Top Entrepreneurship books recommended by experts

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Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship

Understanding the concepts of Entrepreneurship starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

The Four Steps to the Epiphany" by Steve Blank is an entrepreneurial guidebook that outlines a practical approach to launching successful products by emphasizing customer discovery, validation, creation, and development.

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Traction: Get A Grip On Your Business

Traction: Get A Grip On Your Business

1-Sentence Summary: Traction by Gino Wickman is an informative guide on building a firm using the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). 3-Sentence Summary: Wickman works with entrepreneurs who want to expand their businesses using the Entrepreneurial Operating System and gives them the tools to do it.

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$100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff

$100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff

This book contains the playbooks that took me from sleeping on my gym floor to owning a portfolio of companies that generate $200,000,000 per year in under a decade. Wanna know the biggest difference between those two time periods? How many leads I was getting. The problem is - most business owners don’t know how to get leads.

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Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Purple Cow describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat-out unbelievable. In his now-legendary New York Times bestseller, Seth Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable.

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Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur

Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur

Girl Code is a roadmap for female entrepreneurs, professional women, "side hustlers" (those with a day job plus a part-time small business), and anyone in between. This book won't teach you how to build a multimillion-dollar company. It won't teach you about systems or finance.

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