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Books like Startup

Startup by Jerry Kaplan is about entrepreneurship, silicon valley, venture capital. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. 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.

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  2. Lost and Founder
    Lost and Founder

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    Lost and Founder

    Rand Fishkin · Business

    Rand Fishkin built Moz, the SEO software company, from a bootstrapped consultancy into a venture-backed business with millions in revenue — and then watched it nearly collapse under the weight of that growth.

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  3. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

    John Carreyrou · Business

    Bad Blood is Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed its proprietary technology could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood.

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  4. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
    Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

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    Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

    Jessica Livingston · Business

    Founders at Work is Jessica Livingston's collection of interviews with the founders of some of the most influential technology companies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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  5. 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

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    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

    Christopher Mayer · Business

    Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.

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  6. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
    7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

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    7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

    Hamilton Helmer · Business

    7 Powers is Hamilton Helmer's attempt to distill the full landscape of business strategy into a single rigorous framework.

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