- "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries
- "Zero to One" by Peter Thiel
- "The Startup Owner's Manual" by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf
- "Business Model Generation" by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
- "The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton Christensen
- "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz
- "Venture Deals" by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
- "Founders at Work" by Jessica Livingston
- "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey Moore
- "The Art of Possibility" by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
- "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey
- "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill
- "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini
- "The E-Myth Revisited" by Michael Gerber
- "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg
- "Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too" by Gary Vaynerchuk
- "Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t" by Verne Harnish
- "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie