
4. Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston
5. Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey A. Moore
6. Screw it, Let’s do it - Richard Branson (I strongly suggest that you read his autobiography)
7. Never Too Late to Startup - Rob Kornblum
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1. Company of one
2. Make Time
3. Start with why
I really enjoyed reading Robert Kiyosaki's book Rich Dad Poor Dad. Not only did it help me think outside of the traditional 9 to 5, but it helped my thinking uplevel into thinking how to create multiple streams of income.
All of us need to remember the fact that producing new ideas is not the same as copying what a person else is doing available. The spirit of a real entrepreneur lies in doing that component which different people wouldn't do. The factor I am looking to make is which you want to be in the correct mind-set to generate ideas. You need to be in that sector and reflect on consideration of all sorts of stuff.
Keeping that during thoughts, right here are the books I suggest which you read, so you'll make your mind bigger inside the discipline of commercial enterprise and entrepreneurship, and generate your personal ideas.
1. Zero to one ( By means of Peter Thiel ) -
That is one of the quality business books available, and it's not your regular "how-to" guide. It makes you observed, it makes you wonder, it makes you generate ideas, and it makes you want to trade the world.
2. Steve Jobs ( With the aid of Walter Isaacson ) -
This ebook practically set the entrepreneurial route for me. It was given to me in that sector. It made me think about the entirety I was doing as someone, for humanity. It made me want to pressure exchange in people's lives. Here, you will find out how Steve operated and that'll optimistically help you come up with large ideas.
3. Rework ( through Jason Fried and David Hansson ) -
This is a fairly unconventional book that helped me get through my maximum pressured times as an entrepreneur. It made me pivot and it made me pivot a few greater until I stored producing new ideas and iterations.
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I have been associated with several companies in India and had worked with startups too. I have read several books on startups which have proven helpful in the long run. Let me discuss them one by one below:
1. The Fixer by Bradley Tusk: This book is one of the finest in the market as far as startup is concerned. This bite-sized bestseller shows you the ups and downs of the startup life, allowing you to side-step common mistakes and place yourself firmly on the road to success. This book gives you in-depth advice on how to play the political business game to your advantage, avoiding pitfalls to drown you before you even begin. in " The Fixer", the author Bradley Tusk shares the skills and knowledge he developed working with Chuck Schumer, Michael Bloomberg, Rod Blagojevich, and other political and business legends to help startups fight back.
2. Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin: The author is the founder and former CEO of Moz, reveals traditional Silicon Valley "wisdom" leads far too many startups astray. Fishkin pulls back the curtain on tech startup mythology, exposing the ups and downs of startup life that most CEOs would rather keep secret. His hard won lessons are applicable to any kind of business environment. Up or down the chain of command, at both early-stage startups and mature companies, whether your trajectory is riding high or down in the dumps: this book can help solve your problems and make you feel less alone for having them. This is a definitive guide to funding startups.
3. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou: Another good book on startup osd written by John Carreyrou, he is a French-American journalist with "The Wall Street Journal"and the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Bad blood tells the inside story of their breathtaking rise and fall of a multibillion dollar startup, Theranos.
4. Super pumped by Mike Issac: Super pumped is a Norton Best Non-Fiction Book of 2019 and is written by tech reporter and winner of Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Reporting, Mike Issac. The book provides brilliant expose on the journey to dominance and eventual fall from grace of the tech gaint Uber. With information stemming from interviews with both past and current employees of the company, along with never before published documents, this book gives readers a look into the life of its founders, the sacrifice it took and the mistakes to be avoided if you are to reproduce the success the company enjoyed without the blowback.
I believe that these books will help you greatly before starting your first startup. If you have any follow up questions regarding these books feel free to contact me.
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I see some great options shared already. Here are a few more great books!
Quick reads:
1) Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits! - by Greg Crabtree - Easy read - takes the mystery out of accounting and shares the steps to be profitable.
2) Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World - by Gary Vaynerchuk. Advice/Examples on how to build an authentic following and how to leverage different social media channels.
3) Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't - Verne Harnish - includes the four major decision areas every company must get right to grow and offers tools/techniques to use.
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I specialize in helping start-ups refine their brand positioning and business model as well as guiding established businesses looking to grow their revenue.
Best of luck!
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