5 Business Books YOU Need to Read

Mitchell Cross
3 min readMay 2, 2020

Here is a quick list of five business books that you need to read! I have read all five of these myself and have taken away different things from each one!

  1. The Lean Startup- By Eric Ries (336 pages)

This is the first book that I always recommend to people who are looking to learn about the process of starting a business and the importance of saving your money in the beginning stages. Eric Ries really focuses on the importance of understanding your business as a startup and realizing that initial investments should be kept to a minimum. According to research done by the Harvard Business School, 75% of all startups fail. The startup phase is one of the hardest phases to be apart of because it comes with many challenges. Everything may be going smoothly but like Mike Tyson says “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”.

2. The Power of Broke by Damond John (290 pages)

I absolutely love this book because it’s extremely relatable to the typical reader. Most people…

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Mitchell Cross

22 year old entrepreneur attending Indiana Unviersity majoring in Economics.