600+ must-read startup books for founders

The Golden Tap: The Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Startups

Kashyap Deorah – Published November 30, 2015

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4.16 682 ratings

Raising Capital: Get the Money You Need to Grow Your Business

Andrew J. Sherman – Published February 14, 2005

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3.55 60 ratings

Fundraising

Ryan Breslow – Published August 15, 2021

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4.37 190 ratings

Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Brad Kowitz – Published March 8, 2016

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4.20 19345 ratings

Unscalable

Charlie Guo – Published January 19, 2016

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3.93 55 ratings

The Start-Up J Curve: The Six Steps to Entrepreneurial Success

Howard Love – Published August 30, 2016

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4.25 410 ratings

Never Too Late to Startup: How Mid-Life Entrepreneurs Create Wealth, Freedom & Purpose

Rob Kornblum – Published April 12, 2016

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4.30 57 ratings

Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

Patrick Bet-David – Published August 18, 2020

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4.17 2476 ratings

Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

Melissa Perri – Published November 1, 2018

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4.34 2646 ratings

Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--and How to Make Them Work for You

Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary – Published March 28, 2016

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4.03 4149 ratings

The Art of Profitability

Adrian J. Slywotzky – Published July 1, 2009

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3.98 787 ratings

Wes Bush – Published May 28, 2019

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4.15 881 ratings

Lean from the Trenches

Henrik Kniberg – Published December 21, 2011

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4.21 962 ratings

Nail It Then Scale It

Nathan Furr, Paul Ahlstrom – Published June 1, 2011

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4.14 726 ratings

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal

Ben Mezrich – Published July 14, 2009

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3.56 15508 ratings

Venture Capital at the Crossroads

William D. Bygrave, Jeffry A. Timmons – Published July 1, 1992

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3.80 10 ratings

Don't Sleep on It: Turn Your Passion & Expertise Into a Profitable Online Business

Kavit Haria – Published April 21, 2018

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4.52 75 ratings

Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on Your Terms

Jeffrey Bussgang – Published May 4, 2010

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3.92 1409 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

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 1, 2006

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3.89 7281 ratings

Venture Capital For Dummies

Nicole Gravagna, Peter K. Adams – Published August 15, 2013

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3.87 38 ratings

Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising

Ryan Holiday – Published September 3, 2013

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3.76 9859 ratings

Brad Feld – Published October 9, 2012

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4.00 1675 ratings

Shortcut Your Startup: Ten Ways to Speed Up Entrepreneurial Success

Courtney & Carter Reum – Published February 7, 2018

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3.72 32 ratings

Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

Seth Godin – Published May 6, 1999

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3.91 14270 ratings

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin – Published February 5, 2013

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3.97 6112 ratings

Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game

Walker Deibel – Published October 30, 2018

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4.32 806 ratings

Ryan Singer, Jason Fried –

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4.31 1900 ratings

Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model

John W. Mullins – Published September 8, 2009

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4.02 846 ratings

The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs

Kevin D. Johnson – Published March 5, 2013

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3.97 763 ratings

See, Solve, Scale: How Anyone Can Turn an Unsolved Problem into a Breakthrough Success

Danny Warshay – Published March 22, 2022

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4.34 59 ratings

Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton – Published December 1, 1991

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3.94 71174 ratings

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

Donald Miller – Published October 10, 2017

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4.28 16724 ratings

The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing

Robert Finkel, David Greising – Published December 1, 2009

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3.85 504 ratings

Extreme Revenue Growth: Startup Secrets to Growing Your Sales from $1 Million to $25 Million in Any Industry

Victor Cheng – Published May 15, 2010

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4.42 53 ratings

How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

Mark Cuban –

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4.06 6310 ratings

John Warrillow – Published April 28, 2011

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4.20 5862 ratings

William N. Thorndike Jr. – Published October 23, 2012

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4.19 9859 ratings

Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur

Brad Feld, Amy Batchelor – Published January 14, 2013

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4.09 900 ratings

Lost and Founder: The Mostly Awful, Sometimes Awesome Truth about Building a Tech Startup

Rand Fishkin – Published April 24, 2018

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4.37 1829 ratings

Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors

Michael E. Porter – Published June 1, 1998

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4.16 15803 ratings

The Story Engine: An entrepreneur's guide to content strategy and brand storytelling without spending all day writing

Kyle Gray, Tom Morkes – Published May 14, 2017

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3.66 200 ratings

Founder's Pocket Guide: Founder Equity Splits

Stephen R. Poland – Published March 21, 2016

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4.32 103 ratings

Judy Robinett – Published February 5, 2019

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4.29 78 ratings

The Fundraising Rules

Mark Peter Davis – Published March 24, 2013

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3.95 57 ratings

James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras – Published November 2, 2004

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4.04 70804 ratings

Austin Kleon – Published March 6, 2014

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4.11 42860 ratings

The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value

Mahendra Ramsinghani – Published March 17, 2020

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4.45 42 ratings

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer – Published September 8, 2020

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4.30 19915 ratings

The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business: Make Great Money. Work the Way You Like. Have the Life You Want.

Elaine Pofeldt – Published January 2, 2018

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3.61 1032 ratings

Ashlee Vance – Published May 19, 2015

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4.21 339076 ratings

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