Here is a list of the best Startup books, some I have read myself, some that I did research on, and all have great reviews!
- Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle (2011)
- Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users – And Losing $78 Million (2017)
- Give to Get: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Sales Funnels – And How You Can, Too (2019)
- Perfect Startup: A Complete System for Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur (2019)
- Startup: A Novel (2018)
- Hello, Startup: A Programmer’s Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams (2015)
- The 7 Day Startup: You Don’t Learn Until You Launch (2014)
- Summary: ”The Lean Startup” – How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses | A Comprehensive Summary (Epic Summary) (2019)
- UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design (2018)
- Small Business Start-Up Kit, The: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide (2018)
- The Smarter Startup: A Better Approach to Online Business for Entrepreneurs (Voices That Matter) (2013)
- Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (2017)
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle (2011)
A fascinating expert look at Israel’s meteoric rise in the global economy — with timely hints for a world reeling from financial crisis addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel — a country of 7.1 million, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war, with no natural resources — produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful nations like Canada, Japan, China,…
Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users – And Losing $78 Million (2017)
‘BEST STARTUP BOOKS OF ALL TIME’ by Benzinga’TOP GROWTH-HACKING BUSINESS BOOK’ by Entrepreneur MagazineThis compelling and inspiring narrative gives entrepreneurs a rare behind-the-scenes look inside this fast-growing startup that created the first online dating app and grew to 100 million users. Best-Seller combines lively and often hilarious storytelling, revealing genius growth tactics, numerous case…
Give to Get: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Sales Funnels – And How You Can, Too (2019)
When it comes to marketing and sales, you can’t afford to neglect your sales funnel. It’s the ONE investment that – if done right – will take your business to the next level.
Perfect Startup: A Complete System for Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur (2019)
The Perfect Startup is an effective and easy-to-use system for creating a successful startup. It is based on over 10 years of research of thousands of successful entrepreneurs, billionaires and CEOs. The concepts of the system are aimed at giving you a condensed entrepreneurial wisdom that will change your business mindset, practical tips that will shorten your path between an idea and a profitable business, and tools that will make you a stronger entrepreneur.
Startup: A Novel (2018)
From veteran online journalist and BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir comes a hilarious debut novel that proves there are some dilemmas that no app can solve. Mack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea.
Hello, Startup: A Programmer’s Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams (2015)
This book is the “Hello, World” tutorial for building products, technologies, and teams in a startup environment.
The 7 Day Startup: You Don’t Learn Until You Launch (2014)
From generating ideas to gaining your first paying customers, The 7 Day Startup is the bootstrapper’s bible for launching your next product. In it, you will learn: 1. Why validation isn’t the answer 2. How to evaluate your business idea 3. How to choose a business name, fast 4. How to build a website in 1 day for under $100 5. 10 proven ways to market a business quickly And much, much more.”People who say there’s nothing to learn from failure don’t see the big picture.
Summary: ”The Lean Startup” – How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses | A Comprehensive Summary (Epic Summary) (2019)
A Complete Summary of The Lean StartupThe Lean Startup is a book written by Eric Ries. In this book, the author explains that regardless of what may often seem to be true, it is quite possible to build a successful startup company.This book is a guide for anyone who thinks that starting a business will lead to failure.
UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design (2018)
p>Great user experiences (UX) are essential for products today, but designing one can be a lengthy and expensive process. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques. UX expert Laura Klein shows you what it takes to gather valuable input from customers, build something they’ll truly love, and reduce the time it takes to get your product to market.No prior experience in UX or design is necessary to get started.
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.
The Smarter Startup: A Better Approach to Online Business for Entrepreneurs (Voices That Matter) (2013)
Why do some startups succeed while other do not? In a competitive online market, startups must take a smarter and more strategic approach to maximize odds of achieving product/market fit.This book discusses: By combining established models and new insights – the authors answer the question of why some startups are more successful than others, in order to help entrepreneurs reduce the risk of starting an online business.
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (2017)
An instant New York Times bestseller, Dan Lyons’ “hysterical” (Recode) memoir, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “the best book about Silicon Valley,” takes readers inside the maddening world of fad-chasing venture capitalists, sales bros, social climbers, and sociopaths at today’s tech startups.For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession–until one Friday morning when he receiv…
Best Startup Books You Should Enjoy
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 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.
Crack the Funding Code: How Investors Think and What They Need to Hear to Fund Your Startup
Author(s): Judy Robinett
ID: 2325303, Publisher: AMACOM, Year: 5 Feb 2019, Size: 4 Mb, Format: epub
The Hard Sell - Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup
Author(s): Evan Hughes
ID: 3203776, Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Year: 2022, Size: 1 Mb, Format: epub
Lean Startup in Large Organizations: Overcoming Resistance to Innovation
Author(s): James A. Euchner
ID: 3204702, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2022, Size: 8 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are absolutely record-breakers according to The Wall Street Journal, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.