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Books like Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
The best books like Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days are The Startup Playbook, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, and The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston is about entrepreneurship, founder stories, startups. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Startup Playbook
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David S. Kidder · Business
The Startup Playbook is David Kidder's collection of firsthand lessons from forty prominent founders, including Reid Hoffman, Sara Blakely, Kevin Plank, and Alexis Ohanian.
Shares entrepreneurship and founder stories with Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days.
Read the summary → - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight · Memoir
Shoe Dog is Phil Knight's account of the first two decades of Nike, from the $50 loan he borrowed from his father in 1964 to fund his first shipment of Japanese running shoes to the company's IPO in 1980.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - The Hard Thing About Hard Things
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · Business
The Hard Thing About Hard Things is Ben Horowitz's account of what it actually feels like to run a company through crisis.
Both dig into startups.
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- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel · Business
Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.
Both dig into startups.
Read the summary → - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone · Business
The Everything Store is Brad Stone's account of Amazon's founding and growth from a book retailer to one of the most powerful companies in the world.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Disciplined Entrepreneurship
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Bill Aulet · Business
Bill Aulet's Disciplined Entrepreneurship is a structured walkthrough of 24 steps for building a new venture, developed from MIT's entrepreneurship curriculum and Aulet's own experience as a serial entrepreneur.
Shares entrepreneurship and startups with Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days.
Read the summary → - Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
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Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
Brad Feld and David Cohen · Business
Do More Faster is a collection of short essays and lessons drawn from the TechStars accelerator program, organized by Brad Feld and David Cohen, the program's co-founders.
Shares entrepreneurship and startups with Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days.
Read the summary → - Rework
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Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · Business
Rework is Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson's deliberately provocative argument against most conventional wisdom about building a business.
Shares entrepreneurship and startups with Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days.
Read the summary → - That Will Never Work
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Marc Randolph · Business
That Will Never Work is Marc Randolph's memoir of co-founding Netflix with Reed Hastings, covering the period from the original idea in 1997 through the company's IPO in 2002.
Shares entrepreneurship and startups with Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days.
Read the summary → - The Art of the Start 2.0
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Guy Kawasaki · Business
The Art of the Start 2.0 is Guy Kawasaki's updated guide to launching a company, product, or movement.
Shares entrepreneurship and startups with Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days.
Read the summary → - The Four Steps to the Epiphany
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steve Blank · Business
Steve Blank wrote The Four Steps to the Epiphany after watching hundreds of startups fail the same way: they built products based on untested assumptions, then discovered too late that no one wanted them.
Shares entrepreneurship and startups with Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days.
Read the summary → - The Startup Owner's Manual
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Steve Blank and Bob Dorf · Business
The Startup Owner's Manual is Steve Blank and Bob Dorf's expanded, updated version of Blank's earlier customer development framework, published seven years after The Four Steps to the Epiphany.
Shares entrepreneurship and startups with Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days.
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Books like Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days: quick answers
What are the best books like Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days?
The best books like Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston are The Startup Playbook by David S. Kidder, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days, such as entrepreneurship, founder stories, startups.
What should I read after Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days?
A natural next read after Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is The Startup Playbook by David S. Kidder. Shares entrepreneurship and founder stories with Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days. Other strong choices are Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.
What books are similar to Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston?
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days centers on entrepreneurship, founder stories, startups. Books with a similar feel include The Startup Playbook by David S. Kidder, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone, Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
