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the best entrepreneurship books

The entrepreneurship and startup books most often recommended by founders themselves — from Y Combinator partners to public-company CEOs. Hand-curated canon plus the contemporary operator-favourites.

36 books, ranked by how many of the 4,800 notable readers in our index have publicly recommended each one.

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Anything You Want: 40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur
Derek Sivers · 2015
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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Brent Schlender · 2015
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Built to Last
Erin Hahn · 2022
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great, 2)
Jim Collins · 2004
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Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
Paul Jarvis · 2019
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Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull · 2014
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Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
Geoffrey A. Moore · 2014
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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
Geoffrey A. Moore · 2006
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Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson · 2023
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance · 2015
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston · 2007
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High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove · 1995
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Made in America
Sam Walton · 2018
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Made in America
Bill Bryson · 2001
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Remote
Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson · 2013
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Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere
Tsedal Neeley · 2021
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Remote: Office Not Required
David Heinemeier Hansson & Jason Fried · 2013
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ReWork: (Vermilion Life Essentials)
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · 2010
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Sam Walton: Made in America
Sam Walton · 1993
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight · 2016
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Simon Sinek · 2009
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson · 2011
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Steve Jobs
Jessie Hartland · 2015
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Steve Jobs - iLeadership
Jay Elliot · 2011
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Steve Jobs & the Next Big Thing
Randall E. Stross · 1993
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The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
Chris Guillebeau · 2012
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The E-Myth Revisited : Why Most Small Businesses Dont Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber · 1995
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone · 2013
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz · 2014
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson · 2014
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The Lean Startup: A Complete Summary For Busy People
Vocreo Publishing · 2015
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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric Ries · 2011
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The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick · 2019
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Venture Deals
Brad Feld · 2011
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Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
Blake Masters · 2014
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel · 2014
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Methodology: each book is ranked by the number of recommenders in our index who have publicly endorsed it. Curated topics use a hand-picked book list; year-stamped pages query our index by publication year. More on methodology →