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Ask HN : What are some great books an aspiring entrepreneur should read?
Over the summer, I've read several great books including "The Lean Startup", "Thinking, fast and slow", as well as design and marketing books.
During the next year, i'll try to follow up with a "challenge" : A book per week. Above all, I want to learn stuff concerning startups, computer science, design and marketing, but I'm willing to read just about anything as long as i'll learn something.
I've found several great lists, and started to cross-compile them for the best references. However, I felt like asking might yield interesting results.
So, what are, in your mind, the best books any aspiring entrepreneur should read ?
- sparkawk 14y agoThe Startup Owner's Manual
- dmix 14y agoPricing for Profit Startup Owners Manual Made to Stick Getting Real (37signals first book)
- chadbartels 14y agoRework
- dglassan 14y agoFounders at Work by Jessica Livingston It's a collection of interviews with founders who started successful companies.
- mindcrime 14y agoThere are several other good books in the "X at work" series as well. CIOs at Work, Venture Capitalists at Work, Coders at Work, etc.
- mindcrime 14y agoThe Four Steps to the Epiphany - Steve Blank The Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki Crossing The Chasm - Geoffrey Moore Business Model Generation - Alex Osterwalder The Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Also, see: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-must-read-books-for-entrepreneurs http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-must-read-books-for-entre... http://www.quora.com/Business-Books/What-business-books-must-an-entrepreneur-read http://www.quora.com/Business-Books/What-business-books-must... http://www.quora.com/What-are-3-books-you-would-suggest-any-entrepreneur-make-their-top-3-must-reads http://www.quora.com/What-are-3-books-you-would-suggest-any-... and http://personalmba.com/best-business-books/ http://personalmba.com/best-business-books/
- murz 14y agoHave you checked out the handful of books listed on the YCombinator "Startup Library" page (http://ycombinator.com/lib.html http://ycombinator.com/lib.html)?: Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Paul Graham: Hackers and Painters Jessica Livingston: Founders at Work
- vermasque 14y agoMJ DeMarco: The Millionaire Fastlane Regardless of what you read, you'll prove that you learned something if you do something with this stuff beyond reading.
- dangrossman 14y agoThe E-Myth Revisited
- maheshguruswamy 14y agoSurprised no one mentioned these.. Do more faster Ultralight startups