Entrepreneurs learn by doing, but there are also books you can read to help along the way.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
by Ben Horowitz -
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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
by Geoffrey Moore -
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg -
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Brave, Not Perfect: How Celebrating Imperfection Helps You Live Your Best, Most Joyful Life
by Reshma Saujani -
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Startup Leadership: How Savvy Entrepreneurs Turn Their Ideas Into Successful Enterprises
by Derek Lidow
The best books on Running a Business, recommended by Brian O'Kelley
The best books on Running a Business, recommended by Brian O'Kelley
Running a successful business is an endless series of impossible challenges, a constant mix of terror and euphoria, explains Brian O’Kelley, co-founder of the billion-dollar ad tech company AppNexus and now at Scope3. He tells us which books every entrepreneur needs to read and why it’s so helpful to learn from those who have gone before.
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
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Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson -
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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries -
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The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
by Noam Wasserman -
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed
by Josh Lerner
The best books on Entrepreneurship, recommended by Thomas Hellmann
The best books on Entrepreneurship, recommended by Thomas Hellmann
What are the best books to read if you want to be an entrepreneur? Oxford Saïd Business School’s Thomas Hellmann, DP World Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, shares his top five books—and explains what entrepreneurs can learn from them.
