The 28 best Business books

Creating a business that don't need you to run, can grow without you, and exit for a big multiple.

A painfully honest field guide to the startup world - from a founder who did it himself; growing a SaaS startup to $45M in yearly revenue. Hard-earned lessons on fundraising, building culture, and the emotional rollercoaster of being an entrepreneur.

The playbook on how to get leads and get "strangers to buy your stuff". The frameworks Alex Hormozi uses to get 20,000+ new leads per day for his businesses that generate $200M per year.

13 steps to riches (financial, emotional, and spiritual). How to transform thoughts into riches. Including visualization, affirmation, creating a Master Mind group, defining a goal, and planning.

The simple approach to achieve financial freedom in 3 steps: (1) spend less money than you make, (2) avoid debt like the plague, and (3) invest everything that’s left over into index funds.

How to bootstrap and sell a $150M company in 3.5 years. Practical tips - for example: screenshots of cold outreach templates to use, LinkedIn content plays, and learning from big startup failures. Finally, a hands-on guide on startup acquisition.

How to become a founder that works smarter, not harder. And build a profitable business while your at it. You need less than you think.

Ideally, you should never sell a startup - you should be bought. The Magic Box provides a proven framework to make it happen. Also, with a fast track approach if you are short on time.

How to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you. Here is a short summary of the perfect handbook for early stage startup founders.

This book teaches you how to craft a Grand Slam Offer in sales - an offer that is so different it will skip the explanations of why your product is different from everyone else's. Avoid being a commodity and competing on price. Enable your prospects to make value-driven purchases, charge premium prices and see vertical growth of your business.

Sales are about asking the right questions. Spin Selling offers a quantative approach to larger sales, divided into the four types of questions of SPIN - Situational, Problem, Implication, and Need-payoff questions. As deal size and complexity of the sale increase, the need for a consultative and benefit-driven approach becomes critical.

How to use a creative hacker mindset together with your product to grow beyond what’s possible in traditional marketing channels. 'A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising'.

How to use marketing to connect with potential customers in a more trustworthy way, and avoid common mistakes.

How to build a lean million-dollar SaaS, market against large competitors, and use your position as underdog as an unfair advantage.

How to ignite a network from zero, and use network effects in a product to scale rapidly.

Sell more by using transparency and honesty to build trust and credibility with clients. 'How Unexpected Honesty and Understanding the Buying Brain Can Transform Your Results'.

How to ignite a network from zero, and use network effects in a product to scale a startup rapidly.

Explains the framework successful companies have used to find traction and how you can do it to.

Understanding the WHY behind word of mouth and mastering virality to make your product spread.

Art is about being inspired by others and remixing their work to create something new, discovering your style. '10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative'.

Art is about being inspired by others and remixing their work to create something new, discovering your style. '10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative'.

The most essential activity in a company is positioning your product and business so customers 1. get it, 2. buy it and 3. love it. Failing at positioning means failing with marketing and sales, which means the entire business fails. Positioning your product against the right trends, competitors, and market will make your customer understand and buy your differentiated offering.

Rich Dad Poor Dad presents the rules and mentality of money that rich parents teach their kids, and help you avoid the common fallacies of how to think about making money. Neither a high income nor hard work is necessary to become rich. Rich people have money work for them, and spend with intelligence.

This book provides practical advice and learnings from the ideation phase to finding product-market fit. 14 different revenue models are presented, together with a path to get you from ideation to launch and revenue in just six months.

The transparent story of how one of the world’s most famous and profitable companies, Nike, was formed - told from the founder's perspective.

Everyone can become master closers with straight line selling. Follow the straight line methodology to achieve the shortest path to a closed deal. By using trivial psychology and methods such as object handling you can increase emotional and logical certainty of your prospects. Build trust in the 'three tens' - the product, the company and the seller - and you will close deals.