100 Best Corporate Finance Books of All Time (Updated for 2026)

1

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

Eric Ries

5.0

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned profes

Recommended by Sheryl Sandberg, Andrew Chen, Ben Horowitz, and 75 others.

Sheryl Sandberg

COO/Facebook

Provides a great inside look at how the tech industry approaches building products and businesses. [source]

Ben Horowitz

Co-founder/Andreessen Horowitz

Great. [source]

Dustin Moskovitz

Co-founder/Facebook and Asana

At Asana, we've been lucky to benefit from the author's advice firsthand; this book will enable him to help many more entrepreneurs answer the tough questions about their business. [source]

2

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE

Phil Knight

5.0

Preview Summary

In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.

In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-q

Recommended by Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Andre Agassi, and 39 others.

Bill Gates

CEO/Microsoft

This memoir, by the co-founder of Nike, is a refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like: messy, precarious, and riddled with mistakes. I’ve met Knight a few times over the years. He’s super nice, but he’s also quiet and difficult to get to know. Here Knight opens up in a way few CEOs are willing to do. I don’t think Knight sets out to teach the reader anything. Instead, he accomplishes something better. He tells his story as honestly as he can. It’s an amazing tale. [source]

Warren Buffett

CEO/Berkshire Hathaway

The best book I read last year. Phil is... a gifted storyteller. [source]

Andre Agassi

Founder/ College Preparatory Academy

I've known Phil Knight since I was a kid, but I didn't really know him until I opened this beautiful, startling, intimate book. And the same goes for Nike. I've worn the gear with pride, but I didn't realize the remarkable saga of innovation and survival and triumph that stood behind every swoosh. Candid, funny, suspenseful, literary - this is a memoir for people who love sport, but above all it's a memoir for people who love memoirs. [source]

3

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4.9

Preview Summary

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was.

The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from t

Recommended by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and 18 others.

Bill Gates

CEO/Microsoft

On Bill Gates's reading list in 2012. [source]

Jeff Bezos

Founder/Amazon

From the book "The Everything Store: and the Age of Amazon" “The scholar argues that people are wired to see patterns in chaos while remaining blind to unpredictable events, with massive consequences. Experimentation and empiricism trumps the easy and obvious narrative,” Stone writes. [source]

James Altucher

Founder/StockPickr

And throw in “The Black Swan” and “Fooled by Randomness”. “Fragile” means if you hit something might break. “Resilient” means if you hit something, it will stay the same. On my podcast Nassim discusses “Antifragility” – building a system, even on that works for you on a personal level, where you if you harm your self in some way it becomes stronger. That podcast changed my life He discusses Antifragility throughout history, up to our current economic situation, and even in our personal situations. [source]

4

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

Peter Thiel

4.9

Preview Summary

If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation,

Recommended by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Reid Hoffman, and 77 others.

Elon Musk

Founder/SpaceX

Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.” - Elon Mus [source]

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder/Facebook

This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world. [source]

Ben Horowitz

Co-founder/Andreessen Horowitz

Zero To One is a great book. I learned a lot reading it. [source]

5

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou

4.9

Preview Summary

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers.

In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" pr

Recommended by Bill Gates, Andrew Chen, Brad Feld, and 12 others.

Bill Gates

CEO/Microsoft

A bunch of my friends recommended this one to me. Carreyrou gives you the definitive insider’s look at the rise and fall of Theranos. The story is even crazier than I expected, and I found myself unable to put it down once I started. This book has everything: elaborate scams, corporate intrigue, magazine cover stories, ruined family relationships, and the demise of a company once valued at nearly $10 billion. [source]

Andrew Chen

General Partner/Andreessen Horowitz

Finished “bad blood” on the Theranos scandal. Wow. Just wow. It’s a must read for everyone in tech and startups. Just 1-click buy it :) Amazing how far charisma and social proof got them. Here’s the NYT review of the book https://t.co/PyMGxfoG2R [source]

Brad Feld

Co-Founder/Foundry Group

Every entrepreneur and VC should read this book. John Carreyrou has done something important here. Maybe this book will finally put a nail in the phrase “fake it till you make it”, but I doubt it. The amount of lying, disingenuousness, blatant and unjustified self-promotion, and downright deceit that exists in entrepreneurship right now is at a local maximum. This always happens when entrepreneurship gets trendy. Carreyrou just wrote a long warning for entrepreneurs and VCs. [source]

6

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving in

Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton

4.8

Preview Summary

The key text on problem-solving negotiation-updated and revised

Getting to Yes has helped millions of people learn a better way to negotiate. One of the primary business texts of the modern era, it is based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution.

Getting to Yes offers a proven, step-by-step strategy for coming to mut

Recommended by Charles T. Munger, Drew Houston, Dustin Moskovitz, and 8 others.

Charles T. Munger

Vice Chairman/Berkshire Hathaway

recommends this title in the book "Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger". [source]

Drew Houston

CEO/Dropbox

About principled negotiation, and I still think about and apply a lot of those concepts today. [source]

Dustin Moskovitz

Co-founder/Facebook and Asana

Dustin Moskovitz recommended this book on Twitter. [source]

7

Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space And Make The Competition Irrelevant

W. Chan Kim

4.7

Preview Summary

Winning by not competing! This international best seller upends traditional thinking with principles and tools to make the competition irrelevant.
In an audiobook that challenges everything you thought you knew, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed, not by battling their rivals for market share in the bloody "red ocean" of a shrinking profit pool, bu

Recommended by Daymond John, Steve Blank, Danielle Morrill, and 13 others.

Daymond John

Founder/FUBU

There are the normal ones that everybody loves. There would be "Rich Dad Poor Dad," "Who Moved My Cheese?;" I love all the Dale Carnegie books; "The One Minute Manager." I love newer ones like "Blue Ocean Strategy" and all the "Freaknomics" books. [source]

Ryan Holiday

Author

I don’t remember who originally told me to read Blue Ocean Strategy but I’m glad they did because this simple recommendation would substantially shape the course of my life and my career. [source]

Ayush Kumar

One doesn't necessarily need to take from others to fill their glass & you can always build a successful business in any industry. [source]

8

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

John Doerr

4.6

Preview Summary

Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth--and how it can help any organization thrive.

In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin h

Recommended by Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Walter Isaacson, and 6 others.

