Before starting your first company and while developing it, there are things you need to know. Here you’ll find some great knowledge, definitely very useful on every stage of your business.
Before you start
- Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Zero to one: Notes on startups, or how to build the future by Peter Thiel
- The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
Idea
- Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change The Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christenen
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip & Dan Heath
Starting up
- The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator by Randall Stross
- Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
- Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
Team
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Paperback by Daniel H. Pink
- The hard thing about hard things: Building a business when there are no easy answers by Ben Horowitz
- Rework by 37signals
Product
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action Paperback by Simon Sinek
- Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application by Jason Fried
- Hooked: How to build habit-forming products by Nir Eyal
- The lean startup: How today’s entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful businesses, by Eric Ries
Selling
- Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
- Inside the Tornado: Strategies for Developing, Leveraging, and Surviving Hypergrowth Markets by Geoffrey A. Moore
- Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross
Venture Capital
M&A / IPO
- Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
- Groupon’s Biggest Deal Ever: The Inside Story of How One Insane Gamble, Tons of Unbelievable Hype, and Millions of Wild Deals Made Billions for One Ballsy Joker
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Published April 14, 2015
