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Q: Hey, what books or podcasts do you recommend entrepreneurs should read?
A: This page.
Stop what you're doing and get/read/listen/watch these (if you haven't already)
Read/Listen(Audiobook)
You Can't Win a Race With Your Mouth: And 299 Other Expert Tips from a Lifelong Entrepreneur by Howard A. Tullman
Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition by Kerry Patterson
It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage by Arlan Hamilton
Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage by Laura Huang
Books
Up next on my reading list
Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on Your Terms by Jeffrey Bussgang
The ones that are not brought up enough (but should)
Get Your Venture Backed with Persuasive Data Viz: An HBR Collection for Building the Perfect Pitch Deck by Scott Berinato
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
Gather As You Go by Carol Lavin Bernick
Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Startups by Amos Schwartzfarb
Yes, You Can Do This! How Women Start Up, Scale Up, and Build The Life They Want (Techstars) by Claudia Reuter
Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior, Second Edition by Kerry Patterson
Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Second Edition by Kerry Patterson
The usual suspects
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It by Scott Kupor
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (30th Anniversary Edition) by Stephen R. Covey
Mastery by Robert Greene
The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
Podcasts
How I Built This with Guy Raz
The Pitch with Josh Muccio
This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
The Twenty Minute VC with Harry Stebbings
Talking Through It with Neal Sáles-Griffin (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, more.)
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