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600+ Best Startup Books

The largest curated collection of must-read startup books on internet. Startup books are categorized by genres, topics and authors so you can pick the best books for your reading list in minutes.

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Entrepreneurship321

Startup Growth145

Startup Guidebook102

Venture Capital91

Startup Fundraising88

Startup Success75

Startup73

Building Startup57

Innovation51

Marketing47

BOOK GENRES

Business586

Nonfiction478

Entrepreneurship427

Management259

Leadership240

Self Help220

Technology179

Personal Development155

Audiobook139

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Thomas E. Copeland1

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Sam Kamani1

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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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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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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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Chris Guillebeau – Published May 8th 2012

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3.87 61196 ratings

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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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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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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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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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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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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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