Business & Startup Book Guides

Book guides on startups, entrepreneurship, leadership, strategy, innovation and building better businesses.

10 guides in this collection.

• The Lean Startup — Eric Ries

  Test assumptions before scaling them.

• Zero to One — Peter Thiel with Blake Masters

  Look for genuinely new value rather than automatic imitation.

• Good to Great — Jim Collins

  Put the right people in important roles before obsessing over strategy.

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz

  Leadership includes difficult decisions, not only vision.

• Start With Why — Simon Sinek

  Purpose can clarify what a brand stands for.

• The E-Myth Revisited — Michael E. Gerber

  A business needs systems, not only talented individuals.

• Rework — Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

  Keep the product and process as simple as possible.

• Blue Ocean Strategy — W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

  Look beyond existing industry assumptions.

• The $100 Startup — Chris Guillebeau

  A small offer can be enough to start learning.

• The 4-Hour Workweek — Timothy Ferriss

  Question whether every task truly needs your involvement.