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Books like Without Their Permission
The best books like Without Their Permission are Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, The Lean Startup, and Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike. Without Their Permission by Alexis Ohanian is about entrepreneurship, internet culture, 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.
- 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 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.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
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.
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 Without Their Permission.
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 Without Their Permission.
Read the summary → - 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 Without Their Permission.
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 Without Their Permission.
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 Without Their Permission.
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 Without Their Permission.
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 Without Their Permission.
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 Without Their Permission.
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Books like Without Their Permission: quick answers
What are the best books like Without Their Permission?
The best books like Without Their Permission by Alexis Ohanian are Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Without Their Permission, such as entrepreneurship, internet culture, startups.
What should I read after Without Their Permission?
A natural next read after Without Their Permission is Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel. Both dig into startups. Other strong choices are The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz.
What books are similar to Without Their Permission by Alexis Ohanian?
Without Their Permission centers on entrepreneurship, internet culture, startups. Books with a similar feel include Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet, Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup by Brad Feld and David Cohen — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
