If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
Reid Hoffman (Linkedin founder)
Following is a list of top 21 books that we believe a must read for any Entrepreneur or startup. The original investors' concepts are rooted & built based on these principles
Sharpen the saw (Learning)
- Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. ( A. Lincoln)
- One of the most important lessons of the scientific method – if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
- Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer’s problem.
- Validated Learning:
- It is a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty in which startups grow.
- It is more concrete, more accurate, and faster than market forecasting or classical business planning.
The Books
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey
- The 7 Day Startup: You Don't Learn Until You Launch by Dan Norris
- The Lean Startup How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses By Eric Ries
- Go-Givers Sell More Book by Bob Burg and John David Mann
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days Written by: Jake Knapp , John Zeratsky , Braden Kowitz
- From insight to implementation by Andy Polaine
- Big Data: A revolution that transforms how we live, work & thinks by Mayer-Schonberger
- Virus of the Mind by Richard Brodie
- Connected by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Eating the Big Fish by Adam Morgan
- Storytelling – Branding in practice by Klaus Fog
- The Switch – How to change things when change is hard by Chip & Dan
- Heath A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink
- The Element – How Finding your passion changes everything by Ken Robinson
- Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity by Josh Linkner
- Bounce – The myth of talent and the power of practice by Matthew Syed
- The Two-Second Advantage by Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney
- The Idea Writers by Teressa Iezzi
- Velocity – The seven new laws of a world gone digital by Ahmed & Olander
- Start With Why by Simon Sinek
- The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5 by Taylor Pearson
