Editors Reads

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Entrepreneurship

21 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.

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Where to Start with Alex Hormozi: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Alex Hormozi — how to approach $100M Offers, his essential book on creating irresistible business offers. A complete reading guide to the entrepreneur-author.

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Where to Start with Ben Horowitz: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Ben Horowitz — how to approach The Hard Thing About Hard Things, his essential book on building and leading startups. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Chris Guillebeau: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Chris Guillebeau — how to approach The $100 Startup, his practical guide to building a profitable small business with minimal startup capital. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Eric Jorgenson: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Eric Jorgenson — how to approach The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, his curated distillation of Naval Ravikant's thinking on wealth, happiness, and judgment. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Eric Ries: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Eric Ries — how to approach The Lean Startup, the book that introduced Build-Measure-Learn and the minimum viable product to mainstream business thinking. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Gino Wickman: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Gino Wickman — how to approach Traction, his Entrepreneurial Operating System for small and mid-size businesses seeking clarity, accountability, and execution. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Grant Cardone: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Grant Cardone — whether to begin with The 10X Rule or Sell or Be Sold. A complete reading guide to the sales trainer and business author.

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Where to Start with Michael E. Gerber: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Michael E. Gerber — how to approach The E-Myth Revisited, his classic diagnosis of why most small businesses fail and how to build a business that works without depending entirely on its owner. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Mike Michalowicz: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Mike Michalowicz — how to approach Profit First, his cash management system for small businesses that reverses the accounting formula to force profitability. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Napoleon Hill: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Napoleon Hill — how to approach Think and Grow Rich, the 1937 classic that distilled the success principles of 500 self-made millionaires and invented modern self-help. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Peter Thiel: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Peter Thiel — how to approach Zero to One, his contrarian framework for building startups that create genuine value rather than copying what already works. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Phil Knight: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Phil Knight — how to approach Shoe Dog, his essential memoir about building Nike. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Rob Fitzpatrick: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Rob Fitzpatrick — how to approach The Mom Test, his practical guide to customer interviews that generate genuine insight rather than false validation. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Tim Ferriss: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Tim Ferriss — whether to begin with The 4-Hour Workweek or The 4-Hour Body. A complete reading guide to the entrepreneur and author.

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Best Books About Success: Essential Reading List

The best books about success — from Outliers and Grit to Shoe Dog and Zero to One. Non-fiction that actually changes how you think about achievement, skill, and building something.

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Best Founder and Startup Memoirs: Essential Business Books

The best founder and startup memoirs — from Shoe Dog and Steve Jobs to Zero to One and The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Essential business reading.

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Best Startup Books: Essential Reading for Founders and Builders

The best startup books — from Zero to One and The Lean Startup to Shoe Dog and The Hard Thing About Hard Things. What founders actually need to read to build something.

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The Lean Startup vs Zero to One: Which Startup Book Should You Read First?

Two books dominate every founder's reading list. The Lean Startup and Zero to One agree that most businesses fail — and disagree about everything else. Here is how their philosophies compare, where each goes wrong, and which to read first.

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Where to Start with MJ DeMarco: A Reading Guide

Where to start with MJ DeMarco — how to approach The Millionaire Fastlane, his contrarian argument that conventional frugality-plus-index-funds advice optimises for the wrong goal, and that scalable business ownership is the only realistic path to rapid wealth. A complete reading guide.

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Elon Musk's Favorite Books: The Reading List Behind His Ambition (2026)

The books that shaped Elon Musk's thinking on physics, business, AI, and space exploration — from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to Zero to One and beyond.

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