Bill Gates

CEO/Microsoft

John explains how OKRs Objectives and Key Results work and shows how you can apply them in all sorts of situations. I’d recommend John’s book for anyone interested in becoming a better manager (and I’d say that even if I hadn’t been interviewed for a super-nice chapter about the Gates Foundation). [source]

Reid Hoffman

CEO/LinkedIn

Whether you're a seasoned CEO or a first-time entrepreneur, you'll find valuable lessons, tools, and inspiration in the pages of Measure What Matters. I'm glad John invested the time to share these ideas with the world. [source]

Walter Isaacson

Author

In this indispensable book, the most important venture capitalist of our era reveals a key to business innovation and success. This crisp and colorful book combines fascinating case studies with insightful personal stories to show how OKRs can add magic to organizations of any size. [source]

9

The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing

Benjamin Graham

4.6

Preview Summary

The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies -- has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949.

Recommended by Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon, Kevin Rose, and 6 others.

Warren Buffett

CEO/Berkshire Hathaway

To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. This book precisely and clearly prescribes the proper framework. You must provide the emotional discipline. [source]

Kevin Rose

Co-founder/Digg

The foundation for investing. A lot of people have used this as their guide to getting into investment, basic strategies. Actually Warren Buffett cites this as the book that got him into investing and he says that principles he learned here helped him to become a great investor. Highly recommend this book. It’s a great way understand what’s going on and how to evaluate different companies out there before you make an investment. [source]

DJ Vlad

The single biggest influence on how I buy and sell stocks. [source]

10

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

Alice Schroeder

4.6

Preview Summary

Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing

Recommended by Marvin Liao, Chude Jideonwo, DJ Vlad, and 5 others.

Marvin Liao

Partner/500 Startups

My list would be (besides the ones I mentioned in answer to the previous question) both business & Fiction/Sci-Fi and ones I personally found helpful to myself. The business books explain just exactly how business, work & investing are in reality & how to think properly & differentiate yourself. On the non-business side, a mix of History & classic fiction to understand people, philosophy to make sense of life and Science fiction to picture what the future could be like (not always utopian). [source]

Chude Jideonwo

It's been so long, and I've been so busy that I haven't been able to recommend a book. I am sorry! I have read so many fantastic ones though, no matter how busy I have been. And I am soooooo excited to recommend this one. I love Warren Buffett ... https://t.co/ML0pM3G29k https://t.co/6yhfhT8WF5 [source]

DJ Vlad

If I had to pick one book that changed the way I look at investing, this would be it. [source]

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

Mike Michalowicz

4.3

Preview Summary

Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability.

Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logica

Recommended by Bill Widmer and Jacqui Pretty.

Bill Widmer

I also recommend Profit First by Mike Michalowicz to learn how to put profit first in your business. [source]

Jacqui Pretty

The most recent business book I found that had a transformative impact on my business is Profit First by Mike Michalowicz, which completely changed the way we manage our finances at Grammar Factory. [source]

12

Applied Corporate Finance

Aswath Damodaran

4.3

Applied Corporate Finance provides a user's perspective to corporate finance, by posing the three major questions that every business has to answer, and then providing the tools and the analytical techniques needed to answer them. The three questions are: 1. Where do we invest our resources? (The Investment Decision) 2. How should we fund these investments? (The Financing Decision) 3. How much cas

13

Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You

John Warrillow

4.3

Preview Summary

According to John Warrillow, the number one mistake entrepreneurs make is to build a business that relies too heavily on them. Thus, when the time comes to sell, buyers aren't confident that the company-even if it's profitable-can stand on its own. To illustrate this, Warrillow introduces us to a fictional small business owner named Alex who is struggling to sell his advertising agency. Alex turns

Recommended by Turgay Birand.

Turgay Birand

"Built to Sell" is great for entrepreneurs to start thinking about how to have a business that can run without them from the get go, which should be the aim! [source]

14

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

John Brooks

4.3

Preview Summary

"Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever read." --Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal

What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or no

Recommended by Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Michael Dell, and 5 others.

Bill Gates

CEO/Microsoft

Brooks’s work is a great reminder that the rules for running a strong business and creating value haven’t changed. For one thing, there’s an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn’t matter if you have a perfect product, production plan, and marketing pitch; you’ll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans. [source]

Warren Buffett

CEO/Berkshire Hathaway

In 1991, Bill Gates asked Buffett for his favorite book. In reply, Buffett sent the Microsoft founder his personal copy of Business Adventures, a collection of New Yorker stories by John Brooks. [source]

Michael Dell

CEO/Dell Computers

In this 1960s classic, Brooks, a longtime New Yorker contributor, tells the stories of 12 notable companies and how they navigated the trials and tribulations of corporate life in America back in the day. [source]

15

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Fifth Edition

Lawrence A. Cunningham and Warren E. Buffett

4.3

Preview Summary

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What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence

Stephen A. Schwarzman

4.3

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Blackstone chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman's life to show readers how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations. Whether you are a student, entrepreneur, philanthropist, executive, or simply someone looking for ways to maximize your potential, the same lessons apply.

People

Recommended by Eric Schmidt and Norman Ornstein.

Eric Schmidt

CEO/Google

Reveals how the author has achieved the rarest kind of leverage in multiple fields. [source]

Norman Ornstein

What it Takes remains the best book written about American politics and politicians. i reread every few years. Want to know about Biden? Read it! https://t.co/ZlLwbRqADa [source]

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Corporate Finance: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Reporting, Business Valuation, Risk Management, Financial Management, and Financial Statements

Greg Shields

4.3

18

Warren Buffett Accounting Book: Reading Financial Statements for Value Investing

Stig Brodersen and Preston Pysh

4.3

This book is the second volume to the Amazon Bestseller Warren Buffett's Three Favorite Books. In this book, you will learn how to: Pick stocks like Warren Buffett Calculate the intrinsic value of stocks using two methods During the second half of the book, readers will learn in-depth methods for: Read an income statement Read a balance sheet Read a cash flow statement Calculate and interpret key

Recommended by Chris Mobbs.

Chris Mobbs

Warren Buffett Accounting Book: Reading Financial Statements for Value Investing (Warren Buffett’s 3 Favorite Books Book 2) https://t.co/uwVh05lLJH https://t.co/sR5CEeOEDf [source]

19

Financial Institutions, Investments, & Management: An Introduction

Herbert B. Mayo

4.3

A general introduction to the three primary aspects of Finance and examination of how they interrelate. The book discusses financial institutions and their roles in helping to allocate savings in the economy, along with a description and analysis of securities issued and traded in money and capital markets. The book covers fundamentals of investing in stocks, mutual funds, derivatives, and other m

20

Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It

Scott Kupor

4.3

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller!

