Books for Startups

If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Skills:Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Author:Peter Thiel

Page Number:195 pages

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 companies are built and new products are launched.

Skills:The Lean Startup is an important and highly acclaimed book for new startup ventures.

Author:Eric Ries

Page Number:299 pages

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.

Skills:Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Author:Ben Horowitz

Page Number:304 pages

Hooked is based on Eyal’s years of research, consulting, and practical experience. He wrote the book he wished had been available to him as a start-up founder—not abstract theory, but a how-to guide for building better products. Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behavior.

Skills:How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Author:Nir Eyal , Ryan Hoover

Page Number:256 pages

Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over?

Skills:How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Author:Simon Sinek

Page Number:256 pages

Walter Isaacson's worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.

Skills:Steve Jobs

Author:Walter Isaacson

Page Number:630 pages

Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.

Skills:Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors

Author:Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Page Number:279 pages

What matters most to you? Should you focus on earning a living, pursuing your passions, or devoting yourself to the causes that inspire you? The surprising truth is that you don’t have to choose—and that you’ll find more success if you don’t. That’s the breakthrough message of TOMS’ One for One movement. You don’t have to be rich to give back and you don’t have to retire to spend every day doing what you love. You can find profit, passion, and meaning all at once—right now.

Skills:Love your work, work for what you love, and change the world—all at the same time.

Author:Blake Mycoskie

Page Number:208 pages

You can achieve anything you want if you have control over your thoughts. You can replicate the life of a winner in you or you can be your enemy. It solely depends on which staircase you select for yourself; a positive value staircase or a negative value staircase.

Skills:We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. -Buddha

Author:Durgesh Satpathy

Page Number:125 pages

Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. While the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation and encouragement, Marcus Aurelius also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a timeless collection that has been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and readers throughout the centuries.

Skills:Meditations

Author:Marcus Aurelius, Martin Hammond

Page Number:254 pages