I love innovation! In today’s world, a lot on the innovation is coming from startups who are challenging the status quo and the existing solutions, and trying to offer a new product or service. Being a venture capitalist for many years, I’ve seen thousands of motivated entrepreneurs as well as highly innovative startups, but unfortunately most of them fail. The books I recommend, all share advice from highly experienced and successful entrepreneurs, enabling new entrepreneurs to learn from their experience. These books are not theoretical ones but rather very practical, so any entrepreneur can adopt operational advice as well as an entrepreneurial mindset that has proven to lead to success.
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The Unstoppable Startup: Mastering Israel's Secret Rules of Chutzpah
Ben Horowitz is the cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most successful venture capitals in the world.
However, he chose to write a book from his experience and perspective as an entrepreneur. Ben’s descriptions and storytelling enables the reader to really feel what he felt, and completely identify with the challenges he went through.
I loved his references to rap music throughout the book– very creative.
Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup-practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn't cover, based on his popular ben's blog. While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he's gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with…
This is an amazing how-to, hands-on book, that really guides and help entrepreneurs to manage their startup.
You can tell that Eric Ries is highly acquainted with entrepreneurship, and has developed a methodology, that if implemented in the right way, can significantly reduce the high probability of a startup to fail.
'The Lean Startup changes everything.' - Harvard Business Review
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Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable.
The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
Essential reading for any ambitious entrepreneur, The Lean Startup will teach you to identify what your customers really want. You'll learn how to test your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it's too late.
With over a million copies sold across the globe, now is your time…
Social Security for Future Generations
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John A. Turner,
This book provides new options for reform of the Social Security (OASI) program. Some options are inspired by the U.S. pension system, while others are inspired by the literature on financial literacy or the social security systems in other countries.
An example of our proposals inspired by the U.S. pension…
He founded numerous successful startups, and Waze is probably the most famous one. Uri shares his vast entrepreneurial experience, in a practical, straight forward and smart manner. He touches upon every aspect of building and running a startup - all the way from addressing the problem you want to solve, recruiting the right people, fund raising, scaling globally and more.
Unicorns—companies that reach a valuation of more than $1 billion—are rare. Uri Levine has built two.
And in Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution, he shows you just how he did it.
As the cofounder of Waze—the world’s leading commuting and navigation app with more than 700 million users to date, and which Google acquired in 2013 for $1.15 billion—Levine is committed to spreading entrepreneurial thinking so that other founders, managers, and employees in the tech space can build their own highly valued companies.
Levine offers an inside look at the creation and sale of Waze and…
Both Peter Thiel and Blake Masters have real-life business and entrepreneurship experience, and thus their advice are practical ones.
The book is mainly addressing the mind-set that entrepreneurs should adopt and differentiates an evolutionary approach of a company vs. a revolutionary one, or as they call it, the vertical vs. the horizontal progress. It really makes you think of entrepreneurship and disruption in a more structured manner.
What Valuable Company Is Nobody Building? The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. This book is about how to get there. "Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how". (Elon…
Gifts from a Challenging Childhood
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Jan Bergstrom,
Learn to understand and work with your childhood wounds. Do you feel like old wounds or trauma from your childhood keep showing up today? Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed with what to do about it and where to start? If so, this book will help you travel down a path…
As strange as it may sound, many founders, entrepreneurs, CEO’s and business leaders don’t know how to answer the simple fundamental questions of “Why are you doing what you are doing?”, “What is the purpose of your company?” Why does it exist”?
Simon Sinek “codifies” what he believes is the differentiating edge of any successful company or leader – understanding, defining, and crystalizing the answer to the question “Why are you doing what you are doing?” in the deepest sense of the question. He calls it “The Golden Circle” model, which on one hand is a very simple model, but on the other hand is highly challenging the mindset of any entrepreneur, company, or business leader.
Being a venture capitalist for more than 15 years, I had the opportunity to meet thousands of startups, and to invest in quite a few. One of the things I’ve seen is that on one hand, many mistakes are being repeated by different entrepreneurs, but on the other, there’s a surprising common denominator to the ones that succeed. Based on this experience, I’ve tried to put together a hands-on guide to building and developing a successful technology startup. In the book, I share what I believe is the main factor behind Israel’s incredible track record of success in high-tech. A bold, can-do, audacious attitude known as Chutzpah. The book provides an insider’s perspective on Israel’s secret formula that has made it so successful in fostering the growth of technology businesses.
