From Steve Jobs to Jack Ma. Understand what great entrepreneurs have in common, and what pitfalls you need to be wary of!

Entrepreneurship

Aimed at entrepreneurs, the book explains how venture capitalists (VCs) make decisions, structure investments, and collaborate with startups. Kupor covers key concepts, like term sheets, equity distribution, and governance, offering insights into why VCs invest selectively and how founders can navigate funding challenges. He also explores VC’s broader impact on innovation and economic growth. With practical advice from both an entrepreneur’s and investor’s perspective, this book is dedicated to anyone seeking VC funding or understanding the startup ecosystem.

Secrets of Sand Hill Road

“Million Dollar Weekend” is more than just another business book—it’s a high-energy, no-nonsense execution manual for anyone looking to transform an idea into a profitable business in just 48 hours. Designed for entrepreneurs, side hustlers, and anyone who wants to take control of their financial future, Kagan’s book blends real-life experiences, humor, and actionable strategies to make starting a business feel both accessible and achievable.

Million Dollar Weekend

“Testing Business Ideas” is an invaluable book for entrepreneurs, business executives, and innovators who want to systematically test their business ideas before investing significant resources. In the world of startups and product development, assumptions about what customers want and what will make a business successful are often made without testing, leading to costly mistakes and failures. Osterwalder and Bland address this issue head-on, offering a practical framework for testing business ideas with a focus on reducing risk and increasing the chances of success.

Testing Business Ideas

With high-level insights into actionable, step-by-step frameworks, Olsen helps readers solve the daunting challenge of building products that customers love and find product-market fit. This book is based on Lean Startup methodology, but it goes further in taking high-level concepts and translating them into practical strategies that teams can apply immediately. Specifically, Olsen focuses on how to put theory into action, a critical gap that has yet to be filled in the Lean Startup movement. While books like The Lean Startup and Running Lean introduce foundational concepts, they often leave readers wondering how to apply them in real-world situations. Olsen remedies this with specific guidance, tools, and real-life examples.

The Lean Product Playbook

Give life and voice to your product. The right place to learn to sell and promote!

Marketing & Sales

Not that long ago, Alex Hormozi was yet another entrepreneur with a failing business – in his case, a gym. Then, over the next 4 years, he went from losing money to making $36 for every $1 spent. How did he do it? He explains in full in “$100M Offers.” Spoiler alert: it was neither great funnels nor great ads that did it. It was his trademarked Grand Slam Offer.

$100M Offers

It’s time to start making good investments and learn how to manage your money better. 

Investing & Finance

Do you believe that a lack of money can be the greatest advantage for entrepreneurs? It is simply because being broke makes them more determined to turn their business into a success. No one knows this better than the FUBU founder Daymond John whose initial budget for starting a business was only $40. In his book, he reveals what it takes to embrace the power of broke mindset and build a business empire - just like he himself did.

The Power of Broke

What great leaders are made of? Learn from the people who have more to offer in the realm of leadership than just words. 

Management & Leadership

The best microbooks on Emotional Intelligence to make you overcome obstacles in your personal and professional life.

Emotional Intelligence

What does it take to become a successful leader in business? CEOs and entrepreneurs alike need to learn to think five moves ahead. Knowing yourself, planning in advance and staying calm in the face of problems are the hallmarks of a successful business person. “Your Next Five Moves” provides you with tools and tales for how to lead a company to success.

Your Next Five Moves

Guy Raz spent years interviewing successful entrepreneurs on how they founded their businesses. “How I Built This” presents his insights: the entrepreneur’s journey is much like a hero’s journey, where he will face challenges but will eventually emerge victorious on the other side. With many examples from real life entrepreneurs and companies, Raz provides a manual on how to start and maintain a successful company.

How I Built This

Build a solid career, learn how to run your business and inspire other people to do the same.

Career & Business

“How to Work from Home and Make Money” by Sam Kerns is a simple how-to guide to working remotely. The book explains what it means to be in business for yourself, dispels the most common myths about self-employment and outlines 13 different startup plans for online and off-line businesses.

How to Work from Home and Make Money

Peter Thiel is one of the most successful entrepreneurs and investors of our time. Famous for having co-founded PayPal and having been the first outside investor for Facebook, he now shares his wisdom on successful entrepreneurship in “Zero to One.” He suggests a counterintuitive path to founding a new company - by changing thinking, believing in secrets, and creating a founding mafia.

