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

Updated September 12, 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...
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
Ineffective people try to manage their time around priorities, says Steven R. Covey, whereas effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships according to principles-natural laws and governing values that are universally valid. Leadership is the ability to apply these principles to...
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
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.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.sba.gov/

Business resources and funding options for small business owners.

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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