List of must-read books for startups and entrepreneurs

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13 pointsmichalu4 comments

Hrm. I don't know. Some of these books are good, but there's definitely some fluff there too.

And... ultimately, I think it's better to get out there and do stuff rather than read about it.

I'm dyslexic, I hate reading. I've always taken the attitude of 'just do it' and 'learn from mistakes' but a couple of weeks ago I decide I will start reading at least a book a month.

After reading the Lean Startup I feel like I've learnt more about building Startups than what I have reading various startup related articles on HN all year.

I'm sure this isn't the case with all books but I wouldn't agree that it's better just to go out there and try to do stuff you don't really understand. You'll probably just be wasting your time in most cases.

I agree. It seems like the author of the post threw together a list of books that came out of a cursory search on Amazon. This is linkbait, and I'm flagging this post.

There are some good books in there, but a lot of them are pretty trashy!

In any case no-one should read that many books about entrepreneurship. Free time IMO in much better spent in reading fiction or history.

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