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600+ Best Startup Books

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Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on Your Terms
Jeffrey Bussgang – Published May 4th 2010
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3.92 1409 ratings
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The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs
William H. Draper III, Eric Schmidt – Published January 4th 2011
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3.91 683 ratings
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Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur
Dermot Berkery – Published October 1st 2007
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4.13 264 ratings
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The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital: Inside Secrets from the Leaders in the Startup Game
Andrew Romans – Published August 15th 2013
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3.73 154 ratings
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The Art of the Start 2.0
Guy Kawasaki – Published March 3, 2015
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3.87 27155 ratings
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Startup Law and Fundraising for Entrepreneurs and Startup Advisors
Paul A. Swegle – Published July 23, 2020
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4.6 97 ratings
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High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil – Published July 17th 2018
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4.02 2275 ratings
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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Paul Graham, Allen Noren, Matt Hutchinson – Published May 25th 2004
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4.06 8702 ratings
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A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs
Tren Griffin – Published December 5th 2017
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3.98 100 ratings
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The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
Chris Guillebeau – Published May 8th 2012
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3.87 61196 ratings
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance – Published May 19th 2015
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4.21 339076 ratings
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Lost and Founder: The Mostly Awful, Sometimes Awesome Truth about Building a Tech Startup
Rand Fishkin – Published April 24th 2018
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4.37 1829 ratings
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How to Build a Billion Dollar App
George Berkowski – Published March 3rd 2015
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4.15 1136 ratings
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Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business
Mikkel Svane, Carlye Adler – Published December 1st 2014
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4.02 775 ratings
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Secret to Startup Failure: Fail Fast. Fail Cheap. Fail Happy.
Sonia Lin – Published January 8th 2014
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3.97 118 ratings
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The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
William N. Thorndike Jr. – Published October 23rd 2012
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4.19 9859 ratings
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
Peter F. Drucker – Published January 1st 1993
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4.05 10026 ratings
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Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O`Reilly – Published December 4th 2014
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4.25 1411 ratings
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Ultimate Sales Machine
Chet Holmes – Published June 21st 2007
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3.95 8394 ratings
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Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too
Gary Vaynerchuk – Published January 30th 2018
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3.99 9459 ratings
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Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work That Lasts
Ryan Holiday – Published July 18th 2017
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4.16 2892 ratings
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Start Your Own Business: The Only Startup Book You`ll Ever Need
The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc – Published January 13th 2015
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4.08 203 ratings
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The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-It-Like-It-Is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You Are at the End of Your Roll
Mike Michalowicz – Published September 24th 2008
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3.89 1879 ratings
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High-Performance Entrepreneur
Subroto Bagchi – Published October 30th 2006
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3.87 658 ratings
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Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean
Roberto Verganti – Published August 3rd 2009
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4.01 475 ratings
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Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind
Andy Dunn – Published May 10th 2022
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4.51 718 ratings
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
– Published October 22nd 2013
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4.05 17843 ratings
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UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products That People Want
Jaime Levy – Published June 16th 2015
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3.98 967 ratings
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Good in a Room: How to Sell Yourself (and Your Ideas) and Win Over Any Audience
Stephanie Palmer – Published March 11th 2008
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3.81 500 ratings
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Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Austin Kleon – Published March 6th 2014
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4.11 42860 ratings
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Selling Your Startup: Crafting the Perfect Exit, Selling Your Business, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know
Alejandro Cremades – Published July 21st 2021
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4.62 34 ratings
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Take Me Home: The Inspiring Stories of 20 Entrepreneurs from Small Town India with Big-Time Dreams
Rashmi Bansal – Published by Westland (first
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3.88 992 ratings
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Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business Into an Enduring Great Company
James C. Collins, William C. Lazier – Published September 21st 1995
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4.08 218 ratings
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Alexander Osterwalder 3 Books Collection Set (Value Proposition Design, Business Model Generation, Testing Business Ideas)
Alexander Osterwalder, David J. Bland, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith, Trish Papadakos – Published by John Wiley
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4.22 9 ratings
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Subscription Marketing: Strategies for Nurturing Customers in a World of Churn
Anne H. Janzer – Published January 9th 2015
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3.91 193 ratings
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The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, & Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly
David Meerman Scott – Published July 1st 2013
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3.84 6516 ratings
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Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even If You Hate Marketing and Selling
Michael Port, Tim Sanders – Published April 1st 2006
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3.89 7281 ratings
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Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach
Gerald M. Weinberg – Published January 1st 1986
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4.09 961 ratings
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How to F*ck Up Your Startup: The Science Behind Why 90% of Companies Fail--and How You Can Avoid It
Kim Hvidkjaer – Published February 8th 2022
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4.67 109 ratings
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Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
Joe Coulombe – Published June 22nd 2021
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3.46 1606 ratings
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The Little Book of Venture Capital Investing: Empowering Economic Growth and Investment Portfolios
Louis C. Gerken – Published January 13th 2014
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3.32 44 ratings
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The Silicon Boys: And Their Valley of Dreams
David A. Kaplan – Published April 5th 2000
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3.87 254 ratings
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The Crowdfunding Bible: How to Raise Money for Any Startup, Video Game or Project
Scott Steinberg, Rusel DeMaria, Jon Kimmich, Eric Migicovsky – Published May 9th 2012
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3.68 204 ratings
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A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs
Tren Griffin – Published December 5th 2017
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3.98 100 ratings
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Finding Genius: Venture Capital and the Future it is Betting on
Kunal Mehta, Nitya Rajendran, Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka, Grace Chou, Michael Raab, Wendy Xiao Schadeck, Andrew Kangpan, Shefali Bhardwaj – Published September 30th 2019
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4.07 27 ratings
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Pitching Hacks: How to pitch startups to investors
Venture Hacks – Published December 22nd 2009
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4.10 81 ratings
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The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets
Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits – Published February 26th 2013
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4.10 1887 ratings
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How to be a VC: LEARN FROM TOP SILICON VALLEY INVESTORS ON HOW THEY BECAME VCS
Grace Gong – Published December 21st 2017
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3.64 11 ratings
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The #1 Guide to Startup Valuation: How to Value Your Startup in 12 Easy Steps
Joachim Blazer – Published July 25th 2018
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3.40 10 ratings
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Cannabis Capital: How to Get Your Business Funded in the Cannabis Economy
Ross O`Brien – Published January 21st 2020
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4.25 4 ratings
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