Books every startup founder should read - about entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership and more

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way... (2023)

Learn to build startups the indie way The indie way of building a startup What's the alternative? How about this: do things yourself and bui... (2024)

Claire Hughes Johnson has gone long on tactics and pragmatism, short on guff | Business. “Scaling people” is written by Claire Hughes Johnson, a te... (2023)

Zero to One has 71,775 ratings and 3,509 reviews. Andrew said: Having worked with Peter - and the PayPal mafia more generally - for almost 10 years... (2018)

A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or a... (2023)

Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' ... (2023)

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one. In The... (2018)

As Al Ries and Jack Trout—the world-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors of Positioning—note, you can build an impressive airplan... (2018)

Well known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Instacart, Coi... (2022)

The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that... (2023)

In their latest book, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and 'whatev... (2021)

Book review “If you see something below standard and do nothing, then you’ve set a new standard.” This sentence sums up this book nicely in my o... (2020)

To find the keys to greatness, Collins's 21-person research team read and coded 6,000 articles, generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transc... (2019)

* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller multiple years running * Translated into 20 languages, with more than half a million copies sol... (2023)

Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast reveals the secret to starting and sca... (2023)

High Growth Handbook book. Read 83 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Well-known technology executive and angel investor Elad ... (2020)

Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible for bring... (2023)

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates agree this 1969 classic is still the No. 1 business book of all time - CNBC Billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill G... (2019)

From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most important resource it has: its people. Having worked... (2023)