Very good book on how a lean startup should and can work.
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
Another way to look at how lean can be done.
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis
Interesting book about how far we have actually come; there are problems, but things are much better than the news make it out to be. It’s interesting to see that even though there are defintely problems in the world today, even people with less than ideal living conditions are much better off than comparable people just 20, 50 or 100 years ago. We do have a lot to go to make things better, but we have a really nice base to work from. The whole exponential growth of things like computing power, ability to product things cheaply and so on are helping us here.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
A step by step approach to starting up lean.
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter H. Diamandis
Another book from the guy at the Singularity University.
Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict the Future by Rohit Bhargava
Another interesting book about ideas and thinking different.
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
Really nice book about Steve Jobs that really shows a subjective view of the person. It leaves you feeling you know more about him rather than either hating his bad side or idealizing his good side only. There is of course a lot of repeated information in this book, but it’s written in a way a good friend would write the story instead of someone making Steve Jobs looks like a monster. There are obviously good and bad attributes of any person in this world, but this book tries to preserve some objective view.
Become an Idea Machine: Because Ideas Are the Currency of the 21st Century by Claudia Azula Altucher
Interesting way to get you bootstrapped with ideas. It makes a lot of sense and might be a good habbit to get into. When you have a lot of ideas and are able to assemble those ideas to help other people and youself, you’re able to give something that has worth. If you have an abundance of ideas then you can also generate an abundance of worth. Of couse some ideas have to be kept secret, but you have to let a lot of them go in order to become the one people look to for new ideas.
The Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth by James Altucher
Similar to Choose Yourself, but focusing a little more on how wealth is related.
Choose Yourself! by James Altucher
Very interesting discussion about Lean and starting something new. I like the way it encourages enterpreneural work and shows that you have to take control and power over it.