OnlyOnce is a great startup blog that Matt Blumberg writes (I don’t know Matt). Today, Matt published a great list of books called the Startup CEO “Bibliography”. It is an awesome list that should be shared widely. In addition, the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute at Johnson also has a list of Blogs & Books that is worth checking out (there is some overlap with Matt’s list).
Here is Matt’s list in full (his blog post obviously also lists them out):
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steven Gary Blank
- Running Lean by Ash Maurya
- The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphany by Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits
- Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business by Ram Charan
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen
- The Innovator’s Solution by Clay Christensen
- Purple Cow by Seth Godin
- The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- It’s Not Luck by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Blue Ocean Strategy by Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
- Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
- Inside the Tornado by Geoffrey Moore
- Escape Velocity by Geoffrey Moore
- Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
- Topgrading by Brad Smart
- The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard
- Whale Done by Ken Blanchard
- High Output Management by Andy Grove
- Three Signs of a Miserable Job by Patrick Lencioni
- The Five Temptations of a CEO by Patrick Lencioni
- The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive by Patrick Lencioni
- Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni
- The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni
- Hardball by George Stalk and Rob Lachenauer
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- The Eighth Habit by Stephen Covey
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Built to Last by Jim Collins
- Startup Communities: Building and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City by Brad Feld
- Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur by Brad Feld and Amy Batchelor
- Startup Metrics: Making sense of the numbers in your startup by Brad Feld (not yet published)
- Startup Boards: Getting the Most out of Your Board of Directors by Brad Feld and Mahendra Ramsinghani
- Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
- Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup by Brad Feld and David Cohen
And don’t forget Matt’s own book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business.
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