12 Months to $1 Million
Ryan Daniel Moran
A roadmap for entrepreneurs to build a million-dollar business in twelve months. This book provides a proven plan with step-by-step guidance, mindset development, and strategies for product selection, funding, marketing, and scaling. Learn how to create change through business and achieve financial freedom.
Anything You Want
Derek Sivers
A collection of 40 lessons distilled from the author's experience of starting, growing, and selling CD Baby for $22 million. It challenges conventional business wisdom and offers a unique perspective on creating a company that aligns with personal values and dreams.
24 Assets
Daniel Priestley
Discover the 24 assets your business needs to thrive in the digital age. Learn how to build a scalable, valuable, and enjoyable business by focusing on creating unique digital assets that drive income and create stability. This book provides a framework for developing these assets and leveraging them with the right tools to achieve either a lifestyle or a performance business.
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Zero to One is about how to build companies that create new things. It draws on everything Peter Thiel learned directly as a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir and then an investor in hundreds of startups, including Facebook and SpaceX. This book offers no formula for success. The paradox of teaching entrepreneurship is that such a formula necessarily cannot exist; because every innovation is new and unique, no authority can prescribe in concrete terms how to be innovative.
The SaaS Playbook
Rob Walling
A comprehensive guide to building a multimillion-dollar SaaS startup without relying on venture capital. Rob Walling shares his extensive experience and proven strategies for launching and growing a successful SaaS business, covering everything from market selection and pricing to marketing, team building, and mindset.
Insights
Chris LoPresti
This book compiles practical wisdom and candid advice from 101 highly successful Yale entrepreneurs. Through easily digestible reflections, it covers crucial aspects of starting and growing a business, from managing risk and building a team to fostering perseverance and finding passion. It offers invaluable lessons learned the hard way, designed to help aspiring and current entrepreneurs navigate the challenges and opportunities of their ventures.
Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder
A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow’s enterprises. It offers powerful, simple, tested tools for understanding, designing, reworking, and implementing business models. Learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a new business model — or analyze and renovate an old one.
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Lean Startup provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in any sector. By focusing on validated learning, rapid experimentation, and iterative product releases, entrepreneurs can learn what customers want and build sustainable businesses. This book offers a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.