What are venture capitalists saying about your startup behind closed doors? And what can you do to influence that conversation?

If Silicon Valley is the greatest wealth-generating machine in the world, Sand Hill Road is its humming engine. That's where you'll find the biggest names in venture capital, including famed VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, where lawyer-turned

Recommended by Eric Schmidt, Sam Altman, Elad Gil, and 10 others.

Eric Schmidt

CEO/Google

As someone who’s helped a small company become a huge, valuable company, I know firsthand the power of the startup ecosystem and entrepreneurship. This book is the definitive book on navigating VC as part of that. [source]

Sam Altman

Partner & President/Y Combinator

I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to create something important and to achieve outlier success. Kupor’s book takes founders who want to do both through everything from how VCs raise money and evaluate deals, to how to think about term sheets and set up boards. It’s a valuable resource for any founder who wants to work with VCs. [source]

Elad Gil

@MahapatraChirag Hope you enjoy it! @skupor's book is great. [source]

21

Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports

Howard Schilit and Jeremy Perler

4.3

The bestselling classic from the "Sherlock Holmes of Accounting"--updated to reflect the key case studies and most important lessons from the past quarter century.
This fourth edition of the classic guide shines a light on the most shocking frauds and financial reporting offenders of the last twenty-five years, and gives investors the tools they need to detect:
-Corporate cultures that incentiv

Recommended by Anu Hariharan and Sam E. Antar.

Sam E. Antar

@HowardSchilit And I love your book! [source]

22

The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward

Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson

4.3

From the world-famous inventor of fractal geometry, a revolutionary new theory that turns on its head our understanding of how markets work. Fractal geometry is the mathematics of roughness: how to reduce the outline of a jagged leaf, a rocky coastline or static in a computer connection to a few simple mathematical properties - to make the complex simple. With his fractal tools, Benoit Mandelbrot

Recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and James Owen Weatherall.

James Owen Weatherall

What Mandelbrot realised early on, at the start of the 1960s, was that the kind of assumptions about statistics that everyone was making were wrong. [source]

23

The Theory of Corporate Finance

Jean Tirole

4.3

The past twenty years have seen great theoretical and empirical advances in the field of corporate finance. Whereas once the subject addressed mainly the financing of corporations--equity, debt, and valuation--today it also embraces crucial issues of governance, liquidity, risk management, relationships between banks and corporations, and the macroeconomic impact of corporations. However, this pro

24

Financial Statements, Third Edition: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports (Over 200,000 copies sold!)

Thomas Ittelson

4.2

Over 200,000 copies sold!

Thomas R. Ittelson’s master work for entrepreneurs, non-financial managers, business students, lawyers, lenders, and investors—the bestselling book of its kind, with over 200,000 copies in print—has gotten even better with this 20th anniversary edition.

Ittelson is an expert at translating complicated financial topics in an accessible way for non-financial audiences. In thi

25

Capital budgeting. Sistema aziendale e decisioni d'investimento. Con CD-ROM

Mirella Muffarotto

4.2

Il futuro di un'impresa dipende dalle decisioni assunte nel presente. Lo studio preventivo della migliore allocazione di una risorsa scarsa, qual è il capitale, tra diverse possibili alternative d'impiego, assume, perciò, carattere prevalente per gli imprenditori come per le banche finanziatrici. In un'ottica in cui la banca affianca l'azienda, l'analisi di budget, piani d'impresa, relazioni progr

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Corporate Finance: Theory & Practice Test Bank

Aswath Damodaran

4.2

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Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

McKinsey & Company Inc., Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, David Wessels

4.2

Hailed by financial professionals worldwide as the single best guide of its kind, Valuation, Fourth Edition is thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect business conditions in today's volatile global economy. Valuation provides up-to-date insights and practical advice on how to create, manage, and measure an organization's value. Along with all-new case studies that illustrate how valuation techn

28

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

Chris Guillebeau

4.2

Preview Summary

In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose – and earn a good living.

Still in his early thirties, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth – he’s already visited more than 175 nations – and yet he’s never held a “real job” or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into incom

Recommended by Eric Schmidt, Tony Hsieh, Seth Godin, and 5 others.

Tony Hsieh

CEO/Zappos.com

In this valuable guide Chris Guillebeau shows that transforming an idea into a successful business can be easier than you think…You are in charge of which ideas deserve your time, and this book can help you wake up every morning eager to progress to the next step. [source]

Chelsea Frank

I read everything with an open mind, often challenging myself by choosing books with an odd perspective or religious/spiritual views. These books do not reflect my personal feelings but are books that helped shape my perspective on life, love, and happiness. [source]

Dean Roller

Question: What books would you recommend to young people interested in your career path? Answer: Four Hour Work Week, The $100 startup and Jobs to be done . I like books that share examples of real world approaches to getting something off the ground. [source]

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The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

Josh Kaufman

4.2

Preview Summary

Master the fundamentals, hone your business instincts, and save a fortune in tuition.

The consensus is clear: MBA programs are a waste of time and money. Even the elite schools offer outdated assembly-line educations about profit-and-loss statements and PowerPoint presentations. After two years poring over sanitized case studies, students are shuffled off into middle management to find out how bus

Recommended by Brian Burkhart, Ola Olusoga, and 1 others.

Brian Burkhart

It’s jam-packed with little digestible bites of wisdom—from finance to marketing to organizational development. It’s the guru bible of business. [source]

Ola Olusoga

For business, I've read Influence by Robert Cialdini 3 times, and Traction by Gabriel Weinberg twice, so if number of times read indicates favor, then those are it. There are a whole bunch of others, like The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman, Confession of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy, The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss, and Running Lean by Ash Maurya, that I've also enjoyed and recommend to people. [source]

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Equity Crowdfunding: The Complete Guide for Startups and Growing Companies

Nathan Rose

4.2

Raise Money & Gain Exposure At The Same Time!Tired of fruitless pitch meetings with investors and the limitations of trying to grow a business through bootstrapping?
Equity crowdfunding is a new, fresh alternative to Silicon Valley venture capital. Hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars, can be raised by offering shares in your startup to members of the public.
Gaining marketing exposure

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The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms

Danielle LaPorte

4.2

The Fire Starter Sessions is an apathy-kicking, integrity-infusing guide to defining success on your own terms.

