What books have you found to be helpful in starting your business?

[chendy]

[domp]

There was a good thread about this a couple weeks ago. People recommended a lot of great books.

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=5572

[chendy → domp]

Thanks for linking to that thread. i must have missed it before. There are definitely some interesting looking books in that list.

[chendy]

I'm trying to get some recommendations for books that might be helpful for a web startup. Personally, I have really found "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell and "Getting Real" by the 37signals folks to be really helpful. I've read lots of great articles via news.YC, and I'm hoping you can all recommend some good offline reading as well.

[Mistone]

The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber - its all about vision, systems, and building a business that can scale.

Small Giants by Bo Burlingham

[yaacovtp]

A stack of composition notebooks from back in grade school.

[chendy → yaacovtp]

Is your business an online version of "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?"

[dawie]

The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki is a good one

[zaidf]

Think and Grow Rich - by Napoleon Hill

-Zaid