Recommended Entrepreneur Books

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A lightening round topic came up at today’s EO Accelerator monthly accountability group meeting about good business/entrepreneur books to read. I named a few off hand and realized I needed to have a better list available. Here’s a list of books that I own and recommend, representing about 50% of the business books that I own:

This is a pretty good list to start with. I recommend clicking through and reading about them on Amazon.com to learn more.

What else? What other books would you recommend?

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10 responses to “Recommended Entrepreneur Books”

May 19, 2010

Jamie Bardin

David —

Great list. There are a few more I might add…

— The Long Tail
— Leadership and Self Deception
— Death by Meeting
— New Venture Creation (the bible for entrepreneurs)
— Blink
— Fierce Conversations

Thanks again for the daily post…

Cheers,

J

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May 20, 2010

Vladik

Just finished Rework by the 37signals guys, loved it! Add it to your list.

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May 20, 2010

Adam

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are inspirational books for entrepreneurs. I also recommend Blue Ocean Strategy, The Effective Executive, Crossing the Chasm and Fooled by Randomness.

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May 20, 2010

Raghu Kakarala

“Startup” by Jerry Kaplan is an oldy (1997) but a good book – details the startup of GO corp which was the original tablet/mobile touchscreen company and how it got funded built its product and ultimately how it failed (and looking back it was just too far ahead of its time) – i loved reading it in the late 90’s crazy startup time and it is still a good book

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May 25, 2010

Barnaby

I would add to that something by Chris Anderson (like Free, or Long Tail), something by Malcolm Gladwell (like Blink, or Outliers).

… and “The world is flat” by Thomas Freedman.

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May 26, 2010

Tony Thompson

Agreed with Vladik.

Rework is great.

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