Ask HN: What books helped you in your entrepreneurship journey?

1. "Lean Startup" (pretty standard)

2. "Spin Selling" (sales)

3. "The Four-Hour Work Week" (not because of the way of life promised in the misleading title, but because of the links to useful Websites, and for motivational reading)

4. "The One Billion Dollar App" (silly title but fantastic book from an actual taxi app product manager - I almost didn't buy it because of the title, thank God I opened it anyway and started reading about viral marketing which like the tracking of pandemic is based on the r coefficient).

5. "Business Model Generation" (the mechanics of making money)

6. "The Startup Owner's Manual"

7. "Why Startups Fail" (anti-patterns - better read about them before you get trapped by them)

8. "The Company Secretary Handbook" (UK only)

9. "Die Unternehmergesellschaft (UG): Gründung, Geschäftsführung, Recht und Steuern für kleinere Unternehmen und Start-Ups" (Germany only)

10. "Founders At Work" (motivational)

11. "Financial Times Essential Guides Writing a Business Plan: How to win backing to start up or grow your business" (to get clarity, write a plan - for yourself, to align all co-founders and the team, to get VC funding, to convince yourself that the business is financially viable)

Build by Tony Fadell

You can get all the meaning you need from The Black Swan by just reading the first few chapters. Taleb has a nasty habit of saying the same thing over and over again and stretching it out to an entire book.

Sprint (product development and testing)

It left me with a more fundamental, "first principles" outlook on the 5 key stages of doing _anything_:

1. Understand

2. Explore

3. Decide

4. Prototype/Build

5. Test

So for example, when things often go wrong it's because a stage was skipped, done out of sequence, or extremely neglected.

1) The richest man in Babylon 2) The four agreement 3) Secrets of the Millionaire Mind