10 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

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These are the 10 books that I believe every entrepreneur should read:

1. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law – LLC vs C-corp vs S-Corp? Founder’s vesting? Liquidation Preferences? Equity vs Debt financing? This book will educate you enough to be able to answer these and many other important questions.
2. Bootstrapping Your Business – From the founder of RightNow.  The amazing story of how a geographically-challenged (Montana) entrepreneur built a world class business.
3. Purple Cow – Dead simple premise, the key to marketing is to build something remarkable.
4. The Art of the Start – The Art of Pitching, Marketing and Funding your Startup.
5. The Innovator’s Dilemma – If your startup beats all the odds and becomes hugely successful prepare yourself for the innovator’s dilemma, cannibalize your product before someone else does.
6. The E-Myth Revisited - How-to create a business not a job.
7. Permission Marketing - The greatest marketing asset your startup can build is the permission to  market to your customers and prospects.
8. Growing a Business – Sincere advice for creating a company culture that your team and customers will love.
9. The Cluetrain Manifesto – Successful marketing is a conversation.
10. Bottom-up Marketing - Pure bottoms-up execution. Marketing tactics to grow your business.

And please don’t build your website without reading these books:

1. Always Be Testing
2. Designing for the Social Web
3. Web Analytics: An Hour a Day
4. Don’t Make Me Think
5. Call to Action

Do you have any favorites that I’ve missed?