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Books like The Startup Playbook
The best books like The Startup Playbook are Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, and The Lean Startup. The Startup Playbook by David S. Kidder is about entrepreneurship, startups, founder stories. 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.
- 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.
Shares startups and innovation with The Startup Playbook.
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 Lean Startup
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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.
Shares entrepreneurship and innovation with The Startup Playbook.
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- 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.
Shares entrepreneurship and startups with The Startup Playbook.
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.
Shares startups and leadership with The Startup Playbook.
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 The Startup Playbook.
Read the summary → - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace · Business
Creativity, Inc.
Shares startups and leadership with The Startup Playbook.
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 The Startup Playbook.
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 The Startup Playbook.
Read the summary → - The Ride of a Lifetime
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Robert Iger · Business
The Ride of a Lifetime is Robert Iger's account of his fifteen years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, from his appointment in 2005 to his planned retirement in 2020.
Shares entrepreneurship and leadership with The Startup Playbook.
Read the summary → - Behind the Cloud
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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.
Shares entrepreneurship and leadership with The Startup Playbook.
Read the summary → - Beyond Entrepreneurship
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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.
Shares entrepreneurship and leadership with The Startup Playbook.
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Books like The Startup Playbook: quick answers
What are the best books like The Startup Playbook?
The best books like The Startup Playbook by David S. Kidder are Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Startup Playbook, such as entrepreneurship, startups, founder stories.
What should I read after The Startup Playbook?
A natural next read after The Startup Playbook is Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel. Shares startups and innovation with The Startup Playbook. Other strong choices are Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston.
What books are similar to The Startup Playbook by David S. Kidder?
The Startup Playbook centers on entrepreneurship, startups, founder stories. Books with a similar feel include Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, The Art of the Start 2.0 by Guy Kawasaki — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