As the creator of DanielleLaPorte.com--deemed “the best place online for kick-ass spirituality,” Danielle LaPorte’s straight-talk life-and-livelihood sermons have been read by over one million people. Bold but empathetic, she reframes popular self-help and success concepts:

: Life balan

32

Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism

Jeff Gramm

4.2

A sharp and illuminating history of one of capitalism’s longest running tensions—the conflicts of interest among public company directors, managers, and shareholders—told through entertaining case studies and original letters from some of our most legendary and controversial investors and activists.

Recent disputes between shareholders and major corporations, including Apple and DuPont, have made h

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The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

Mihir Desai

4.2

"A fascinating new perspective on modern finance," --Oliver Hart, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Economics

"Lucid, witty and delightfully erudite...From the French revolution to film noir, from the history of probability to Jane Austen and The Simpsons, this is an astonishing intellectual feast." --Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

In 1688, essayist Josef d

Recommended by Diane Coyle.

Diane Coyle

This is a slightly quirky book, which I really enjoyed reading. It’s about getting over some messages about financial markets using stories. [source]

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That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

Marc Randolph

4.2

In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph.
Once upon a time, brick-and-mortar video stores were king. Late fees were ubiquitous, video-streaming unheard was of, and widespread DVD adoption seemed about as imminent as flying cars. Indeed, these were the widely accepte

Recommended by Dharmesh Shah and The CEO Library Community (through anonymous form).

Dharmesh Shah

Really enjoying the book "That Will Never Work" from one of the founders of Netflix. Really insightful and interesting read on the life of an idea. By @mbrandolph Recommended: https://t.co/KB4xoquzBd https://t.co/mPBIMARFNo [source]

The CEO Library Community (through anonymous form)

One of the best 3 books I've read in 2019 [source]

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Understanding Stocks

Michael Sincere

4.2

Revised and updated--the new edition of the stock investing classic is packed with powerful new strategies for today's market realities

"Understanding Stocks, Second Edition" gives you the information you need to do everything from opening an account to making informed decisions when evaluating stocks and making trades. New chapters cover short selling, alternative investments such as commodities a

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Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000

Jason Calacanis

4.2

One of Silicon Valley’s most successful angel investors shares his rules for investing in startups.

There are two ways to make money in startups: create something valuable—or invest in the people that are creating valuable things.

Over the past twenty-five years, Jason Calacanis has made a fortune investing in creators, spotting and helping build and fund a number of successful technology startups—i

Recommended by Brad Feld, Jonah Lupton, and Matthew Stafford.

Brad Feld

Co-Founder/Foundry Group

Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups – Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000: I met Jason Calacanis in the mid-1990s when he was peddling his Silicon Alley Reporter magazine. We’ve been friends ever since and I give him a big hug whenever our paths cross. He’s his normal outspoken and bombastic self in this book, which has lots of gems buried in it. I smiled a lot when I read it. And how about that subtitle … [source]

Jonah Lupton

@Jason The Angel book and podcast are two of my all time favorites. I’ve listened to the book twice on audible. Tons of great advice for every aspiring angel investor. https://t.co/Gp2zQMIkNs [source]

Matthew Stafford

Great book. https://t.co/8fMVjYzIz9 [source]

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Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People

G. Richard Shell

4.2

As director of the renowned Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop, Professor G. Richard Shell has taught thousands of business leaders, administrators, and other professionals how to survive and thrive in the sometimes rough-and-tumble world of negotiation. His systematic, step-by-step approach comes to life in this book, which is available in over ten foreign editions and combines lively storyte

38

The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History

David Enrich

4.2

The Wall Street Journal's award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatest financial scandals in history. The paperback edition includes a new chapter discussing further fallout from the scandal.

In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, trade

Recommended by Marc Andreessen.

Marc Andreessen

Co-Founder/Andreessen Horowitz

"Billions"-esque saga of global financial market manipulation, at mind-boggling scale and hiding in plain sight, by a small cabal of bankers in London. [source]

39

Damodaran on Valuation: Security Analysis for Investment and Corporate Finance

Aswath Damodaran

4.2

"Aswath Damodaran is simply the best valuation teacher around. If you are interested in the theory or practice of valuation, you should have Damodaran on Valuation on your bookshelf. You can bet that I do."
-- Michael J. Mauboussin, Chief Investment Strategist, Legg Mason Capital Management and author of More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places In order to be a success

40

Applied Corporate Finance

WILEY INDIA

4.2

41

The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

Mariana Mazzucato

4.2

Modern economies reward activities that extract value rather than create it. This must change to insure a capitalism that works for us all.

In this scathing indictment of our current global financial system, The Value of Everything rigorously scrutinizes the way in which economic value has been determined and reveals how the difference between value creation and value extraction has become increasi

Recommended by Pia Mancini.

Pia Mancini

@soulafloat @MazzucatoM @ValeriaLuiselli @MazzucatoM's one is great book! Super insightful. I'll add @ValeriaLuiselli to my list! Thank you [source]

42

Corporate Finance, Study Guide and Problems Manual: Theory and Practice

Aswath Damodaran

4.2

A text with a thoroughly integrated applications orientation revolving around the philosophy that companies need to know how to finance organizations in order to reach optimal capital structure. Recognizing that every investment decision involves choosing the right amount of debt and equity, the text suggests readers look at data and ask, "What is relevant? Why is this detail important? How does i

43

Business Brilliant: Surprising Lessons from the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons

Lewis Schiff

4.2

Ask a member of the middle class what it takes to become wealthy, and she'll tell you it takes a bold new idea. Tell that to a self-made millionaire, and he'll vehemently disagree. What explains the difference in mind-set between the self-made wealthy and the rest of us? It's not what you think, as journalist and entrepreneur Lewis Schiff convincingly illustrates through groundbreaking research an

44

Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets

John J. Murphy

4.2

John J. Murphy has updated his landmark bestseller Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets, to include all of the financial markets.This outstanding reference has already taught thousands of traders the concepts of technical analysis and their application in the futures and stock markets. Covering the latest developments in computer technology, technical tools, and indicators, the second edition

Recommended by Luke Beller.