Zero to One

 Learn the methods of effective communication, and understand what drives corporate culture. 

Corporate Culture & Communication

Take a sneak-peek into the private lives of people who left a mark in world history.

Biographies & Memoirs

Ed Catmull, the co-founder of Pixar, has spent his entire professional career improving the work environment at Pixar. His aim has always been to foster creativity, but even more importantly, to make sure that problems are approached and solved as a team. In his eye-opening book “Creativity, Inc.,” he gives riveting behind-the-scenes insights into productions of hit films such as “Toy Story” and “Monsters, Inc.” He also gives a very personal account of Steve Jobs, and insightful tips on how all companies can encourage creativity in their workplaces. After all, creativity nurtures innovation!

Creativity, Inc.

“The E-Myth Revisited” is the revised and updated edition of Michael E. Gerber’s 1986 cult classic, “The E-Myth.” A small business classic, the book tears apart “the fatal assumption” regarding startups, draws the three different hats one needs to wear as a business owner and explores the three phases of a business’s growth, while outlining the seven steps to a successful business development program.

The E-Myth Revisited

How did we get here? See which ideas shaped the course of history, and how philosophy played a significant role in human evolution.

History & Philosophy

Get inspired, build great plans, reach your goals, live happier!

Self-Help & Motivation

“Where Good Ideas Come From” is an engaging, funny book that evocatively points out the similarities between the history of innovation and the evolution of the natural world. It outlines the parallels between the printing press and flying, and penicillin and peacock feathers. Full of surprising anecdotes, this book will help you to become a bit more innovative as well.

Where Good Ideas Come From

How have Walt Disney, IBM, Boeing and other great companies managed to stay successful for more than a century, in some cases? Contrary to what you may believe, these visionary companies are not defined by their ideas or their leaders, but by their commitment to build a lasting organization. All visionary companies have a driving force - a central ideology - that keeps them on the right path. “Built to Last” reveals the secrets to the long-lasting success of a company.

Built to Last

GDP, Trade balance, foreign capital. Everything about global trade is here!

Economics

“The Four Steps to the Epiphany” was first published in the early 2000s and started the lean startup revolution. It changed the way the founding and execution of startups was approached by shifting the focus from the product to the customer. Focus on product development works for big, established companies who already have a customer base to work with – but a startup needs to focus on building a customer base to be able to make the leap to becoming a successful company first.

The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Are you struggling to create sustainable growth in your company? Are you wondering if you have what it takes? “From Impossible to Inevitable” is the ultimate guide for anyone wanting to hypergrow their company. From creating leads to doubling your deal size, “From Impossible to Inevitable” will help you along every step of the way.

From Impossible To Inevitable

Work fewer hours. Stay small. Don’t accept outside investors. Don’t look at the competition. Say “no” to your best ideas. “Rework” is full of counterintuitive advice to create a lasting and successful company. By offering a fresh look at established business practices, Fried and Hansson provide actionable advice on how you, and anyone else, can build a sustainable business.

Rework

“Built, Not Born” by Tom Golisano is a guide for the new or aspiring entrepreneur or business owner from a proven pro who started his own company and worked his way to the top. It discusses the qualities an entrepreneur should have. The title says it all: business leaders are not always “born” – you can build your way to a successful business.

Built, Not Born

An easy-to-read business fable, “The New One Minute Manager” is a minor update of “The One Minute Manager,” the bestselling management book of the 20th century. Just like the original, it uses a simple parable to present and illustrate the three secrets of one-minute management: one-minute goals, one-minute praisings, and one-minute redirects.

The New One Minute Manager

“But I’m Not an Expert” by Meera Kothand is a brief, but comprehensible how-to marketing guide for real-world entrepreneurs who want to position themselves as experts. If you share the same feeling, this book will show you how to create value and differentiate yourself, as well as how to build authority and market your expertise.

But I'm Not an Expert!

In his long-awaited debut book, “Principles,” Bridgewater founder and 79th wealthiest person of the world Ray Dalio shares with the world the guiding rules of his life and work. The product of decades of failure-and-learn experiences, Dalio’s principles can help you shape not only a successful organization – but also a meaningful and authentic existence.

Principles

True to its subtitle, “Working for Yourself” by Stephen Fishman is a comprehensive guide to all legal and tax issues that might interest independent contractors, freelancers, and gig workers of all kinds. Currently in its 11th edition, the book is generally considered the foremost legal and tax resource for the self-employed in the United States.

Working for Yourself

“Losing My Virginity” is the first part of the autobiography of Richard Branson – the most colorful and the least boring of all great 20th-century entrepreneurs. As outrageous and inspiring as its author, the book covers the first 40 or so years of Branson’s life – and it lets you get a frank look behind the scenes of the rise and rise of the original “adventure capitalist.”

Losing My Virginity

The marketing approach of the 20th century no longer works because customers’ expectations from the market have changed. In “Making Meaning,” Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, and Darrel Rhea share the findings of their research into the elements of sales that constitute meaningful customer experience. They identify the principles and processes of creating and delivering meaning.

Making Meaning

Distilling and expanding on the questions asked during his YouTube show, “#AskGaryVee,” by Gary Vaynerchuk, gives a lot of useful tips on how to best leverage different marketing and social media platforms. His philosophy of “clouds and dirt,” or having a vision and discipline to practically follow through, is generously shared in rationality along with guidelines on how to create quality content.

#AskGaryVee

Designed to face extreme uncertainty, startups create a scalable and repeatable business model. In “The Lean Startup,” Eric Ries shares his insight on what he calls the lean methodology and explains why the build-measure-learn cycle is essential to achieve successful product development.

The Lean Startup

New products, new technologies. See the future with the eyes of ingenuity.

Technology & Innovation

Marc Benioff is regarded as the father of the software industries as a service and cloud computing. His company, Salesforce.com, is simply the biggest success case of setting up a company that has made $ 1 billion in revenue in just 10 years. Behind the Cloud reveals how Benioff took a new idea, a powerful concept from paper, and differentiated himself from his competitors by creating a whole new movement where users no longer need to install software on their computers. The softwares are always available, on demand, in the cloud.

Behind the Cloud

To reach the product/market fit, that is, having a product that people want and that you can sell is the primary objective, and it comes through quantitative validation. For recurring goods and subscriptions, you have some traction when you can retain at least 40% of your active users month after month. Ash recommends that you use the test of the great marketing professional Sean Ellis, who helped companies like Dropbox scale up and reach millions of users. The test is simple. In your product, ask the users "How disappointed would you be if you could not use our product anymore?" With answer options: Very disappointed, a little disappointed, not disappointed. If more than 40% of people say they would be very disappointed, there is a good chance that you will be able to build a scalable machine for growth and customer acquisition.

Running Lean

Entrepreneurs suffer. It was not enough to struggle to get the first customers and start scaling, there was yet another problem. Generally, advice given to startups tends to contain generalities full of keywords, and this makes it easy for us to get lost in an ocean of endless advice. In Traction, Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares share their practical experiences on how to really grow a business. To make a startup grow, what is more, important than the product itself is knowing how to reach out to customers. Distribution is everything, and this is the subject addressed in the book. Traction goes through some customer acquisition channels and helps you choose the best ones for your business. Do not miss this microbook based on the original book. Let’s go?

Traction

The great management thinker and well-known executive Jack Welch describes Sam Walton as "A guy who understood people as Thomas Edison knew innovation and Henry Ford understood production". He was able to bring out the best of his employees, gave his best to his customers and taught something of value to everyone he met. "And that's why the 12 'team chose to bring Made In America to you because he is a hero who represents the American dream. He transformed a grocery store from a city within the United States into the world's largest retail chain, Walmart.That did not make him stop being a shy and obsessed guy. His inspiration and optimism are examples for any entrepreneur.

Sam Walton: Made In America

Anik Singal puts forth the perspective that entrepreneurship is not a profession nor a certain area of expertise but a mindset. It is all about problem-solving, and his book “eSCAPe” provides a step-by-step approach: identify a problem, be innovative, become a leader, solve the issue, and create value for the end-user.

eSCAPe

Explore the work-ethic of productive people and get a glimpse into the techniques that helped them reach a high level of success.

Productivity & Time Management

Basecamp founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson present a comprehensive to-the-point exploration of the work-from-home phenomenon in “Remote.” The book illuminates the benefits of working remotely for both companies and employees and also reveals why the time has finally come to “move the work to the workers, rather than the workers to the workplace.”

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