The Entrepreneurs Essential Startup Reading List

As an entrepreneur and keen reader I am often asked for book recommendations so here are my top picks:

1. Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
2. Crossing the Chasm
3. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
4. Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook
5. Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth
6. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
7. Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
8. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
9. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
10. The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
11. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
12. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future