Helpful Resources for Entrepreneurs
Below is a list of some good books and documents that address various facets of entrepreneurship in start-up, non-profit, corporate and governmental contexts:
Books
- Weird Ideas That Work: How to Build a Creative Company
- Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace
- 101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques: The Handbook of New Ideas for Business
- The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm
- Disruption
- Expect the Unexpected (or You Won’t Find It): A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus
- Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy
- Jumpstart Your Brain
- Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market–And How to Successfully Transform Them
- When Sparks Fly: Harnessing the Power of Group Creativity
- The Creative Priority : Putting Innovation to Work in Your Business
- Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation
- A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative
- The Act of Creation
- The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
- Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life(Hamel)
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty
- The MAVERICK MINDSET: FINDING THE COURAGE TO JOURNEY FROM FEAR TO FREEDOM
- Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business
- Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Csikszentmihalyi)
- Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness
- A Good Hard Kick in the Ass: Basic Training for Entrepreneurs
- Flash Of Brilliance: Inspiring Creativity Where You Work
- Radical Marketing: From Harvard to Harley, Lessons from Ten That Broke the Rules and Made It Big
- The Nordstrom Way: The Inside Story of America’s #1 Customer Service Company
- The Individualized Corporation: A Fundamentally New Approach to Management
- Developing a Market Orientation
- Real Time
- Enterprising Nonprofits: A Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs
- Leadership Jazz: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader
- Experiential Marketing
- Forbes Greatest Technology Stories: Inspiring Tales of the Entrepreneurs and Inventors Who Revolutionized Modern Business
- Counterintuitive Marketing: Achieve Great Results Using Uncommon Sense
- Corning and the Craft of Innovation
- Driving Customer Equity : How Customer Lifetime Value is Reshaping Corporate Strategy
- The Nudist on the Late Shift: And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley
- Rules For Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services
- Inside the Tornado: Strategies for Developing, Leveraging, and Surviving Hypergrowth Markets
- Marketing Imagination, New, Expanded Edition
- Growing Pains: Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm
- Entrepreneur America: Lessons from Inside Rob Ryan’s High-Tech Start-Up Boot Camp
- Venture Capital Handbook: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Raising Venture Capital, Revised and Updated Edition
- The Market Driven Organization: Understanding, Attracting, and Keeping Valuable Customers
- The Book of Entrepreneurs’ Wisdom: Classic Writings by Legendary Entrepreneurs
- Convergence Marketing: Combining Brand and Direct Marketing for Unprecedented Profits
- Bringing Your Product to Market: Fast-Track Approaches to Cashing in on Your Great Idea
- Clockspeed : Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage
- Bootstrap Capital: Microenterprises and the American Poor
- Off The Wall Marketing Ideas: Jumpstart Your Sales without Busting Your Budget
- Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook
- The 4 Routes to Entrepreneurial Success
- Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
- The Circle of Innovation: You Can’t Shrink Your Way to Greatness
- Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
- Relentless
- Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector
- Successful Strategies Entrepreneurs Use…
- Crossing the Chasm
- Competing for the Future
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life
- The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow’s Profits
- Corporate Innovation, Marketing and Strategy
- The Venture Cafe : Secrets, Strategies, and Stories from America’s High-Tech Entrepreneurs
- The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life
- THE EMPTY RAINCOAT : MAKING SENSE OF THE FUTURE.
- Change Masters
- When Giants Learn To Dance
- Intrapreneuring
- Entrepreneurship as Strategy: Competing on the Entrepreneurial Edge
- The Soul Of A New Machine
- Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (P.S.)
- Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution
- Inside Corporate Innovation
- Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius
- Creativity at Work
- Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
- Growing a Business
- Flash Of Brilliance: Inspiring Creativity Where You Work
- Future Perfect
- The Age of Unreason
- Imaginization
- Entrepreneuring in Established Companies -
- The Icarus Paradox: How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall
- Losing My Virginity: How I’ve Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
- Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire
- Angel Investing: Matching Startup Funds with Startup Companies–The Guide for Entrepreneurs and Individual Investors
- The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship
- New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century with Online Learning Center access card
- Venture Capital Due Diligence: A Guide to Making Smart Investment Choices and Increasing Your Portfolio Returns
- The Venture Capital Cycle
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
- Attracting Capital From Angels: How Their Money – and Their Experience – Can Help You Build a Successful Company
- Structuring Venture Capital, Private Funding, and Equity for Early-Stage Companies
- Corporate Entrepreneurship