Luke Beller

If you want to learn about technical analysis this is a great book. https://t.co/PxE5SOXtlY [source]

45

It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage

Arlan Hamilton

4.2

“A hero's tale of what’s possible when we unlock our potential, continue the search for knowledge, and draw on our lived experiences to guide us through the darkest moments.”
—Stacey Abrams

From a black, gay woman who broke into the boys' club of Silicon Valley comes an empowering guide to finding your voice, working your way into any room you want to be in, and achieving your own dreams.

In 2015, Ar

46

How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart about the Numbers

Mihir Desai

4.2

47

Incerto: Fooled by Randomness the Black Swan the Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4.2

Nassim Nicholas Taleb s landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don t understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. All four volumes "Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, "and the expanded edition of" The Bed of Procrustes, "updated with more than 50 percent new materi

48

Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

Aswath Damodaran

4.2

How can a company that has never turned a profit have a multibillion dollar valuation? Why do some start-ups attract large investments while others do not? Aswath Damodaran, finance professor and experienced investor, argues that the power of story drives corporate value, adding substance to numbers and persuading even cautious investors to take risks. In business, there are the storytellers who s

49

The Little Book of Behavioral Investing: How Not to Be Your Own Worst Enemy

James Montier

4.1

A detailed guide to overcoming the most frequently encountered psychological pitfalls of investing Bias, emotion, and overconfidence are just three of the many behavioral traits that can lead investors to lose money or achieve lower returns. Behavioral finance, which recognizes that there is a psychological element to all investor decision-making, can help you overcome this obstacle.

In The Little

50

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

Ash Maurya

4.1

We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We’re building more products than ever before, but most of them fail—not because we can’t complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product.

What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That’s the promise of Running Lean.

In

Recommended by Ash Maurya, Garrett Moon, and Ola Olusoga.

Garrett Moon

Running Lean by Ash Maurya: Learn to build products the lean way! [source]

Ola Olusoga

For business, I've read Influence by Robert Cialdini 3 times, and Traction by Gabriel Weinberg twice, so if number of times read indicates favor, then those are it. There are a whole bunch of others, like The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman, Confession of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy, The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss, and Running Lean by Ash Maurya, that I've also enjoyed and recommend to people. [source]

51

Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game

Walker Deibel

4.1

Entrepreneurs have a problem: startups. Almost all startups either fail or never truly reach a sustainable size. Despite the popularity of entrepreneurship, we haven't engineered a better way to start. ...Until now.What if you could skip the startup phase and generate profitable revenue on day one?In Buy Then Build, acquisition entrepreneur Walker Deibel shows you how to begin with a sustainable,

52

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

David Moles, Peter; Parrino, Robert; Kidwell

4.1

'Fundamentals of Corporate Finance' helps students develop the intuition and analytical skills necessary to apply financial tools in real-world decision-making situations. The authors provide a fully integrated framework for understanding how value creation relates to all aspects of corporate finance.

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53

Corporate Finance for Dummies

Michael Taillard

4.1

Score your highest in corporate finance The math, formulas, and problems associated with corporate finance can be daunting to the uninitiated. Corporate Finance For Dummies introduces you to the practices of determining an operating budget, calculating future cash flow, and scenario analysis in a friendly, un-intimidating way that makes comprehension easy.

Corporate Finance For Dummies covers every

54

Corporate Finance

Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo

4.1

Using the unifying valuation framework based on the Law of One Price, this work covers time-tested principles and the advancements with the practical perspective of the financial manager.

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55

The Business Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

DK

4.1

Packed with innovative graphics and simple explanations of business concepts, from managing risk and alternative business models to effective leadership and thinking outside the box, The Business Book covers every facet of business management. Big ideas make great business thinkers and leaders. From Adam Smith and Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, The Business Book is perfect for c

56

The Ten-Day MBA 4th Ed.: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools

Steven Silbiger

4.1

Steven Silbiger's international bestseller, "The Ten-Day MBA," has already helped thousands master the skills taught at America's top-ten business schools--and at a fraction of the time and staggering cost that acquiring an MBA typically demands. This newly revised fourth edition contains the most up-to-date information available for understanding the intricacies of today's complex global business

57

The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Non-Financial Managers

Robert Cooke

4.1

Gives you the working knowledge you need to understand what the numbers are really saying, without unnecessary backroom accounting terms. This book provides information on: the essential concepts of finance, so that you can ask intelligent questions and understand the answers; vital statements and reports; and, auditing - what is measured and how.

58

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

Mike Isaac

4.1

In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley.

Award-winning New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set agai

Recommended by John Carreyrou, Aaron W. Gordon, Cz Binance, and 4 others.

John Carreyrou

Author, Journalist

The tale of Uber, the queen of the so-called ‘unicorns,’ is a parable about power―and the lengths to which some startup founders will go to amass it and hold onto it. Aside from being a delicious read, Mike Isaac’s account is also teeming with new revelations that will shock and outrage you. [source]

Aaron W. Gordon

Read @MikeIsaac's book on Uber in one sitting, so props to him on that. It is truly a stunning work on just how much wealth can be generated and squandered by a gang of—to use his favorite word— douchebags solely based on the failures of American public transportation policy. [source]

Cz Binance

@gautamchhugani Great book, recommended to all of our team. [source]

59

Advanced Techniques in Day Trading: A Practical Guide to High Probability Strategies and Methods

Andrew Aziz

4.1

This well-thought-out training regimen begins with an in-depth look at the necessary tools of the trade including your scanner, software and platform; and then moves to practical advice on subjects such as how to find the right stocks to trade, how to define support and resistance levels, and how to best manage your trades in the stress of the moment. An extensive review of proven trading strategi

60

The Art of Profitability

Adrian Slywotzky

4.1

An extraordinarily new business slant on how companies can generate greater profits. Presented in 23 compact lessons, "The Art of Profitability" features an ongoing tutorial between two fictitious individuals.

61

The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field

Mike Michalowicz

4.1

Preview Summary

Each year Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay alive—let alone grow—it’s easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of “sell it—do it, sell it—do it” that leaves them exhausted, frustrated, and unable to get ahead no matter how hard they try.

This is the exact situation Mike Michalow

Recommended by Seth Godin and Jacqui Pretty.

