10 Reasons why startups and business owners should read “Rework”

1. "If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I'm investing in REWORK every time.  This is a must read for every entrepreneur."
--Mark Cuban, co-founder of HDNet and Broadcast.com and owner of the Dallas Mavericks

2. The book makes a great case against all the elements of doing business (planning, raising capital, meeting, communication, workplace, organizing, etc.)

3. The book offer some good idea when it comes to marketing and hiring and more importantly it offers you a chance to break out of business traditions that has been built over decades

4. Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the competition.

5. "Inspirational...REWORK is a minimalist manifesto that's profoundly practical. In a world where we all keep getting asked to do more with less, the authors show us how to do less and create more."

--Scott Rosenberg, Co-Founder of Salon.com

6. This book is a great read and has concepts that will stick for lifetime. The book does not promise to be revolutionary and isn't filled with magic bullets. Instead, what you get is crisp advice in bits and pieces that you can read anywhere, anytime!

7. I think you either love or hate the format of the book, but I personally thought it was great. This is such a breath of fresh air, "here's a concept. Here's why it works. Here's a quick analogy. Done." Awesome.

8. There is no better source of knowledge than that which is proven in practice. This book and its authoring company refreshingly show what happens when common-sense, confidence, and diligence rule a business. No tricks, perceptive deception, are advocated. It's a great reminder that honesty and self-accountability can take us much further.

9. “The wisdom in these pages is edgy yet simple, straightforward, and proven. Read this book multiple times to help give you the courage you need to get out there and make something great.”

-Tony Hsieh, CEO, of Zappos.com

10. You can read it in a two-hour flight. It's a quick read.
Really good and insightful. It's broken into chapters, each chapter has many tips. Each tip has a one page sketch for the tip which makes it super fun to read.

5 Hot New Books for Startups

Title: Sprint: How to solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days
USP: Sprint is a unique five-day process Created by three partners at Google Ventures and aimed at helping businesses to deliver the best results in the least time Initially tried and tested on everything from Google Search to Chrome to Google X, the sprint is a 'greatest hits' of business strategy, innovation, behaviour science and design thinking - packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use

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The Startup Playbook: Secrets of the Fastest-Growing Startups from Their Founding Entrepreneurs

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. This is a serious competition, you need solid advice to cut through this level of competition.

Face-to-face interviews with 40 founders give readers key insights into what it took to build PayPal, LinkedIn, AOL, TED, Flickr, and many others into household names. Special sections include topics ranging from how to select the right idea to pursue to finding funding and overcoming inevitable obstacles.

Author David Kidder, a respected serial entrepreneur in his own right, talked to the best minds in the business. From those conversations he picked out the golden nuggets that make or break one's entrepreneurial journey.

Reading The Startup Playbook is like being mentored by some of the smartest entrepreneurs around. You can think of it as a companion volume to "Founders at Work", getting to hear the actual stories behind the companies, supplemented by more concrete "do this, not that" advice. There's so much great content in here, I think it's better to pace yourself, only read one story a day.

A collection of best practices from successful startups. A how to guide for entrepreneurs or business people that want to think like an entrepreneur. Very entertaining.