100 Best Books on How to Start a Business

If you are someone dreaming to start own business, there is a way to go around enrolling to business school.

Many successful CEOs & entrepreneurs have actually never been to college and yet they are among the most knowledgeable individuals in their business and industry. This is possible because they have the habit of improving their knowledge & skill set by reading books which are considered to be a key factor for their enduring growth.

Reading is a crucial part of becoming an entrepreneur and building your first business. But knowing which books to start with can be quite perplexed.

So, we at Mondovo have pulled a list of 100 best inspiring and informative books on how to start a business. Pick a few, or read them all, and take a giant step toward making your entrepreneurial dreams come true.

1. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

Our Rating: 4.06/5

1. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

2. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

3. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

4. How to Buy, Sell & Profit on eBay: Kick-Start Your Home-Based Business in Just Thirty Days

5. The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

6. High Growth Handbook

7. INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

8. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

9. Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days

10. The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage

11. The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime!

12. Venture Deals, Third Edition: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

13. Zone to Win: Organizing to Compete in an Age of Disruption

14. Kindle Bestseller Publishing: Write a Bestseller in 30 Days! (Beginner Internet Marketing Series Book 5)

15. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence

16. How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

17. The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

18. Small Time Operator: How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Stay Out of Trouble

19. Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works

20. Lost and Founder: The Mostly Awful, Sometimes Awesome Truth about Building a Tech Startup

21. Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy – and How to Make Them Work for You

22. Disciplined Entrepreneurship

23. The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-It-Like-It-Is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You Are at the End of Your Roll

24. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Change Management (including featured article “Leading Change,” by John P. Kotter)

25. Start Your Own Corporation: Why the Rich Own Their Own Companies and Everyone Else Works for Them (Rich Dad Advisors)

26. Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets

27. The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup

28. Restaurant Success by the Numbers: A Money-Guy’s Guide to Opening the Next Hot Spot

29. The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success

30. Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

31. The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics

32. The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth

33. Digital Transformation Playbook: Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age

34. Limited Liability Companies For Dummies

35. Rich Dad’s Before You Quit Your Job: 10 Real-Life Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Building a Million-Dollar Business

36. The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos

37. Make Your Idea Matter: Stand out with a better story

38. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

39. The Four Steps to the Epiphany

40. The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know

41. Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

42. Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals

43. Start Your Own Business: The Only Startup Book You’ll Ever Need

44. Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!: Make Your Million-Dollar Idea Into a Reality

45. Straight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds–From Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity

46. The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

47. The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up

48. Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Beer from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

49. Difference: The one-page method for reimagining your business and reinventing your marketing

50. One Simple Idea, Revised and Expanded Edition: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work

51. Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies (Planning Shop)

52. She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur

53. The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

54. Work Less, Make More: The counter-intuitive approach to building a profitable business, and a life you actually love

55. Founder’s Pocket Guide: Cap Tables

56. The Freelancer’s Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Have the Career of Your Dreams―On Your Terms

57. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

58. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

59. The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8am)

60. Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too

61. Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

62. Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World

63. Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

64. Think and Grow Rich

65. Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine

66. The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture

67. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

68. Man Up: How to Cut the Bullshit and Kick Ass in Business (and in Life)

69. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It

70. Leveraged Learning: How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners, and Experts with Something to Teach

71. Trump: The Art of the Deal

72. Millionaire Success Habits: The Gateway to Wealth & Prosperity

73. Introducing Entrepreneurship

74. Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical & Financial Destiny!

75. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth