Books like The Business Blockchain

01

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.

02

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen · Business

Christensen's argument, published in 1997, is deceptively simple: the very practices that make companies excellent at serving their current customers — listening carefully, investing in proven technologies, targeting the most profitable segments — are precisely what causes them to miss disruptive innovations.

03

Platform Revolution

Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Paul Choudary · Business

Platform Revolution is the most systematic treatment available of how platform businesses — companies that facilitate interactions between two or more distinct groups — work differently from traditional pipeline businesses.

04

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries · Business

The Lean Startup is Eric Ries's argument that the biggest cause of startup failure is not building the wrong product — it's spending months or years building something before finding out whether anyone wants it.

05

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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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.