"The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law" --
LLC vs C-corp vs S-Corp? Founder’s vesting? Liquidation Preferences? Equity vs Debt financing? This book will educate you enough to be able to answer these and many other important questions.
"Bootstrapping Your Business" --
From the founder of RightNow. The amazing story of how a geographically-challenged (Montana) entrepreneur built a world class business.
"Purple Cow" --
Dead simple premise, the key to marketing is to build something remarkable.
"The Art of the Start" --
The Art of Pitching, Marketing and Funding your Startup.
"The Innovator’s Dilemma" --
If your startup beats all the odds and becomes hugely successful prepare yourself for the innovator’s dilemma, cannibalize your product before someone else does.
"The E-Myth Revisited" --
How-to create a business not a job.
"Permission Marketing" --
The greatest marketing asset your startup can build is the permission to market to your customers and prospects.
"Growing a Business" --
Sincere advice for creating a company culture that your team and customers will love.
"The Cluetrain Manifesto" --
Successful marketing is a conversation.
"Bottom-up Marketing" --
Pure bottoms-up execution. Marketing tactics to grow your business.
Re:Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
by JoeCortopassi on Friday August 26, 2011 @10:39AM
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I'm sure it's a good list of books, but you can't really talk about entrepreneurship without mentioning Steven Gary Blank's "Four Steps to the Epiphany"
> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
Re:Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
by mhd on Friday August 26, 2011 @04:56PM
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I really liked Kindle's samples in this regard. Most of it is a few pages from the introduction, and most of the time that's very representative for the those types of books. If it starts with a recollection of the author's childhood or the experiences of a client, you can ditch it most of the time…
Re:Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
by krschultz on Friday August 26, 2011 @02:40PM
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Meh, I didn't find it that great. I thought the reading list was great but 'skin deep generalizations' is equivalent to 'high level summaries' in my opinion.
Re:Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
by DrewG on Friday August 26, 2011 @03:36PM
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Prehaps entrepreneurs should stop reading and start doing. Some things are just impossible to learn from a book, and even the things that can be learned from a book can be learned faster and better through personal experience.
Re:Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
by rewind on Friday August 26, 2011 @04:32PM
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That's way too broad and general. The problems that hit entrepreneurs along the way are often things they don't know they should be learning before it's too late. By that point, the only thing you're learning from is your mistakes, and that's no way to learn if you can avoid it.
"The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law" -- LLC vs C-corp vs S-Corp? Founder’s vesting? Liquidation Preferences? Equity vs Debt financing? This book will educate you enough to be able to answer these and many other important questions.
"Bootstrapping Your Business" -- From the founder of RightNow. The amazing story of how a geographically-challenged (Montana) entrepreneur built a world class business.
"Purple Cow" -- Dead simple premise, the key to marketing is to build something remarkable.
"The Art of the Start" -- The Art of Pitching, Marketing and Funding your Startup.
"The Innovator’s Dilemma" -- If your startup beats all the odds and becomes hugely successful prepare yourself for the innovator’s dilemma, cannibalize your product before someone else does.
"The E-Myth Revisited" -- How-to create a business not a job.
"Permission Marketing" -- The greatest marketing asset your startup can build is the permission to market to your customers and prospects.
"Growing a Business" -- Sincere advice for creating a company culture that your team and customers will love.
"The Cluetrain Manifesto" -- Successful marketing is a conversation.
"Bottom-up Marketing" -- Pure bottoms-up execution. Marketing tactics to grow your business.
OTOH Rob Walling's Start Small, Stay Small has tangible, actionable, information.
> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
Could we crop the title please?
http://www.getabstract.com/
Very nice; you can just subscribe to the business books feeds, read the 3-page PDF summaries, and decide if you care to read any deeper.
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Just finished reading Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt. Very good book.
Entrepreneur should do 2 things:
1) Work
2) Stop doing stupid things.