Entrepreneurship books recommended by Seth Godin
“Are successful entrepreneurs made or born?”
We’d need to start with an understanding of what an entrepreneur is. They’re all over the map, which makes the question particularly difficult to navigate.
Entrepreneurship is a chance to trade a solution to someone who has a problem that needs solving.
Solve more problems, solve bigger problems, solve problems more widely and you’re an entrepreneur.
Entrepreneurial behaviour isn’t about scale, it’s about a desire for a certain kind of journey.
100 Side Hustles by Chris Guillebeau
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Growth IQ by Tiffani Bova
"Tiffani Bova has written a smart book about smart decisions" Read more
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How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling by Frank Bettger
"There's no such thing as a born salesperson.
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What there are… are people with empathy and learned charisma who choose to work hard.
If you show up and show up and show up, and care enough to learn to connect, you will have a skill for life.
It takes a while, but it’s learnable. (This) will help you learn the long-game, the generous long game." Read more
Buy on AmazonSnap Selling by Jill Konrath
"There's no such thing as a born salesperson.
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What there are… are people with empathy and learned charisma who choose to work hard.
If you show up and show up and show up, and care enough to learn to connect, you will have a skill for life.
It takes a while, but it’s learnable. (This) will help you learn the long-game, the generous long game." Read more
Buy on AmazonEat Their Lunch by Anthony Iannarino
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Buy on AmazonThe Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need by Anthony Iannarino
"There's no such thing as a born salesperson.
Category: Entrepreneurship
What there are… are people with empathy and learned charisma who choose to work hard.
If you show up and show up and show up, and care enough to learn to connect, you will have a skill for life.
It takes a while, but it’s learnable. (This) will help you learn the long-game, the generous long game." Read more
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The Psychology of Selling by Brian Tracy
"There's no such thing as a born salesperson.
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What there are… are people with empathy and learned charisma who choose to work hard.
If you show up and show up and show up, and care enough to learn to connect, you will have a skill for life.
It takes a while, but it’s learnable. (This) will help you learn the long-game, the generous long game." Read more
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Dear Client by Bonnie Siegler
"Bonnie's rules for being a better client - she has more than 60 in her delightful new book.
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To Sell Is Human by Daniel H. Pink
"What would happen if the next all hands meeting got cancelled and instead the organization had an all hands-on read instead?
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Here are more than twenty books you might want to read at work today. You and ten co-workers reading together... it might change everything" Read more
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
"What would happen if the next all hands meeting got cancelled and instead the organization had an all hands-on read instead?
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Here are more than twenty books you might want to read at work today. You and ten co-workers reading together... it might change everything" Read more
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Zen Habits by Leo Babauta
"Leo's productivity insights are scary in their simplicity and effectiveness." Read more
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Zig Ziglar’s Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar
"The biggest challenge most executives face is selling their ideas, not their products. And selling internally is a lot like selling in the street. This is the best book I've ever read about selling anything at all..." Read more
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Buy on AmazonZilch by Nancy Lublin
"Nancy Lublin on learning from causes." Read more
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Upbeat by Rajesh Setty
"New marketing and new business thinking for those open to hearing it. Rajesh is consistently generous with his wisdom." Read more
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Value Proposition Design by Alex Osterwalder
"Alex Osterwalder is on a roll, and his books are all worth your time and money." Read more
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We Are All Weird by Seth Godin
"The end of mass and how you can succeed by delighting a niche." Read more
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The Republic of Tea by Mel Ziegler
"Out of print, but findable, this is a book about an entrepreneur getting his head around the otaku of his audience." Read more
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Tour:Smart by Martin Atkins
"One of the best books on the logistics and strategy of street, local and band marketing." Read more
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Buy on AmazonThe Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz
"Hard-hitting advice aimed directly at the entrepreneur who is stuck being a wandering generality instead of a meaningful specific. Plenty of seeds worth planting." Read more
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The Pursuit of Wow! by Tom Peters
"Tom Peters at his best--the book that will push you to do the safe (risky) thing you must do to make your products remarkable." Read more
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The Magic of Thinking Big by David Joseph Schwartz
"Old old old. Good good good. More than a self help book (if you're afraid of those, please don't be), and quite vintage, it might open some doors for you. No, strike that. IT WILL open doors." Read more
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The Mesh by Lisa Gansky
"This is hands-on, well-researched and inspiring. Halfway through, you can see how the new wave of business is going to unfold." Read more
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The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
"A book I wish I'd read earlier in my career" Read more
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Buy on AmazonThe Little Big Things by Thomas J. Peters
"And what a great title! Tom is a daily habit for me, and has been for twenty-five (gasp!) years. This is the guy who invented all of it. His latest is a whirlwind tour of some of his biggest and best." Read more
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Buy on AmazonSelling the Dream by Guy Kawasaki
"Guy has written several irrestible books, but this is a great place to start. It's all about starting the virus." Read more
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Buy on AmazonSmall Is The New Big by Seth Godin
"long book filled with short pieces from Fast Company and the blog. Guaranteed to make you think." Read more
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The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
"If you liked the Bootstrapper's Bible, this one is a keeper.
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Side note: in the world of search boxes, Chris' last name is a serious impediment to user adoption. Hard to spell, hard to find, worth it." Read more
Buy on AmazonLinchpin by Seth Godin
"An instant bestseller, the book that brings all of Seth's ideas together. Has probably changed more minds and more lives than any other." Read more
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Buy on AmazonMeaningful by Bernadette Jiwa
"Bernadette Jiwa's brilliant new book is out this week." Read more
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New Rules for the New Economy by Kevin Kelly
"Kevin Kelly does the non-fiction version of Snow Crash. Even a decade later, this book informs, provokes and guides.
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The thing about the internet pioneers is that most of them weren't just a flash in the pan. Kevin co-founded Wired magazine and continues to be one of the most influential writers online.
It's hard to imagine spending time working online and not understanding what he wrote about here." Read more
Buy on AmazonGetting Things Done by David Allen
"On Overcoming Resistance and Getting Creative" Read more
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Buy on AmazonCrazy Is a Compliment by Linda Rottenberg
"Linda Rottenberg has changed the world, and she wants to show you how." Read more
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Developing The Qualities of Success by Zig Ziglar
"Designed to be repeated, put it in your car on autorepeat. A classic" Read more
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A Beautiful Constraint by Adam Morgan
"It's a worldview changer" Read more
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Buy on AmazonAnything You Want by Derek Sivers
"Anything You Want is a business book like no other. Derek Sivers built a business a different way, a human way. He did it with no investment and a series of apparently crazy principles. And they work. They worked for him and they might work for you. A brilliant book." Read more
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