Top 10 books for startup owners
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Top-10 books for startup founders

1. Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup – By Bill Aulet

2. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers – By Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur

3. The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company – By Steve Blank and Bob Dorf

4. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth – By Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares

5. Spin-Selling – By Neil Rackham

6. The Magic of Thinking Big – By David J. Schwartz

7. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – By Robert B. Cialdini

8. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity – By David Allen and James Fallows

9. Screw It, Let’s Do It: Lessons in Life and Business – By Sir Richard Branson and Adrian Mulraney

10. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t – By Jim Collins

 

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