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The $100 Startup

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future - by Chris Guillebeau

In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose – and earn a...

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The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding

The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding - by Al Ries

This marketing classic has been expanded to include new commentary, new illustrations, and a bonus book: The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding
Smart and accessible, The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding is the definitive text on branding...

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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate them at Your Own Ris

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! - by Al Ries

In The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Ries and Trout offer a compendium of twenty-two innovative rules for understanding and succeeding in...

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The 4-Hour Body

The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman- by Timothy Ferriss

The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to...

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The 4-Hour Work Week

The 4-Hour Workweek - by Timothy Ferriss

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, or earning a...

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The 7 Day Startup

The 7 Day Startup: You Don't Learn Until You Launch - by Dan Norris

From generating ideas to gaining your first paying customers, The 7 Day Startup is the bootstrapper's bible for launching your next...

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The 80/20 Principle

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less - by Richard Koch

Be more effective with less effort by learning how to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle: that 80 percent of all our results in business and in life stem from a mere 20 percent of our efforts.
The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of...

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All Marketers are Liars

All Marketers are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All - by Seth Godin

All marketers tell stories. And if they do it right, we believe them. We believe that wine tastes better in a $20 glass than a $1 glass. We believe that an...

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Anything You Want

Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur - by Derek Sivers

You can follow the beaten path and call yourself an entrepreneur or you can blaze your own trail and really be one.
When Derek Sivers started CD Baby, he wasn’t planning on...

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The Art of Learning

The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance - by Josh Waitzkin

In his riveting new book, The Art of Learning, Waitzkin tells his remarkable story of personal achievement and shares the principles of learning and performance that have propelled him to the top—twice.
Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his first...

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The Art of Taking Action

The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology - by Gregg Krech

Gregg Krech opened new doors to self-reflection in his book, Naikan: Gratitude, Grace and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection. Now he draws on Eastern philosophy, Buddhism, Japanese Psychology, Zen, and Martial Arts to offer an approach to ACTION that goes...

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The Artist's Journey

The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning - by Steven Pressfield

On our artist’s journey, we move past Resistance and past self-sabotage. We discover our true selves and our authentic calling, and we produce the...

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Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - by James Clear

Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to...

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Blue Ocean Strategy

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant - by W. Chan Kim & Renée A. Mauborgne

In this perennial bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about...

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Bold

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World - by Peter H. Diamandis

A radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools, Bold unfolds in three parts. Part One focuses on the exponential technologies that are...

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Building a StoryBrand

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen - by Donald Miller

Donald Miller's StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides listeners with...

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Buyology

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy - by Martin Lindstrom

How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today's message-cluttered world? An eye-grabbing advertisement, a catchy...

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Company of One

Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business - by Paul Jarvis

What if the real key to a richer and more fulfilling career was not to create and scale a new start-up, but rather, to be able to work for yourself, determine your...

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Contagious

Contagious: Why Things Catch On - by Jonah Berger

Contagious provides a set of specific, actionable techniques for helping information spread—for designing messages, advertisements, and content that...

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Creativity Inc.

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - by Ed Catmull

Creativity, Inc. is a manual for anyone who strives for originality and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation—into the meetings, postmortems, and...

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Crossing the Chasm

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers - by Geoffrey A. Moore

The bible for bringing cutting-edge products to larger markets--now revised and updated with new insights into the realities of...

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Deep Work

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - by Cal Newport

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better...

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Delivering Happiness

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose - by Tony Hsieh

In DELIVERING HAPPINESS, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh shares the different lessons he has learned in business and life, from starting a worm farm to running a pizza business, through LinkExchange, Zappos, and...

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The Design of Everyday Things

The Design of Everyday Things - by Don Norman

Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or...

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The Dip

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) - by Seth Godin

In this iconic bestseller, popular business blogger and bestselling author Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt—until they commit to beating the right...

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Do The Work

Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way - by Steven Pressfield

"There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save...

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Don't Make Me Think

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - by Steve Krug

Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and...

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - by Ashlee Vance

Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who...

