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The Top 9 Books About Starting a Business
1. Shortcut Your Startup: Ten Ways to Speed Up Entrepreneurial Success – Carter Milliken Reum and Courtney Reum 2. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams – Timothy Lister and Tom DeMarco 3. Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup – Bill Aulet 4.
- Shortcut Your Startup: Ten Ways to Speed Up Entrepreneurial Success – Carter Milliken Reum and Courtney Reum
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams – Timothy Lister and Tom DeMarco
- Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup – Bill Aulet
- The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company – Bob Dorf and Steve Blank
- The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup – Noam T. Wasserman
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win – Steve Blank
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable – Patrick Lencioni
- Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application – 37 Signals
- The Essential Drucker – Peter Drucker
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