Books like The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

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Rework

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.

Both dig into entrepreneurship.

02

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.

A kindred business read.

03

The E-Myth Revisited

Michael E. Gerber · Business

The E-Myth Revisited is Michael Gerber's diagnosis of why most small businesses fail — not because their owners lack technical skill, but because they confuse being good at a craft with knowing how to run a business.

Both dig into entrepreneurship.

04

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Richard Rumelt · Business

Good Strategy Bad Strategy is Richard Rumelt's indictment of the strategic planning process as it is practiced in most organizations, and his articulation of what genuine strategy actually requires.

A kindred business read.

05

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson · Business

Venture Deals is Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson's guide to understanding venture capital term sheets — the documents that define the economic and control terms of startup funding.

Shares entrepreneurship and finance with The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business.

06

AI Superpowers

Kai-Fu Lee · Business

AI Superpowers is Kai-Fu Lee's argument that the geopolitical competition to lead in artificial intelligence is primarily a two-country race between the United States and China, and that the outcome will reshape the global economy in ways most people haven't started to reckon with.

Both dig into entrepreneurship.

07

Anything You Want

Derek Sivers · Business

Anything You Want is Derek Sivers' account of building, running, and eventually selling CD Baby, the independent musician distribution company he founded accidentally in 1998 when a few friends asked him to sell their CDs online.

Both dig into entrepreneurship.

08

Behind the Cloud

Marc Benioff · Business

Behind the Cloud is Marc Benioff's account of building Salesforce from a startup in his apartment to the first cloud computing company to reach $1 billion in revenue.

Both dig into entrepreneurship.

09

Beyond Entrepreneurship

Jim Collins & William Lazier · Business

Beyond Entrepreneurship is Jim Collins's first major book, co-written with William Lazier and published in 1992, before the research that produced Built to Last and Good to Great.

Both dig into entrepreneurship.

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Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You

John Warrillow · Business

Built to Sell is John Warrillow's argument that every business owner — regardless of whether they ever intend to sell — should build their company as if they were going to.

Both dig into entrepreneurship.

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Disciplined Entrepreneurship

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.

Both dig into entrepreneurship.

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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.

Both dig into entrepreneurship.