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. The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company – Bob Dorf and Steve Blank
  5. The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup – Noam T. Wasserman
  6. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win – Steve Blank
  7. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable – Patrick Lencioni
  8. Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application – 37 Signals
  9. The Essential Drucker – Peter Drucker

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