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Finding great startup books shouldn't mean scrolling for hours. This page collects the business books that consistently earn their place on readers' shelves.

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Lost and Founder

by Rand Fishkin

2018

Everyone knows how a startup story is supposed to go- a young, brilliant entrepreneur has an cool idea, drops out of college, defies the doubters, overcomes all odds, makes billions and becomes the envy of the technology world. This is not …

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Returnee Entrepreneurs and Tech Startups in India

by M H Bala Subrahmanya, Ganesaraman Kalyanasundaram, K M Sharath Kumar, Jon Thomas

2026

Returnee entrepreneurship is gaining traction globally. Returnee entrepreneurs tend to possess significant knowledge capital, international social capital, financial capital, managerial, and entrepreneurial skills, among others, relative to…

€99.95 list price

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The Startup Owner's Manual

by Steve Blank, Bob Dorf

2020

More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process outlined in the book, and it's taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and more than 100 ot…

€27.99 list price

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Startup Weekend

by Marc Nager, Clint Nelsen, Franck Nouyrigat

2011

Tested principles for transforming an idea into a fully operational company Startup Weekend—the organization behind 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, bui…

€16.99 list price

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Financing High-Tech Startups

by Robin P. G. Tech

2018

This book examines the adverse effects of complexity, information asymmetries, transaction costs, and uncertainty on investors’ decision making. It suggests mitigating those effects using appropriate and matching signals, and analyzes a sam…

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Microsoft Windows XP Power Productivity

by Jim Boyce

2006

The Keys to Your Productivity Are Right There, Inside Windows Windows XP is packed with utilities and other features that can help you work smarter and faster. The trick is knowing what they are and how and when to use them. Microsoft Windo…

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Startup Boards

by Brad Feld, Matt Blumberg, Mahendra Ramsinghani

2022

A comprehensive guide on creating, growing, and leveraging a board of directors written for CEOs, board members, and people seeking board roles. The first time many founders see the inside of a board room is when they step in to lead their …

€19.99 list price

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Fundamentals of Software Startups

by Anh Nguyen-Duc, Jürgen Münch, Rafael Prikladnicki, Xiaofeng Wang, Pekka Abrahamsson

2020

This book discusses important topics for engineering and managing software startups, such as how technical and business aspects are related, which complications may arise and how they can be dealt with. It also addresses the use of scientif…

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The Startup Community Way

by Brad Feld, Ian Hathaway

2020

The Way Forward for Entrepreneurship Around the World We are in the midst of a startup revolution. The growth and proliferation of innovation-driven startup activity is profound, unprecedented, and global in scope. Today, it is understood t…

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50 Failed Startup Lessons

by Alexander Small

2019

Failure sucks. You may have heard of the famous startup math: nine of out 10 startups fail. The bitter truth about failure hurts but the most important thing is that most entrepreneurs move on to do something else. It's not over until y…

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