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The Startup Leader's Survival Kit: 10 Books to Fuel Your Entrepreneurial Fire

Updated: Dec 26, 2024


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Startup Leadership Reading Guide

Shhhhhhhhh It’s reading time! 


We know you startup leaders are busy building the next big thing & dreaming to go big PLUS you're short of time obviously… 


So we thought that our 10 MUST book reading list will come handy:


  1. The Lean Startup - The bible for lean startups & MVP creation process by Eric Ries.


  2. Zero To One - Peter Thiel’s (PayPal, Palantir Co-Founder, Facebook’s first angel investor) notes on how to build a startup are priceless.


  3. The 1 Page Marketing Plan - Allan Dib’s manual for 1 pager will help you explore how to create it easily and avoid common entrepreneurial mistakes while doing so.


  4. Hooked- Nir Eyal’s facinating consumer psychology insights are actual pillars on how to build engaging audiences for your products/services.


  5. Blitzscaling - Reid Hoffman’s (LinkedIn, Greylock Venture, PayPal, Inflection AI Co-Founder) vision journey on how to create an industry giant, ASAP. 


  6. Hacking Growth - Sean Ellis’s formula on how to growth hack your product marketing efforts is a timeless piece that will have an impact on your activity.


  7. Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms - By Richard Schmalensee & David S. Evans For all Marketplaces entrepreneurs is a MUST read. (If you are building a marketplace you should also add the following to the list > ‘The Lean Marketplace’ by Makkonen & Gracia).


  8. Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Ben Horowitz ( Cofounder & CEO Opsware, Loudcloud & a16z VC) important journey exploration for every entrepreneur.


  9. Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming The Economy - By Sangeet Paul Choudary, Marshall W. Van Alstyne & Geoffrey G. Parker disruption focus essential read.


  10. Sprint: How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days - By Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky & Braden Kowitz will help you use new ways to think, build & examine your ongoing and future tasks.


As BookWorms ourselves, we will be more than happy if you can share in the comment section  your list of essential’s 


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