Jacqui Pretty

Here are some that might help: (...) - The Pumpkin Plan for differentiation [source]

62

The Art of Startup Fundraising

Alejandro Cremades, Barbara Corcoran

4.1

The Art of Startup Fundraising takes a fresh look at raising money for startups, with a focus on the changing face of startup finance. New regulations are making the old go-to advice less relevant, as startup money is increasingly moving online. These new waters are all but uncharted—and founders need an accessible guide. This book helps you navigate the online world of startup fundraising with ea

63

Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean

Karen Berman and Joe Knight

4.1

Inc. magazine calls it one of “the best, clearest guides to the numbers” on the market. Readers agree, saying it’s exactly “what I need to know” and calling it a “must-read” for decision makers without expertise in finance.

Since its release in 2006, Financial Intelligence has become a favorite among managers who need a guided tour through the numbers—helping them to understand not only what the nu

64

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

Brad Feld

4.1

Help take your startup to the next step with the new and revised edition of the popular book on the VC deal process--from the co-founders of the Foundry Group

How do venture capital deals come together? This is one of the most frequent questions asked by each generation of new entrepreneurs. Surprisingly, there is little reliable information on the subject. No one understands this better than Brad

65

Options as a Strategic Investment

Lawrence G. McMillan

4.1

The market in listed options and non-equity option products provides investors and traders with a wealth of new, strategic opportunities for managing their investments. This updated and revised Fifth Edition of the bestselling Options as a Strategic Investment gives you the latest market-tested tools for improving the earnings potential of your portfolio while reducing downside risk—no matter how

66

How To Swing Trade

Brian Pezim

4.1

67

The Dark Side of Valuation

Aswath Damodaran

4.1

Financial professionals have long faced the challenge of accurately valuing companies that are difficult to value using conventional methodologies. Years ago, this challenge was most keenly felt in the "dot-com" industries, and many professionals fell victim to the "dark side," creating values that were simply unsustainable. Now, amidst today's global financial crisis, the same challenge applies t

68

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

Stephen Ross

4.1

The best-selling Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (FCF) has three basic themes that are the central focus of the book:
1) An emphasis on intuition the authors separate and explain the principles at work on a common sense, intuitive level before launching into any specifics.
2) A unified valuation approach net present value (NPV) is treated as the basic concept underlying corporate finance.
3)

69

You Can Negotiate Anything: The World's Best Negotiator Tells You How To Get What You Want

Herb Cohen

4.1

Herb Cohen believes the world is a giant negotiating table and, like it or not, you're a negotiator. Whether you're dealing with your spouse, boss, department store, bank manager, children, solicitor, or best friend - in every encounter with other people, negotiating is always taking place. And how well you handle those encounters determines whether you prosper happily or suffer frustration and lo

70

A Pragmatist's Guide to Leveraged Finance: Credit Analysis for Bonds and Bank Debt (Paperback)

Robert S. Kricheff

4.1

The high-yield leveraged bond and loan market ("junk bonds") is now valued at $3+ trillion in North America, 1 trillion in Europe, and another $1 trillion in emerging markets. What's more, based on the maturity schedules of current debt, it's poised for massive growth. To successfully issue, evaluate, and invest in high-yield debt, however, financial professionals need credit and bond analysis ski

71

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

Guy Kawasaki

4.1

A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new organization, a new anything—where there’s a will, here’s the way. It begins with a dream that just won’t quit, the once-in-a-lifetime thunderbolt of pure inspiration, the obsession, the world-beater, the killer app, the next big thing. Everyone who wants to make the world a better place becomes possessed by a grand idea.
But what d

Recommended by Ev Williams and Deepak Hariharan.

Deepak Hariharan

Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki was my bible when I started up. If you plan to become an entrepreneur – this is an absolute must-read. [source]

72

HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business (HBR Guide Series)

Richard S. Ruback

4.1

Are you looking for an alternative career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you. You can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards - as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading a firm means you can be your own boss, put your executive skills to work, f

73

Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

McKinsey & Company Inc.

4.1

Valuation is the single best guide of its kind, helping financial professionals worldwide excel at measuring, managing, and maximizing shareholder and company value. This new seventh edition provides insights on the strategic advantages of value-based management, complete detailed instruction, and nuances managers should know about valuation and valuation techniques as applied to different industr

74

Venture Deals, 4th Edition: Be Smarter than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

Brad Feld

4.1

75

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

Daymond John, Daniel Paisner

4.1

Daymond John has been practicing the power of broke ever since he started selling his home-sewn t-shirts on the streets of Queens. With no funding and a $40 budget, Daymond had to come up with out-of-the box ways to promote his products. Luckily, desperation breeds innovation, and so he hatched an idea for a creative campaign that eventually launched the FUBU brand into a $6 billion dollar global

Recommended by Daymond John and Sujan Patel.

Sujan Patel

The Power of Broke is for anyone looking to crush those excuses for whatever is holding him or her back from success. Bootstrapping your way to success can be a viable and sustainable way to grow your empire. Author (and Shark Tank entreprepreneur) Daymond John built his own fashion label starting with home-sewn clothes and almost no money; he turned around his "broke" status with pure innovation. The book also explores how other everyday people took a similar approach. One entrepreneur, for instance, started a million-dollar cupcake business with the $33 balance in her checking account. [source]

76

Raising Private Capital: Building Your Real Estate Empire Using Other People's Money

Matt Faircloth

4.1

This book is intended to be a roadmap for real estate investors who are looking to raise their game by injecting more private capital into their business. In the word of real estate, there is more than one way to obtain the money you need: Traditional lending may work for some investors, but going to a bank is simply not an option. Matt will provide the step by step process to acquiring, securing

77

Cost of Capital: Applications and Examples

Shannon P. Pratt, Roger J. Grabowski

4.1

In this long-awaited Third Edition of Cost of Capital: Applications and Examples, renowned valuation experts and authors Shannon Pratt and Roger Grabowski address the most controversial issues and problems in estimating the cost of capital. This authoritative book makes a timely and significant contribution to the business valuation body of knowledge and is an essential part of the expert's librar

78

The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need

Andrew Tobias

4.1

“The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need . . . actually lives up to its name.” — Los Angeles Times

“So full of tips and angles that only a booby or a billionaire could not benefit.” — New York Times

For nearly forty years, The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need has been a favorite finance guide, earning the allegiance of more than a million readers across America. This completely updated ed

Recommended by Mark Cuban and Jeffrey Snover.

