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Entrepreneurs learn by doing, but there are also books you can read to help along the way.

    The best books on Running a Business, recommended by Brian O'Kelley

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    The best books on Running a Business - The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

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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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    The best books on Running a Business - Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey Moore

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    Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
    by Geoffrey Moore

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    The best books on Running a Business - Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg

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    Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
    by Sheryl Sandberg

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    The best books on Running a Business - Brave, Not Perfect: How Celebrating Imperfection Helps You Live Your Best, Most Joyful Life by Reshma Saujani

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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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    The best books on Running a Business - Startup Leadership: How Savvy Entrepreneurs Turn Their Ideas Into Successful Enterprises by Derek Lidow

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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 - The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
  • The best books on Running a Business - Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey Moore
  • The best books on Running a Business - Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
  • The best books on Running a Business - Brave, Not Perfect: How Celebrating Imperfection Helps You Live Your Best, Most Joyful Life by Reshma Saujani
  • The best books on Running a Business - 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

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.

The best books on Running a Business, recommended by Brian O'Kelley

    The best books on Entrepreneurship, recommended by Thomas Hellmann

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    The best books on Entrepreneurship - The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself by Daniel Boorstin

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    The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
    by Daniel Boorstin

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    The best books on Entrepreneurship - Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

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    Steve Jobs
    by Walter Isaacson

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    The best books on Entrepreneurship - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries

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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 best books on Entrepreneurship - The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup by Noam Wasserman

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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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    The best books on Entrepreneurship - Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed by Josh Lerner

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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 - The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself by Daniel Boorstin
  • The best books on Entrepreneurship - Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  • The best books on Entrepreneurship - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
  • The best books on Entrepreneurship - The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup by Noam Wasserman
  • The best books on Entrepreneurship - 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

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.

The best books on Entrepreneurship, recommended by Thomas Hellmann

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