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Startup Books for Developers

Max Ong Zong Bao on April 01, 2020

Introduction My take for developers who are looking to jump into startups is they should always be informed to identify the business asp...
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Kevin Mack

Really great list max, I would add a couple more. Mindset by Carol Dweck, Essentialism by Greg McKeown,ClockWork by Mike Michalowicz, and Grit by Angela Duckworth

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Thanks I really appreciate that you like it. Grit by Angela Duckworth is a good read.

 
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Max Ong Zong Bao • Edited

Yup it's good I might add that "Can't hurt me" by David Goggins and "Obstacle is the Way" by Ryan Holiday is really both excellent as well.

Especially you must get the audiobook of the "Can't Hurt Me" as it is done as a podcast format style with David Goggins with the narrator after each chapter.

Which has ton of awesome extra content and I use it to remind me when I'm really demoralised in giving up.

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Ramsey Rama

There is also this great book that has helped me this year, to start my tech startup and manage to employ 5 employees so far,
It's called :
"How to Build a Billion Dollar App: Discover the Secrets of the Most Successful Entrepreneurs of Our Time" by George Berkowski...
Really great books if anyone would love to read it l can send it to them

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Nice, I saw it before but didn't read it cause I had a huge backlog of books I'm reading

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Shreyash

Super! This is what I was looking for.

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Thanks I hope it's useful for you :)

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Travis Fantina • Edited

Anthesis to the Peter Thiel's of the world, I'd recommend anything by Basecamp, esp Getting Real or Rework.

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Funny thing I never came across the word called "Anthesis" I had to search for the definition of it. Nice I'll look at it and when i had the time to read it.

I'm reading "The "
Mom Test", "Crossing the Chasm", "Mediation" and another monthly book I need to read for a group I'm in.

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Per Starke

Good list, some of those defo will come on my to-read list as well, thanks for sharing!

 
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Max Ong Zong Bao

Yup it is awesome I thought of just getting the audiobook version as the free book for my audible.

As I wanted to own it and listen to it in my phone from time to time.