Here we share with you, 10 best books to read if you building a successful startup in 2022. Most startup founders and business owners might came across questions like :
- How to find an Idea?
- How to be a founder?
- How to build a product?
- How to get customers?
- How to build a kick-ass team?
- How to grow the startup?
- How to create an awesome company culture?
Here, these 10 books below might answer your questions as well as give you some lights on how to move forward as a startup founder.
1. The Startup Owner’s Manual by Steve Blank
Key points or quotes that might interest you from this book :
- Rule No.5: No business plan survives first contact with customers so use a business model canvas
- The founders define product vision and then use customer discovery to find customers and a market for that vision
2. Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Key points or quotes that might interest you from this book :
- “Monopoly is the condition of every successful business”
- “The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete”
3. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
Key points or quotes that might interest you from this book :
- Build a culture that rewards—not punishes—people for getting problems into the open where they can be solved
- Spend zero time on what you could have done, and devote all of your time on what you might do
4. The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
Key points or quotes that might interest you from this book :
- “the number-one job is to take care of each other. I didn’t always know that, but I know it now.”
- “You can’t prevent mistakes, but you can solve problems graciously.”
5. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Key points or quotes that might interest you from this book :
- “A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.”
- “if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.”
6. Inspired by Marty Cagan
Key points or quotes that might interest you from this book :
- “Keep the focus on minimal product. Your job as product manager is not to define the ultimate product, its to define the smallest possible product that will meet your goals”
- “We need teams of missionaries, not teams of mercenaries”
7. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
Key points or quotes that might interest you from this book :
- “Cognition attempts to make sense of the world: emotion assigns value.”
- “It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.”
8. Hooked by Nir Eyal
Key points or quotes that might interest you from this book :
- “79% of smartphone owners check their device within 15 minutes of waking up every morning.”
- “Products that require a high degree of behaviour change are doomed to fail.”
9. The Sales Acceleration Formula by Mark Roberge
Key points or quotes that might interest you from this book :
- “What is the most important goal the company needs to achieve? How can the sales compensation plan be aligned with this goal?”
- “When you are scaling a sales team, the to-do list is endless.”
10. Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman
Key points or quotes that might interest you from this book :
- “Do everything by hand until it’s too painful, then automate.”
- “First, you can take the market by surprise, bypassing heavily defended niches to exploit breakout opportunities.”
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Credit Note : The list and takes was originally shared by Tibo Maker in his Twitter account.
