Why Startups Fail

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1. jll29Mar 2023
   1. "Lean Startup" (pretty standard)

   2. "Spin Selling" (sales)

   3. "The Four-Hour Work Week" (not because of the way of life promised in the misleading title, but because of the links to useful Websites, and for motivational reading)

   4. "The One Billion Dollar App" (silly title but fantastic book from an actual taxi app product manager - I almost didn't buy it because of the title, thank God I opened it anyway and started reading about viral marketing which like the tracking of pandemic is based on the r coefficient).

   5. "Business Model Generation" (the mechanics of making money)

   6. "The Startup Owner's Manual"

   7. "Why Startups Fail" (anti-patterns - better read about them before you get trapped by them)

   8. "The Company Secretary Handbook" (UK only)

   9. "Die Unternehmergesellschaft (UG): Gründung, Geschäftsführung, Recht und Steuern für kleinere Unternehmen und Start-Ups" (Germany only)

   10. "Founders At Work" (motivational)

   11. "Financial Times Essential Guides Writing a Business Plan: How to win backing to start up or grow your business" (to get clarity, write a plan - for yourself, to align all co-founders and the team, to get VC funding, to convince yourself that the business is financially viable)

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2. j_sAug 2016
   Honestly, nothing super-compelling (total of 5 with 10+ Amazon reviews?) unless you like to read a lot of business books.

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   5 stars/46 reviews $20 Exporting: The Definitive Guide to Selling Abroad Profitably (Delaney, 2013) https://amzn.com/dp/B00FNC77RY

   5 stars/05 reviews $20 Commercializing Innovation: Turning Technology Breakthroughs into Products (Schaufeld, 2015) https://amzn.com/dp/B00IV79JH4

   5 stars/05 reviews $18 Inventors at Work: The Minds and Motivation Behind Modern Inventions (Stern, 2012) https://amzn.com/dp/B009SRRVG2

   5 stars/04 reviews $17 Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses: Putting the Power of Design to Work (Ingle, 2013) https://amzn.com/dp/B00EBCGI36

   5 stars/05 reviews $15 Know and Grow the Value of Your Business: An Owner's Guide to Retiring (McDaniel, 2013) https://amzn.com/dp/B00CYU98VQ

   5 stars/10 reviews $18 Startup: An Insider's Guide to Launching and Running a Business (Ready, 2011) https://amzn.com/dp/1430242183 (paperback)

   $8+ ("average")

   5.0 stars/05 reviews $35 Databases for Small Business: Essentials of Database Management, Data Analysis, and Staff Training for Entrepreneurs https://amzn.com/dp/B0157W4JTS

   5.0 stars/21 reviews $23 How to Create the Next Facebook: Seeing Your Startup Through, from Idea to IPO (Taulli, 2012) https://amzn.com/dp/1430246472

   4.5 stars/02 reviews $28 Big Data Bootcamp (Feinleib, 2014) https://amzn.com/dp/B00MBL230G

   no reviews $32 Make an E-commerce Site in a Weekend: Using PHP (Harwani, 2015) https://amzn.com/dp/B01IK5GA0A

   3.0 stars/02 reviews $35 Pro Freeware and Open Source Solutions for Business (Whitt, 2015) https://amzn.com/dp/B011KFOT5K

   5.0 stars/01 reviews $17 From Techie to Boss (Cromar, 2013) https://amzn.com/dp/B00CYU98V6

   no reviews $20 Build a Profitable Online Business: The No-Nonsense Guide (Olsson, 2013) https://amzn.com/dp/1430263792 (paperback)

   $15

   5.0 stars/11 reviews $17 Building Great Software Engineering Teams: Recruiting, Hiring, and Managing Your Team from Startup to Success (Tyler, 2015) https://amzn.com/dp/B00ZHM53DK

   5.0 stars/03 reviews $20 Disruption by Design: How to Create Products that Disrupt and then Dominate Markets (Paetz, 2014) https://amzn.com/dp/B00ACC6AIW

   5.0 stars/13 reviews $24 Regulation A+: How the JOBS Act Creates Opportunities for Entrepreneurs and Investors (Getty et al, 2015) https://amzn.com/dp/B00DREFQOG

   5.0 stars/02 reviews $35 University Startups and Spin-Offs: Guide for Entrepreneurs in Academia (Stagars, 2014) https://amzn.com/dp/B00NTQ0WZA

   5.0 stars/02 reviews $32 Financial Modeling for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs (Sawyer, 2014) https://amzn.com/dp/B00MUUI618

   4.5 stars/06 reviews $14 Why Startups Fail: And How Yours Can Succeed (Feinleib, 2011) https://amzn.com/dp/B006RM2KOY

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