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Books on Entrepreneurship
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#12I'd say reading a book on interpersonal relationships is better, then sales, then finance/accounting, THEN some entrepreneurial startup books. 1. How to win friends and influence people 2. 7 habits 3. Any good sales book (I liked http://www.amazon.com/10-Steps-Sales-Success-Shorten/dp/0814... ) http://www.amazon.com/Successful-Cold-Call-Selling-Examples/... 4. Accounting for dummies or something like that, same with…
Also worth mentioning in this context is To Sell Is Human by Daniel Pink.
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#13Having helped start a business & taken it from no revenue to mid 7 figures in revenue, I think what's missing from this list is books that convey how
1/ uncertain & dark the days of building a business are 2/ you're at the mercy of randomness (despite having a strong sense of agency)
In that sense, a few books that tell you that darkness is a rite of passage for building great companies would be
1/ Soul of a New Machine - http://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder-ebook/dp...
2/ Fooled by Randomness - http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Markets-Incer...
3/ Coders at Work - http://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Programm...
4/ The Innovators - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21856367-the-innovators
5/ The Hard thing about hard things - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-...
6/ Are your lights on? - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11221270-are-your-lights...
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#14Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra
http://www.amazon.com/Badass-Making-Awesome-Kathy-Sierra/dp/...
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#15About 15 years ago, I developed a startup challenge for micro-enterprises called the Thousand Rand Challenge (about $100 at the time). That became a large-scale project, starting 1,000 businesses simultaneously. We Creative-Commons the results here: http://startup.wikia.com/wiki/Thousand_Rand_Challenge
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#16An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes of The Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith 1776
Haha - I think maybe only the directors of The Adam Smith Institute have read the original. Fortunately, after one of them did, he wrote this:
http://www.adamsmith.org/sites/default/files/resources/conde...
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#17Having helped start a business & taken it from no revenue to mid 7 figures in revenue, I think what's missing from this list is books that convey how 1/ uncertain & dark the days of building a business are 2/ you're at the mercy of randomness (despite having a strong sense of agency) In that sense, a few books that tell you that darkness is a rite of passage for building great companies would be 1/ Soul of a New Mach…
Totally agree with you there. Will certainly check out those books and keep the list updated. Thanks for the suggestions :)
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#18I'd say reading a book on interpersonal relationships is better, then sales, then finance/accounting, THEN some entrepreneurial startup books. 1. How to win friends and influence people 2. 7 habits 3. Any good sales book (I liked http://www.amazon.com/10-Steps-Sales-Success-Shorten/dp/0814... ) http://www.amazon.com/Successful-Cold-Call-Selling-Examples/... 4. Accounting for dummies or something like that, same with…
Definitely! I particularly liked "How to win friends and influence people". And you're right, every job does involve selling and getting along with others :)
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#19I'd say reading a book on interpersonal relationships is better, then sales, then finance/accounting, THEN some entrepreneurial startup books. 1. How to win friends and influence people 2. 7 habits 3. Any good sales book (I liked http://www.amazon.com/10-Steps-Sales-Success-Shorten/dp/0814... ) http://www.amazon.com/Successful-Cold-Call-Selling-Examples/... 4. Accounting for dummies or something like that, same with…
Also worth mentioning in this context is To Sell Is Human by Daniel Pink.
Haven't read it, but heard very good things about it. Definitely on my reading list now :)
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#20Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra http://www.amazon.com/Badass-Making-Awesome-Kathy-Sierra/dp/...
Thanks for sharing, that looks like pretty cool book to read and recently published too :)