Jeffrey Snover

@AndrewTobias wrote a fantastic book about how to think about money, spending, saving, and investing. If you don't have these things in focus, I can STRONGLY recommend this book. https://t.co/wa4eOhkxXb https://t.co/hOU23B43Kl [source]

79

Essentials of Corporate Finance

Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, et al.

4.1

80

Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption

Ben Mezrich

4.1

The fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's big bet on crypto-currency and its dazzling pay-off.

Planning to start careers as venture capitalists, the brothers quickly discover that no one will take their money after their fight with Zuckerberg. While nursing their wounds in Ibiza, they accidentally run into an eccentric character who tells them about a brand-new idea: cryptocu

Recommended by Kim Dotcom and Bill Lee.

Kim Dotcom

The Winklevoss brothers mailed me this awesome must-read book #bitcoinbillionaires with a really nice personal note. Thank you @winklevoss and @tylerwinklevoss. Facebook was stolen from you but what you’ve created since then is even more impressive. Crypto is the future. https://t.co/iAkfU1Dm65 [source]

Bill Lee

Thank you @tylerwinklevoss @winklevoss for sending me the must read @benmezrich book with the nice signed note. You guys are ushering in the crypto revolution and have captured lightning in a bottle again. #respect #BitcoinBillionaires https://t.co/QNaJLkQPJa [source]

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#GIRLBOSS

Sophia Amoruso

4.1

In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called “Lean In for misfits,” Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world.

Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. By age twenty-two she had dropped out of school, and was broke, directionless, and c

Recommended by Andrea Loubier, Chelsea Frank, and Vincenzo Ruggiero.

Andrea Loubier

The 10% Entrepreneur and Girlboss. Both empower people to create a strategic plan and risk-taking that are needed for considering entrepreneurship. A lot of it is experimenting, learning and just doing. [source]

Chelsea Frank

I read everything with an open mind, often challenging myself by choosing books with an odd perspective or religious/spiritual views. These books do not reflect my personal feelings but are books that helped shape my perspective on life, love, and happiness. [source]

Vincenzo Ruggiero

Question: What books would you recommend to young people interested in your career path? Answer: Rework, Getting real and Remote - The combo from Fried and DHH. Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso From Impossible To Inevitable by Aaron Ross & Jason Lemkin How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross Content Machine by Dan Norris Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance Contagious by Jonah Berger [source]

82

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

Scott Galloway

4.1

Preview Summary

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong.

For all that's been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway.

Instead of buyin

Recommended by Angela Pham, Cat Williams-Treloar, Craig Pearce, and 1 others.

Angela Pham

I’m in the middle of The Four, which takes an awestruck-but-critical look at the four largest tech companies. [source]

Cat Williams-Treloar

Scott Galloway "The four" - because that's where the Marketing world is. I like the book for its honesty. [source]

Craig Pearce

I am currently reading The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. I was introduced to the author, Scott Galloway during his appearance on the aforementioned Recode Decode podcast, specifically episode released on September 14. His opinion and thoughts on the big 4 (Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google) lead me to research him. I put a hold on his book from my local library and waited a few weeks. A great thing about this book is its recency, for example, it includes Amazon’s recent acquisition of WholeFoods. So far, it has covered, in entertaining detail, Amazon and Apple. The author writes with great knowledge, mixed with the right amount of wit. The author argues that Apple is sex, Google is God, Facebook is love and Amazon is our gut. By aligning with these roles in our lives, they have become wildly successful. I hope to hear an expansion of his positions he discussed on the podcast, and hope to apply some of strategies into my own startup. [source]

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83

Starting a Business QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Launching a Successful Small Business, Turning Your Vision into Reality, and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Dream

Ken Colwell PhD MBA

4.1

Starting a Business QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Launching a Successful Small Business, Turning Your Vision into Reality, and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Dream

THE ULTIMATE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO STARTING A BUSINESS IN 2019!

Have you ever dreamt of starting your own business and living life on your terms?

This book shows you EXACTLY what you need to know to stand out from the

84

Smart Pricing: How Google, Priceline, and Leading Businesses Use Pricing Innovation for Profitability

Jagmohan Raju, Z. John Zhang

4.1

In "Smart Pricing: How Google, Priceline and Leading Businesses Use Pricing Innovation for Profitability, " Wharton professors and renowned pricing experts Jagmohan Raju and Z. John Zhang draw on examples from high tech to low tech, from consumer markets to business markets, and from U.S. to abroad, to tell the stories of how innovative pricing strategies can help companies create and capture valu

85

Day Trading: A Beginner's Guide on How to Trade, Living in the Market and Make Money with Day Trading Investing in Stocks, Forex, and Options with the Best Futures and Strategies for a Trader in 2019

Henry Hill

4.1

What is Day Trading? Are you a beginner and have no clue about day trading? Do you want to become rich? Read On..

The truth is.. Broadly defined as buying and selling the same security in a single day. Armed with a large amount of data, and an even larger bankroll, the best day traders take advantage of high amounts of leverage as well as strategies for success that come to fruition in the short t

86

Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul

Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon

4.0

Preview Summary

In 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision to return as the CEO eight years after he stepped down from daily oversight of the company and became chairman. Concerned that Starbucks had lost its way, Schultz was determined to help it return to its core values and restore not only its financial health, but also its soul. In Onward, he shares the

Recommended by Ron Conway.

Ron Conway

Story of his return to Starbucks, and the success of the company in a tumlutuous economic time in history. [source]

87

The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes

Mark Douglas

4.0

The classic book that introduced the investment industry to the concept of trading psychology.

With rare insight based on his firsthand commodity trading experience, author Mark Douglas demonstrates how the mental matters that allow us function effectively in society are often psychological barriers in trading. After examining how we develop losing attitudes, this book prepares you for a thorough "

88

Quality Financial Reporting

Paul B. W. Miller, Paul R. Bahnson

4.0

89

Finance for Nonfinancial Managers

Gene Siciliano

4.0

AN INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL REPORTS--WITH NEW TACTICS FOR BUDGETING AND PINPOINTING KEY FINANCIAL AREAS Financial decisions impact virtually every area of your company. As a manager, it's up to you to understand how and why.

"Finance for Nonfinancial Managers" helps you understand the information in essential financial reports and then shows you how to use that understanding to make informed, inte

90

Creating Shareholder Value: A Guide for Managers and Investors

Alfred Rappaport

4.0

Economist, consultant, and Wall Street Journal contributor Alfred Rappaport provides managers and investors with the practical tools and tests for a corporate strategy that creates shareholder value.

