What books are a must-read for any entrepreneur? 📚📑

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Let me begin 😄

🕵️ Defining the need (product)
Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick

📈 Building a Business
The E-Myth - Michael E. Gerber

📣 Marketing the Product
Magnetic Marketing - Dan Kennedy

💸 Growing Sales
Predictable Revenue - Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler

Om Wow · Accepted Answer

The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Made In America by Sam Walton

Lean Startup by Eric Ries

The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky

Jaka Koprivec · Answer

Thanks for sharing these Ivan, I have added them to my read list. I would recommend Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy - By Cindy Alvarez

Ivan Ralic · Answer

@jaka_koprivec great recommendation Jaka! I've never read it before, but I actually already have it on my reading list, so, upping the priority I guess 😅 By the way, Eric Ries, the author of Lean Startup actually launched the product on Product Hunt pretty recently: https://www.producthunt.com/prod...

Uma Venugopal · Answer

1. Atomic Habits
2. Never Split the difference
3. Grit
4. Courage to be disliked
5. The Founder's Dilemmas

Kwaku Amprako · Answer

4 hour work week
12 months to $1M
How to win friends and influence people

Jaka Koprivec · Answer

@ralic Haha I really recommend it, you will go through it in no time. Interesting! Will check the product out 😄

Ivan Ralic · Answer

@uma_venugopal 1-3 are AWESOME additions to my list 🚀

Things from 1. and 2. I use every single day, and the Grit is also a must-read 😄

Never read the 4. and 5. but I'll probably give them a try. Thanks for the recommendations! 😊

MAC · Answer

I would say The Lean Startup, Zero to One, and HOOKED (by Nir Eyal) changed my mind, but it's more like it FREED my mind.

As someone coming from a software developer background it's really hard not to get caught up in the little details all the time

Jamie Kim · Answer

My favorite book is Lean StartUp - Eric Ries

Michael Cash · Answer

Hooked by Nir Eyal

Ivan Ralic · Answer

@manjur_ahmed1 yeah exactly, Zero to One especially gives you that visionary mindset to really build something big 😄

I really need to read Hooked it was recommended by so many people already 😄

Ivan Ralic · Answer

@kwaku_amprako yeah #1 and #3 are awesome books. I use things from #3 almost every single day 😄

Never read 12 months to $1M, but putting it on the list 😄

Rishabh R · Answer

@ralic his value equation that is explained in a simple and practical manner

Rishabh R · Answer

$100M offer from Alex Hormozi

Ivan Ralic · Answer

@rishabhravindran awesome, thanks 😄

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