Top Five Startup Tips from Famous Entrepreneurs

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Most of the Entrepreneurs are working hard to develop their single room business into multinational company. Motivation would always help entrepreneur to come out from their failure. Here I have discussed the top startup tips from famous entrepreneurs.

Bill Gates :
  • Great Startup ideas come from everywhere. Don’t ever underestimate the ideas that you got.
  • Should be Master in two skills: Selling and Coding.
  • Run the company with minimum budget and reinvest the profit into the company’s operation.
  • Everyone should know the reason for work. Frame the good startup culture.
  • Don’t try to make the complete product just create the minimum viable product and launch. Good is good enough.

Steve Jobs :
  • Willingness to take more challenge and succeed in it.
  • Build the passionate team - if they fall in love with your product, everything else will take care of itself. 
  • Startups comprised of members who apply a diversity of thought to solving problems are more likely to devise creative and inherently unique solutions.
  • Work on a meaningful mission then billion dollar will follows.
  • Customer's cannot tell you what they need. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Mark Zuckerburg :
  • Young entrepreneur should get a mentor.Mentor will help the company avoid some of its intellectual property and employee compensation lawsuits.
  • Give some space and power to people.
  • Be smart and develop a solution for problem about which you are passionate.
  • Progress matters. Do the easier things fast that would have a small impact on the overall organization.
  • Keep your product Stupidly , Simple and Smarty.

Jeff Bazos :
  • Create a better product for your customers not colleagues or competitors.
  • Be aware to hire the right people for your startup.
  • Be stubborn and flexible. 
  • Don't Chase the quick buck.
  • Be simpleminded (this one is good for customers)

Richard Branson :
  • Give it a go. If you want to do something, have a go and do something.
  • You should have more self-confidence and believe what you do.
  • Find a like-minded people to run you business then you can free up more of your own time and think about moving your business forward.
  • Trust your inner instincts.
  •  Have a sound business model and stand out from your competitors.

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Top 10 Books That Every Startup Founder Should Read

Book reading is the best hobby for most of the people and it helps you to enrich your knowledge. Especially startup founder must read many books to improve their product and implement some strategies to sustain.

I hope the following books which help startup founders to move on their startup to next level.Let us see the top 10 books that every startup founder should read.(It's not in order) 

1. The Startup Owner's Manual by Steve Blank


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This book is the bible of the startup.The author had discussed the step by step instructions on building successful,scalable,profitable startup.Every startup founders must have this to enhance your startup.

2. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

HELP ENTREPRENEURS TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL START UP BUSINESS

This book deals with the new approach to run a startup in an innovative manner. It helps you to run a startup in different method of approach and bring your business idea into a successful and sustainable one. 

3. Entrepedia by Nandini Vaidyanathan 

HELP ENTREPRENEURS TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL START UP BUSINESS

It provides overall idea about the business. Here the author discussed about everything like how to get ideas, how to find our co-founders/partners, step by step approach for startup etc. This book will help you to get motivated on facing the problems.

4. Zero to One by Peter Thiel

HELP ENTREPRENEURS TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL START UP BUSINESS

This book helps you to craft your thinking into the different perspective and push your startup forward.It helps to fire you up and provides more enthusiasm.It was recommended by such entrepreneurs as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.

5. Hooked by Nir Eyal

HELP ENTREPRENEURS TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL START UP BUSINESS

This book discussed four step processes about the customer behavior. It helps you to teach like how to attract the early customers,how to get the users back etc.

6. Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull

HELP ENTREPRENEURS TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL START UP BUSINESS

This book describes how to build a creative culture within your startup or company.It helps you to get motivated and your team.The author Ed Catmull who was the Co-founder of Pixar animation studios explains about creativity in business.

7. Tested Advertising Methods by John Caples

HELP ENTREPRENEURS TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL START UP BUSINESS

It helps the founders to acquire customers by using some marketing techniques. By using this book you can able to create successful advertising features with limited revenues and it helps mostly for small business and non-profit organization.

8. Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross

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This book is the sales bible for startup founders and helps you to build a sales machine. It motivates your sales team and helps you to reach your financial goals in an efficient way.

9. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

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In this book the author gave advice to startup founders on how to build and run a startup. The author had shared some insights about the problems faced by the leaders/founders etc.

10. Stay Hungry Stay Foolish by Rashmi Bansal

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Book that traces the success-stories of twenty-five graduates from IIM-Ahmedabad. They decided against going in for regular corporate jobs that most of their classmates opted for. Instead, they chose to become entrepreneurs, choosing to carve out their careers, with their own hands.This book may boost your confidence and keep motivating every day.