The ultimate test of corporate strategy, the only reliable measure, is whether it creates economic value for shareholders.

After a decade of downsizings frequently blamed on shareholder value decision m

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91

Banking on Digital Growth: The Strategic Marketing Manifesto to Transform Financial Brands

James Robert Lay

4.0

If you're part of a financial brand marketing, sales, or leadership team, you know the entire industry is in the midst of exponential change fueled by new technologies.

Consumers now make purchase decisions long before they walk into a physical branch location, if they walk into a branch at all, while mobile banks, digital lenders, and fintechs have transformed traditional growth models rooted in l

92

Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days

Guillebeau Chris

4.0

The author of the New York Times Bestseller THE $100 STARTUP shows how to launch a profitable side hustle in just 27 days.

For some people, the thought of quitting their day job to pursue the entrepreneurial life is exhilarating. For many others, it's terrifying. After all, a stable job that delivers a regular paycheck is a blessing. And not everyone has the means or the desire to take on the risks

Recommended by Jane Friedman.

Jane Friedman

@michellemdutt great to meet you! and just to be sure, here’s a direct link to that book I recommended - https://t.co/ne91rOHoiU [source]

93

Capital Returns: Investing Through the Capital Cycle: A Money Manager's Reports 2002-15

Edward Chancellor

4.0

We live in an age of serial asset bubbles and spectacular busts. Economists, policymakers, central bankers and most people in the financial world have been blindsided by these busts, while investors have lost trillions.

Economists argue that bubbles can only be spotted after they burst and that market moves are unpredictable. Yet Marathon Asset Management, a London-based investment firm managing o

94

Options, Futures and Other Derivatives

John C. Hull

4.0

Bridge the gap between theory and practice.

Designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice, this introductory text on the futures and options markets is ideal for those with a limited background in mathematics.

The eighth edition has been updated and improved–featuring a new chapter on securitization and the credit crisis, and increased discussion on the way commodity prices are modeled and

95

Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond

Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin, Michael van Biema

4.0

From the "guru to Wall Street's gurus" comes the fundamental techniques of value investing and their applications
Bruce Greenwald is one of the leading authorities on value investing. Some of the savviest people on Wall Street have taken his Columbia Business School executive education course on the subject. Now this dynamic and popular teacher, with some colleagues, reveals the fundamental princi

96

Principles Of Corporate Finance

Richard A. Brealey, Stewart Myers

4.0

FROM THE PUBLISHER Brealey/Myers' Principles of Corporate Finance is the worldwide leading text that describes the theory and practice of corporate finance. Throughout the book the authors show how managers use financial theory to solve practical problems and as a way of learning how to respond to change by showing not just how but why companies and management act as they do. The text is comprehen

97

Corporate Finance Theory and Practice

Aswath Damodaran

4.0

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The Startup Way: Making Entrepreneurship a Fundamental Discipline of Every Enterprise

Eric Ries

4.0

Entrepreneur and bestselling author of The Lean Startup Eric Ries reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses ranging from established companies to early-stage startups to grow revenues, drive innovation, and emerge as truly modern organizations poised to take advantage of the enormous opportunities of the 21st century.

In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries laid out the practices of

Recommended by Reid Hoffman, Aaron Levie, Arianna Huffington, and 5 others.

Reid Hoffman

CEO/LinkedIn

Continuous innovation is the key to long-term impact and success. Eric shows how organizations of all kinds—not just startups—can be built to learn and adapt. In the pivot-or-perish networked world of twenty-first-century business, this is mission critical reading. [source]

Aaron Levie

Co-founder/Box

The Startup Way teaches companies of all sizes how to effectively incubate and maintain an entrepreneurial culture through growth by allowing employees to find their inner entrepreneur. A must read, especially, by all leaders burdened by legacy organizational baggage and processes. [source]

Arianna Huffington

Founder/The Huffington Post

In The Startup Way, Eric Ries uses his years of work with companies like GE and Toyota to show us what the company of the future will look like. If you want to know how companies can become more agile, more innovative, and more resilient in the face of today’s relentless pace of change, this is the book for you. [source]

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The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time

Jim McKelvey

4.0

From the cofounder of Square, an inspiring and entertaining account of what it means to be a true entrepreneur and what it takes to build a resilient, world-changing company

In 2009, a St. Louis glassblowing artist and recovering computer scientist named Jim McKelvey lost a sale because he couldn't accept American Express cards. Frustrated by the high costs and difficulty of accepting credit card p

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Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook: Create and extend realworld solutions using Dynamics 365 Operations

Simon Buxton

4.0

Have the best tools at your fingertips to extend and maximize the efficiency of your business management About This Book - Follow practical and easy-to-grasp examples, illustrations and coding to make the most out of Dynamics 365 for Operations in your business scenario - Extend Dynamics 365 for Operations in a cost-effective manner by using tools you already have - Solve common business problems with the valuable features of Dynamics 365 for Operations Who This Book Is For This book is for those who are getting to grips with Dynamics 365 for Operations developers or those migrating from C# development. The guide includes information essential for new and experienced Dynamics 365 for Operations developers. What You Will Learn - Create enumerated and extended data types - Understand the importance of using patterns and frameworks while creating a unique concept for your solution - Service and deploy your code and packages to improve performance - Write and perform unit tests to automate the testing process - Design your security model and policies to provide code access privileges - Construct the UI and business logic to add Power BI to dashboards In Detail Dynamics 365 for Operations is the ERP element of Microsoft's new Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition. Operations delivers the infrastructure to allow businesses to achieve growth and make better decisions using scalable and contemporary ERP system tools. This book provides a collection of "recipes" to instruct you on how to create-and extend-a real-world solution using Operations. All key aspects of the new release are covered, and insights into the development language, structure, and tools are discussed in detail. New concepts and patterns that are pivotal to elegant solution designs are introduced and explained, and readers will learn how to extend various aspects of the system to enhance both the usability and capabilities of Operations. Together, this gives the reader important context regarding the new concepts and the confidence to reuse in their own solution designs. This "cookbook" provides the ingredients and methods needed to maximize the efficiency of your business management using the latest in ERP software-Dynamics 365 for Operations. Style and approach The book takes a practical recipe-based approach, focusing on real-world scenarios and giving you all the information you need to build a strong Dynamics 365 for Operations implementation.