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Books on entrepreneurship and how to start your own business. Rise and Grind!!!

Updated September 15, 2025
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Good to great : why some companies make the leap--and others don't
Collins, James C.
Paper Book
The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born...
Hard things : entreprendre dans l'incertitude
Paper Book
The Founder's Dilemmas : Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
Wasserman, Noam
Ebook
A guide to the early decisions that can make or break startup ventures Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors...
https://www.score.org/
From planning to execution, get resources or real-time assistance for every stage of your business. SCORE has a library of useful documents and online courses, as well as experienced mentors to help
https://www.sba.gov/

Business resources and funding options for small business owners.

Building social business : the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs
Yunus, Muhammad
Paper Book
Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a visionary new dimension for capitalism which he calls "social business." By harnessing the energy of profit-making to the objective of fulfilling human...
The seven habits of highly effective people : restoring the character ethic
Covey, Stephen R.
Paper Book
In "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity...
Innovation and entrepreneurship : practice and principles
Drucker, Peter F.
Paper Book
America's foremost expert on management presents the first and only book to present entrepreneurship as a systematic discipline and to explain its great challenges and opportunities.
Start Your Own Business : The Only Start-Up Book You'll Ever Need
Lesonsky, Rieva
Paper Book
Whether you're just thinking about starting a business, have taken the first steps, or already own your own business, this comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide can help ensure your success. Written in a friendly, down-to-earth style, Start Your Own Business walks you through every step of the...
Disciplined Entrepreneurship Expanded and Updated : 24 Steps to a Successful Startup
Aulet, Bill.
Ebook
An expanded & updated version of the award winning & bestselling one-stop entrepreneurial book used by hundreds of schools globally that has helped create or make better hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs Disciplined Entrepreneurship Expanded and Updated starts by...
https://www.crunchbase.com/

Crowd-sourced data, but an excellent site for researching start-ups and other hard-to-find, private companies.

https://www.ycombinator.com/library
YC\'s library of startup advice: essays and videos that teach you how to start a company.
Principle-centered leadership
Covey, Stephen R.
Ebook
From the author that brought you the New York Times bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People comes a foundational guide to leadership. How do individuals and organizations survive and thrive amid tremendous change? Why are efforts to improve...
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/
Now, next, and beyond: Tracking need-to-know trends at the intersection of business and technology
https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions/bizfilings/tools-and-resources
BizFilings Business Owner\'s Toolkit: advice & tools about incorporation, types of businesses, compliance, taxes, running a business & much more.
https://apps.bea.gov/regional/bearfacts/

The Bureau for Economic Analysis has all the data!

https://www.bls.gov/cex/

Consumer Expenditure Surveys provides reports on consumer price and spending & consumer expenditure survey that provides information on buying habits.

Mission, Inc : a practitioner's guide to social enterprise
Lynch, Kevin
Ebook
A new breed of business is springing up across the land: social enterprises, whose primary purpose is to support the common good. Organized as for-profits, nonprofits, and everything in between, they see businesses as the means to a better world for all. In this...
The essential Drucker : selections from the management works of Peter F. Drucker
Drucker, Peter F.
Paper Book
In one volume a selection of the essential writings from Peter F. Drucker's sixty years of work on management. The first selection of Drucker's management work from The Practice of Management (1954) to Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999), this book offers, in Drucker's words,...
How to write a business plan
McKeever, Mike P.
Paper Book
Step-by-step advice on preparing a business plan You need a sound business plan to start a business or raise money to expand an existing one. For over 30 years, How to Write a Business Plan has helped fledgling entrepreneurs--from small service businesses and retailers to...
Built to last : successful habits of visionary companies
Collins, James C.
Paper Book
"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor even is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial....

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