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13 Must Read Books For Startups

"Reading makes ready man"~said Francis Becon. Therefore, having a handpicked, gratifying, and effective reading list for start-ups is important. This list is an overall indiscriminate reading list that shades light on multiple areas of start-up and building a company. It includes reading on how to generate ideas, how to start and make it happen step by step, how to spread idea, how to build your habit and how to think. Happy reading. 

1. Lean startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries

2. The Startup owner’s manual: Step by step guide for building a great company by Steve Blank

3. Give & Take: A revolutionary approach to success by Adam Grant

4. Linchpin by Seth Godin

5. A technique for getting ideas by James Young Wood

6. Stay Hungry, Stay foolish by Rasmi Bansal

7. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

8. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

9. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur

10. Manage your day to day: Build your routine, find your focus, and sharpen your creative mind by 99u

11. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Chares Duhigg

12. What I wish I knew when I was 20 by Tina Seelig

13. The 80/20 principle: The secret to success by achieving more with less by Richard Koch

Bonus:

1. Master mind: How to think like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova

2. The everything store: Jeff Bezos & the age of Amazon by Brad Stone

3. Thinking, Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Mohammad Ruhul Kader is a Dhaka-based entrepreneur and writer. He founded Future Startup, a digital publication covering the startup and technology scene in Dhaka with an ambition to transform Bangladesh through entrepreneurship and innovation. He writes about internet business, strategy, technology, and society. He is the author of Rethinking Failure. His writings have been published in almost all major national dailies in Bangladesh including DT, FE, etc. Prior to FS, he worked for a local conglomerate where he helped start a social enterprise. Ruhul is a 2022 winner of Emergent Ventures, a fellowship and grant program from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He can be reached at [email protected]

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