I’m sure this Top 150 list is both inspiring and incomplete, fascinating and controversial. Feel free to praise it, vilify it, or both. Books such as The 7 Habits and Predictably Irrational had to go. I also removed any publications that were not explicitly written about or for startups/scaleups. I calculated the average of these findings to get a list that is biased towards recent, favorite, quality books. For several hours, I then used the recommendation engine of GoodReads to find all related books until I exhausted both myself and the AI and we both needed a coffee.įinally, I ranked the many books I found by their average rating on GoodReads (an indication of quality), their number of reviews (popularity), and their age (antiquity). ![]() I began by googling for “best books for startups and entrepreneurs” and by asking founders in various groups about their favorite entrepreneurial publications. Combined with my love for books and my passion for lists, it is easy to see why I spent a rainy weekend researching all the books I could find (in English) about and for entrepreneurs and founders. ![]() That’s why people never get tired of making them and discussing them.Īs the founder of Agility Scales, I need to learn as much as possible about what it takes to start, run, and scale a company. ![]() Pop lists are always insightful and always wrong. Popularity lists have the amazing ability to condense a complex system into a simple overview that is guaranteed to be fascinating and controversial.
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