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Ask HN: Best books to build up entrepreneurial mindset?

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Re: Ask HN: Best books to build up entrepreneurial mindset?

#11

Agree with the comment that you need to start. Having now my third (small) business. After I have had a ML-startup. I learned most by doing it. There are so many things you need to do and know as a business owner (product development, marketing, sales, HR, finance). You need to learn to quickly grasp the basics and then implement it. I would certainly recommend reading books about entrepreneurship as they help to sha…

> Disguised as: ‘I need to learn just a bit more and then I am ready’.

Not relevant to me (OP), as I have already started multiple endeavors (and failed most of them).

So any decent books recommendations are still welcome. Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: Best books to build up entrepreneurial mindset?

#13
You have to weigh the balance: is time spent reading books with second hand knowledge worth more than time spent actually doing it and learning first hand? At some point you have enough knowledge to stop absorbing lessons from others to start adding your own. The most obvious ones are explained in five minutes:

- keep an eye on your cash, it is possible to go bankrupt with a viable business just by running out of cash on hand

- limit recurring costs

- limit recurring costs

- don't hire until you really have to

- sell first then perfect your product

- limit recurring costs.

Re: Ask HN: Best books to build up entrepreneurial mindset?

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> book This is one of those things where you actually have to Do It instead of Read Theory.

It's rarely advised to go into any complex endeavor without any education, that's just bad advice

Yeah that's advice for those who read so much that they cannot have time to do (I'm one of them :) A kind of procrastination.

Maybe there's a tipping point where the advice starts working, but anyway not great advice for a complete starter.

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