What books have you found to be helpful in starting your business?

Posted by chendy on Friday April 06, 2007 @12:18PM
from the self-post dept.

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Re:What books have you found to be helpful in starting your ... by domp on Friday April 06, 2007 @12:25PM (#9618)

There was a good thread about this a couple weeks ago. People recommended a lot of great books.

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=5572

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Re:What books have you found to be helpful in starting your ... by chendy on Friday April 06, 2007 @01:29PM (#9636)

Thanks for linking to that thread. i must have missed it before. There are definitely some interesting looking books in that list.

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Re:What books have you found to be helpful in starting your ... by chendy on Friday April 06, 2007 @12:21PM (#9615)

I'm trying to get some recommendations for books that might be helpful for a web startup. Personally, I have really found "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell and "Getting Real" by the 37signals folks to be really helpful. I've read lots of great articles via news.YC, and I'm hoping you can all recommend some good offline reading as well.

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Re:What books have you found to be helpful in starting your ... by Mistone on Friday April 06, 2007 @02:17PM (#9660)

The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber - its all about vision, systems, and building a business that can scale.

Small Giants by Bo Burlingham

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Re:What books have you found to be helpful in starting your ... by yaacovtp on Friday April 06, 2007 @12:25PM (#9619)

A stack of composition notebooks from back in grade school.

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Re:What books have you found to be helpful in starting your ... by chendy on Friday April 06, 2007 @01:31PM (#9638)

Is your business an online version of "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?"

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Re:What books have you found to be helpful in starting your ... by dawie on Friday April 06, 2007 @12:27PM (#9620)

The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki is a good one

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Re:What books have you found to be helpful in starting your ... by zaidf on Friday April 06, 2007 @12:53PM (#9626)

Think and Grow Rich - by Napoleon Hill

-Zaid

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