10 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

Kyle Ellicott
ReadWrite Labs
1 min readDec 12, 2015

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As entrepreneurs learning is a core function of our success, because of this, I created a list of books that I found and still find incredibly helpful when starting out as an entrepreneur. Whether you are launching your first company or your fourth, you’ll be sure to come away with a better understanding of how to grow your business.

  1. Venture Deals
  2. Zero to One
  3. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany
  4. The Hard Things About Hard Things
  5. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
  6. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
  7. Hooked
  8. Master the Finance Game: A Guide to Building Financial Models, Valuing Companies, and Raising the Right Type of Capital
  9. Fundraising Field Guide
  10. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Honorable Mentions:

  1. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
  2. Rework
  3. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

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Kyle Ellicott
ReadWrite Labs

Writing about #Blockchain, #DApps, #Digitization, and all things #Distributed. Host of Blockchain Today