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The E-Myth Revisited

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It - by Michael E. Gerber

An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business. Small business consultant and author Michael E. Gerber, with sharp insight gained from years of experience, points out how common assumptions, expectations, and even technical expertise can...

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Eat That Frog!

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time - by Brian Tracy

There just isn't enough time for everything on our to-do list—and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure those...

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The Effective Executive

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done - by Peter F. Drucker

The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as...

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Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Yo

Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving - by Noah Fleming

So why do so many companies act like adrenalin junkies, chasing after new customers at the expense of creating deeper, more profitable relationships with the ones they already have? Evergreen exposes the mad pursuit for what it is: a brief spike in...

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Founders at Work

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days - by Jessica Livingston

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak...

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The Happiness Advantage

The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life - by Shawn Achor

Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that...

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - by Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on...

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Hooked

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - by Nir Eyal with Ryan Hoover

Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?
Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model—a...

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How To Win Friends and Influence People

How To Win Friends and Influence People - by Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. One of the most...

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Ignore Everybody

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity - by Hugh MacLeod

When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog-gapingvoid.com-and a reputation for pithy insight and humor, in both words and...

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Influence

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.

Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of...

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Innovator's Dilemma

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail - by Clayton M. Christensen

The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen.
His work is cited by the world’s best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller—one of the most influential...

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Inspired

INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love - by Marty Cagan

How do today’s most successful tech companies—Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla—design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the...

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In The Plex

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives - by Steven Levy

Written with full cooperation from top management, including cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this is the inside story behind Google, the most successful and most admired technology company of our time, told by one of our best...

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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work - by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today.
In Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson introduced a new path to working effectively. Now, they build on...

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Keep Going

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Time and Bad - by Austin Kleon

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most...

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The Lean Startup

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses - by Eric Ries

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a...

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Made To Stick

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die - by Chip Heath

Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus news stories circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with...

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MakeBook.io

Make: Bootstrapper's Handbook - by Pieter Levels

Get an idea from problems in your own life. If you don't have problems that are original enough, become a more original person. Don't build products that are solutions in search of...

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The Master Switch

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires - by Tim Wu

Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today’s great information powers–Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T–Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets...

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Measure What Matters

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs - by John Doerr

In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had...

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The Million-Dollar One-Person Business

The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business: Make Great Money. Work the Way You Like. Have the Life You Want. - by Elaine Pofeldt

The rise of one-million-dollar, one-person businesses in the past five years is the biggest trend in employment today, offering the widest range of...

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Mindset

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - by Carol S. Dweck

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in...

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Netflixed

Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs - by Gina Keating

The inside story of Netflix’s incredible rise and uncertain future as master of the video universe
Netflix has come a long way since 1997, when Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings decided to start an online DVD store before most people owned a...

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Nobody Wants To Read Your Shit

Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It - by Steven Pressfield

There's a mantra that real writers know but wannabe writers don’t. And the secret phrase is this:
NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR SH*T.
Recognizing this painful truth is the first step in the writer's transformation from amateur to...

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Nudge

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - by Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein

Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we champion or...

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The Obstacle Is The Way

The Obstacle Is The Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph - by Ryan Holiday

The book draws its inspiration from stoicism, the ancient Greek philosophy of enduring pain or adversity with perseverance and resilience. Stoics focus on the things they can control, let go of everything else, and...

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Ogilvy On Advertising

Ogilvy On Advertising - by David Ogilvy

Told with brutal candor and prodigal generosity, David Ogilvy reveals:
• How to get a job in advertising
• How to choose an agency for your product
• The secrets behind advertising that works
• How to write successful...

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Outliers

Outliers: The Story of Success - by Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?
His answer is that we pay too much attention to...

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Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Last

Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts - by Ryan Holiday

Bestselling author and marketer Ryan Holiday calls such works and artists perennial sellers. How do they endure and thrive while most books, movies, songs, video games, and pieces of art disappear quickly after initial success? How can we create and market creative works that achieve longevity?
Holiday explores this mystery by drawing on...

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The Power of Habit

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - by Charles Duhigg

In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into...

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Priceless

Pricelss: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) - by William Poundstone

In Priceless, the bestselling author William Poundstone reveals the hidden psychology of value. In psychological experiments, people are unable to estimate "fair" prices accurately and are strongly influenced by...

