Entrepreneurial Foundations
The Lean Startup
This is one of the most influential books in modern entrepreneurship and remains a useful introduction to validated learning, minimum viable products, Build-Mea…
The Startup Owner’s Manual
This is more detailed and operational than The Lean Startup.
The Four Steps to the Epiphany
This is the original source of Blank’s Customer Development methodology.
Disciplined Entrepreneurship
Aulet provides a highly structured, step-by-step approach to building a startup, beginning with market segmentation and proceeding through customer definition,…
Zero to One
This is a provocative strategy book rather than a complete startup manual.
The E-Myth Revisited
Although written primarily for small-business owners rather than venture-backed technology founders, this is one of the clearest books on the danger of building…