While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Business Startup books.
- Small Business Start-Up Kit, The: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide (2018)
- Work from Home: Starting & Running a Profitable Freight Broker Business: A comprehensive step-by-step Startup guide for the 21st Century (2019)
- Start Up: Insider Secrets on Building Your Business Credit (2017)
- Startup Evolution Curve From Idea to Profitable and Scalable Business: Startup Marketing Manual (2017)
- Mind Your Business: A Workbook to Grow Your Creative Passion Into a Full-time Gig (2019)
- Start Your Own Business, Sixth Edition: The Only Startup Book You’ll Ever Need (2015)
- Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (2010)
- Small Business Start-Up Kit for California, The (2018)
- Starting a Business QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner’s Guide to Launching a Successful Small Business, Turning Your Vision into Reality, and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Dream (2019)
- Women’s Small Business Start-Up Kit, The: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide (2018)
- The Corporate Startup: How established companies can develop successful innovation ecosystems (2019)
Small Business Start-Up Kit, The: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide (2018)
Want to start a business? Don’t know where to begin? Start here. The Small Business Start-Up Kit shows you how to set up a small business in your state, quickly and efficiently clearing state and local bureaucratic hurdles along the way.
Work from Home: Starting & Running a Profitable Freight Broker Business: A comprehensive step-by-step Startup guide for the 21st Century (2019)
Work from Home: Starting & Running a Profitable Freight Broker BusinessA comprehensive step-by-step Startup guide for the 21st CenturyHave you ever yearned to work from home? Are you tired of the daily 9 to 5 grind? Is being your own boss something you have always dreamed of?This book will show you exactly how to begin a freight brokerage firm from the comfort of your own home!You will gain a deep satisfaction knowing you built a successful business from scratch, on your own terms.
Start Up: Insider Secrets on Building Your Business Credit (2017)
The book will teach how to build credit for you business that is separate from your social security number. After reading this book you will have the key foundation, Insider secrets on how how to gain credit for your business that will help you fund your dream. You will not be relying on the banks approving your loans in your personal name. You will have the keys to the kingdom in regards to getting funding for your business with no personal liability to your name.
Startup Evolution Curve From Idea to Profitable and Scalable Business: Startup Marketing Manual (2017)
It's like an IKEA guide for building your next startup. Based on research of 1,447 startups and highly recommended by more than 30 international experts. It's not a book you read in a day, but like a manual you take with you and consult from time to time. Every startup founder should have it on the desk!
Mind Your Business: A Workbook to Grow Your Creative Passion Into a Full-time Gig (2019)
Mind Your Business is the ONLY book that teaches you everything you need to know about how to build a successful business from scratch. From developing your brand to designing products to identifying your legal and tax needs, this comprehensive guide will take you through every step of the process and help you create a unique and customized roadmap for your business.
Start Your Own Business, Sixth Edition: The Only Startup Book You’ll Ever Need (2015)
Tapping into more than 33 years of small business expertise, the staff at Entrepreneur Media takes today’s entrepreneurs beyond opening their doors and through the first three years of ownership. This revised edition features amended chapters on choosing a business, adding partners, getting funded, and managing the business structure and employees, and also includes help understanding the latest tax and healthcare reform information and legalities.
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (2010)
Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow’s enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don’t yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation.
Small Business Start-Up Kit for California, The (2018)
Want to start your own California business? Don’t know where to begin? Start here. The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California California shows you how to set up a small business in the Golden State quickly and easily. It clearly explains the fees, forms, and bureaucratic technicalities you’ll encounter and shows you how to efficiently get your business up and running in California.
Starting a Business QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner’s Guide to Launching a Successful Small Business, Turning Your Vision into Reality, and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Dream (2019)
THE ULTIMATE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO STARTING A BUSINESS IN 2019!Have you ever dreamt of starting your own business and living life on your terms?This book shows you EXACTLY what you need to know to stand out from the crowd!Do you have an idea for an amazing product or service but you aren’t sure how to build a business around it?
Women’s Small Business Start-Up Kit, The: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide (2018)
Have an idea or skill that you’re ready to turn into a business? Want to expand or improve your current business operations? This book is for you!
The Corporate Startup: How established companies can develop successful innovation ecosystems (2019)
A key reading for leaders that outlines how to effectively innovate for the future and boost growth, while running the core business. – Alex Osterwalder, Co-author of Business Model Generation.
Best Business Startup Books You Should Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some business startup books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Creating a Customer Experience-Centric Startup: A Step-by-Step Framework
Author(s): Thomas Suwelack, Manuel Stegemann, Feng Xia Ang
ID: 3207152, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2022, Size: 4 Mb, Format: pdf
Jefa in Training: The Business Startup Toolkit for Entrepreneurial and Creative Women
Author(s): Ashley K. Stoyanov Ojeda
ID: 3453304, Publisher: Mango Media, Year: 2022, Size: 3 Mb, Format: epub
Kings Of Crypto: One Startup’s Quest To Take Cryptocurrency Out Of Silicon Valley And Onto Wall Street
Author(s): Jeff John Roberts
ID: 2867660, Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, Year: 2021, Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are really best-sellers according to Washington Post, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.