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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorFree: The Future of a Radical Price
Chris Anderson
The New York Times bestselling author heralds the future of business in Free.In his revolutionary bestseller, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before. Now, in Free, he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving thi
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone · 384 pages
This book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disrup
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
Dan Senor, Saul Singer · 320 pages
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK?With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler · 328 pages
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
Duncan Clark · 295 pages
Traces the founding of Alibaba, the world's second largest Internet company, by an English teacher from humble origins, drawing on exclusive interviews to explore how the company and Jack Ma have become icons and leading employers in China's booming private sector.
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience
Jeff Gothelf · 194 pages
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Guy Kawasaki · 226 pages
A new product, a new service, a new division, a new anything—where there's a will, here's the way
How Google Works
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg · 303 pages
The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets
Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters · 224 pages
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One , legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological st
The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success
Eric Jorgenson · 371 pages
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Brad Kowitz · 288 pages
From three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies. Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the rig
Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O'Reilly · 301 pages
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Nir Eyal · 242 pages
Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern unlying how technologies hook us? Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model - a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior. Through consecutive
Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies
Lawrence M. Miller · 240 pages
Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence and How You Can Too – A State-of-the-Art Guide to Personal Branding and Social Media
Gary Vaynerchuk · 293 pages
Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Biz Stone · 224 pages
"Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career. THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positiv
The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
Matthew L. Ball · 352 pages
Rework
Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson · 279 pages
Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the c
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
Steven Gary Blank, Bob Dorf · 608 pages
"The Startup Owner's Manual is what it says: a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to getting startups right. It walks entrepreneurs through the customer development process that gets them out of the building, where customers live, to develop winning products customers will buy"-- "More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book for detailed, step-by-step instructions on building successful, scal
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston · 482 pages
Presents the profiles of the founders of thirty-two start-up technology companies, discussing how their ideas originated, the obstacles thay overcame to make their companies grow into successful ventures, and the influence that many of these companies have on the Internet culture.
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
Geoffrey A. Moore, Regis McKenna · 227 pages
Crossing the Chasm (1991; rev. 1999) demonstrates the existence of distinct marketing challenges for each market segment in the life cycle of new technology-based products. A significant gulf -- the "chasm" -- exists between the market made up of early adopters and the markets of more pragmatic buyers. To cross the chasm, a product team must identify the needs of pragmatic buyers and deliver a "wh
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
Patty McCord · 228 pages