Best Books on Entrepreneurial Startups, Platform Businesses, and the Sharing Economy
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Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million
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Cliff Lerner
4.16 avg rating — 923 ratings 2. 
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy―and How to Make Them Work for You 4.04 avg rating — 4,597 ratings
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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by:
Eric Ries
4.11 avg rating — 356,018 ratings 4. 
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
by:
Peter Thiel
4.15 avg rating — 381,774 ratings 
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by:
Kevin Kelly
3.89 avg rating — 11,884 ratings 8. 
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
by:
Chris Guillebeau
3.89 avg rating — 69,648 ratings 9. 
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
by:
Ben Horowitz
4.21 avg rating — 105,266 ratings 10. 
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
by:
W. Chan Kim
4.01 avg rating — 84,947 ratings 11. 
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary National Bestseller That Changed The Way We Do Business 4.04 avg rating — 58,900 ratings
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Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)
by:
Ash Maurya
4.09 avg rating — 20,358 ratings 14. 
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How to F*ck Up Your Startup: The Science Behind Why 90% of Companies Fail--and How You Can Avoid It
by:
Kim Hvidkjaer
4.63 avg rating — 427 ratings 14. 
Code Red: Cybersecurity, Hackers, and the Battles of Tomorrow
by:
Mohammed Thabet
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 17. 
Connectopia: The Thrilling World of Networks
by:
Mohammed Thabet
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 18. 
The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models
by:
Barry Libert
3.81 avg rating — 101 ratings 19. 
Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
by:
Al Ramadan
3.86 avg rating — 2,292 ratings 20. 
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
by:
Andrew McAfee
4.04 avg rating — 2,871 ratings 21. 
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives 3.74 avg rating — 4,067 ratings
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Platform Strategy: How to Unlock the Power of Communities and Networks to Grow Your Business 4.29 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Innovator's Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization
by:
Nathan Furr
4.12 avg rating — 693 ratings 
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Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age
by:
Greg Satell
3.88 avg rating — 236 ratings 
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies 3.91 avg rating — 12,074 ratings
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Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape
by:
Henry Chesbrough
3.81 avg rating — 126 ratings 
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Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms
by:
David S. Evans
3.84 avg rating — 837 ratings 32. 
Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do
by:
Carl J. Schramm
3.97 avg rating — 195 ratings 34. 
Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours
by:
Salim Ismail
4.07 avg rating — 4,808 ratings 35. 
The Innovator's Solut!on: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth 4.06 avg rating — 13,716 ratings
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Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too
by:
Gary Vaynerchuk
3.96 avg rating — 11,336 ratings 
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Platform Scale: How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment 4.21 avg rating — 516 ratings
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The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-based Capitalism 3.66 avg rating — 484 ratings
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Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology
by:
Henry Chesbrough
3.86 avg rating — 299 ratings 45. 
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
by:
Steven Johnson
3.99 avg rating — 15,388 ratings 47. 
The Harvard Business Review Manager's Handbook: The 17 Skills Leaders Need to Stand Out (HBR Handbooks) 4.12 avg rating — 883 ratings
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Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook: Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next Level (HBR Handbooks)
by:
Ron Ashkenas
3.94 avg rating — 228 ratings 50. 
Outside Innovation: How Your Customers Will Co-Design Your Company's Future 3.60 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
by:
Shane Snow
3.88 avg rating — 6,551 ratings 
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The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
by:
Astra Taylor
4.04 avg rating — 606 ratings 
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business 4.04 avg rating — 58,900 ratings
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The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
by:
Eric Schmidt
3.33 avg rating — 2,583 ratings 60. 
The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business
by:
Phil Simon
3.73 avg rating — 264 ratings 
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The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
by:
Jeffrey H. Dyer
3.97 avg rating — 4,597 ratings 62. 
Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy (The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) 3.90 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth
by:
Ash Maurya
4.30 avg rating — 524 ratings 65. 
Lean Startups for Social Change: The Revolutionary Path to Big Impact
by:
Michel Gelobter
3.67 avg rating — 72 ratings 66. 
The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations
by:
Robert L. Cross
3.93 avg rating — 148 ratings 67. 
Living Networks: Leading Your Company, Customers, and Partners in the Hyper-Connected Economy
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Ross Dawson
3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 68. 
The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care 4.21 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change
by:
Beth Kanter
3.82 avg rating — 478 ratings 70. 
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
by:
Yochai Benkler
3.96 avg rating — 1,695 ratings 71. 
Connecting to Change the World: Harnessing the Power of Networks for Social Impact
by:
Peter Plastrik
3.97 avg rating — 66 ratings 72. 
Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks
by:
Mark Buchanan
3.81 avg rating — 521 ratings 
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The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
by:
Scott Galloway
3.83 avg rating — 18,678 ratings 76. 
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by:
Jeremy Rifkin
3.92 avg rating — 2,056 ratings 77. 
The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism
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Jeremy Rifkin
3.88 avg rating — 360 ratings 78. 
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
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Jeremy Rifkin
3.87 avg rating — 1,503 ratings 79. 
Business Model You: A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your Career
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Tim Clark
4.01 avg rating — 4,400 ratings 80. 
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (The Strategyzer series) 4.21 avg rating — 58,264 ratings
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The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
by:
Brad Stone
4.04 avg rating — 7,356 ratings 82. 
From Impossible To Inevitable: How Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue
by:
Aaron Ross
4.19 avg rating — 1,199 ratings 83. 
Platform Ecosystems: Aligning Architecture, Governance, and Strategy
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Amrit Tiwana
4.31 avg rating — 78 ratings 84. 
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World (Exponential Technology Series) 3.97 avg rating — 9,947 ratings
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The Mobile Mind Shift: Engineer Your Business To Win in the Mobile Moment
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Ted Schadler
3.86 avg rating — 179 ratings 87. 
Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price 4.16 avg rating — 1,223 ratings
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Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
by:
Ryan Holiday
3.77 avg rating — 11,013 ratings 89. 
Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
by:
Brad Feld
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,859 ratings 
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Content Inc.: How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful Businesses
by:
Joe Pulizzi
3.96 avg rating — 1,366 ratings 94. 
Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone.
by:
Mitch Joel
3.83 avg rating — 1,332 ratings 95. 
The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social
by:
Jay Baer
3.93 avg rating — 167 ratings 96. 
The Business of Sharing: Making it in the New Sharing Economy
by:
Alex Stephany
4.07 avg rating — 42 ratings 97. 
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The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
by:
Dan Olsen
4.27 avg rating — 3,501 ratings 99. 
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Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It
by:
Tien Tzuo
3.94 avg rating — 1,934 ratings