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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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The startup playbook : secrets of the fastest-growing startups from their founding entrepreneurs
Kidder, David S.
Paper Book
According to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, more than 565,000 new businesses were created in 2010 in the United States alone--each one of them hoping to strike gold. The Startup Playbook will help them succeed. Going insider to insider with unprecedented access, New York...
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...
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.

Campus CEO : the student entrepreneur's guide to launching a multimillion-dollar business
Pinkett, Randal
Paper Book
This is a guide for the student entrepreneur and covers how to develop a successful business plan, secure funding, maintain a healthy balance between work and school, and manage a successful endeavor.
Principle-centered leadership
Covey, Stephen R.
Paper Book
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...
The seven habits of highly effective people : restoring the character ethic
Covey, Stephen R.
Paper Book
A revolutionary guidebook to achieving peace of mind by seeking the roots of human behavior in character and by learning principles rather than just practices. Covey's method is a pathway to wisdom and power.
The essential Drucker : the best of sixty years of Peter Drucker's essential writings on management
Drucker, Peter F.
Paper Book
Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker has been analyzing economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of...
How to write a business plan
McKeever, Mike P.
Paper Book
Write a business plan that potential investors will embrace! If you're thinking of starting a business or raising money to expand an existing one, you need a plan. Running a successful business requires a great deal of forethought, so write a business plan and secure your venture's...
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.
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.


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