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Principles

Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to...

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Purple Cow

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable - by Seth Godin

In Purple Cow, first published in 2003 and revised and expanded in 2009, Godin launched a movement to make truly remarkable products that are worth marketing in the first place. Through stories about companies like...

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Rework

Rework - by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on...

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Rocket Surgery

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems

It's been known for years that usability testing can dramatically improve products. But with a typical price tag of $5,000 to $10,000 for a usability consultant to conduct each round of tests, it rarely happens.
In this how-to companion to Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug spells out a streamlined approach to...

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Sam Walton

Sam Walton: Made In America - by Sam Walton

Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of...

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Shoe Dog

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his father and launched a company with one simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost running shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his car in 1963, Knight grossed eight thousand dollars that first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. In this...

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Show Your Work

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered - by Austin Kleon

In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and...

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Small Giants

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big - by Bo Burlingham

It’s an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at...

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Sprint

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days - by Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky & Braden Kowitz

From three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies.
Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to...

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The Start-Up J Curve

The Start-Up J Curve: The Six Steps to Entrepreneurial Success - by Howard Love

A startup unfolds in a predictable pattern; the more aware entrepreneurs are of this pattern, the better able they will be to capitalize on it. Author Howard Love calls this pattern the start-up J Curve: The toughest part of the endeavor is the time between...

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Steal Like an Artist

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative - by Austin Kleon

An inspiring guide to creativity in the digital age, Steal Like an Artist presents ten transformative principles that will help readers discover their artistic side and build a more creative life.
Nothing is original, so embrace influence, school yourself through the work of...

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - by Mark Manson

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become...

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman

In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a...

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This Is Marketing

This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See - by Seth Godin

This is Marketing shows you how to do work you're proud of, whether you're a tech startup founder, a small business owner, or part of a large corporation.
Great marketers don't use consumers to...

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The Tipping Point

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

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like...

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To Sell Is Human

To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others - by Daniel H. Pink

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase.
But dig deeper and a...

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Tools of Titans

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers - by Timothy Ferriss

“For the last two years, I’ve interviewed more than 200 world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show. The guests range from...

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Traction

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth - by Gabriel Weinberg

Most startups don’t fail because they can’t build a product.
Most startups fail because they can’t get traction.
Startup advice tends to be a lot of platitudes repackaged with new...

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Tribe of Mentors

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World - by Timothy Ferriss

Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, shares the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure book—a compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world's top performers. From iconic entrepreneurs to...

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Trust Me I'm Lying

Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator - by Ryan Holiday

Whenever you see a malicious online rumor costs a company millions, politically motivated fake news driving elections, a product or...

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Turning Pro

Turning Pro - by Steven Pressfield

The follow-up to his bestseller The War of Art, Turning Pro navigates the passage from the amateur life to a professional practice...

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The Ultimate Sales Machine

The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies - by Chet Holmes

Chet Holmes helps his clients blow away both the competition and their own expectations. And his advice starts with one simple concept...

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The Upstarts

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World - by Brad Stone

Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as...

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Vagabonding

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel - by Rolf Potts

Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life—from six weeks to four months to two years—to discover and experience the world on...

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The War of Art

The War of Art - by Steven Pressfield

Think of The War of Art as tough love... for yourself.
Since 2002, The War of Art has inspired people around the world to defeat "Resistance"; to recognize and knock down dream-blocking barriers and to silence the...

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The Warrior Ethos

The Warrior Ethos - by Steven Pressfield

WARS CHANGE, WARRIORS DON'T
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to...

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We Are the Nerds

We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory - by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin

Reddit hails itself as "the front page of the Internet." It's the third most-visited website in the United States--and yet, millions of Americans have no idea what it is.
We Are the Nerds is an engrossing look deep inside this...

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Without Their Permission

Without Their Permission: The Story of Reddit and a Blueprint for How to Change the World - by Alexis Ohanian

As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history. And when that power is...

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Words That Work

Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear - by Frank Luntz

In Words That Work, Luntz offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what we buy, who we...

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Zero to One

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - by Peter Thiel

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to...

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