4 Books That Will Bring Entrepreneur Instinct In You

Being an entrepreneur has become a mainstream lively hood option now. Earlier what used to be the practices of few have been vocalized, magnified and sent into the masses with great ripple effects by the always available media channels. As the latest boom of tech entrepreneurs and their startups reach this peak, a lot many have taken inspiration from it and have jumped into the world of entrepreneurship.

Now if you are somebody who is starting up or looking to create your own startup, you might find yourself struggling alone, burning that midnight oil for week and weeks, for starting a company isn't as glamorous as the media shows it to be. Somedays you might find motivation oozing out from your inner self, while just the next day you might hit your low - for those days here is a list of 6 books that will wake your mind up and motivate you to get going the very next minute.

1) Bold

My personal best, Bold is both a manifesto and a manual. It is today’s exponential entrepreneur’s go-to resource on the use of emerging technologies, thinking at scale, and the awesome power of crowd-powered tools. This gem of a book from Steven Kotlier and Peter H Diamandis will let you introspect your model and show you the direction to go. You will be amazed to see the potential that the future holds and how can you be a part of the revolution that is bringing the future closer to us, day by day.

If you read it once, you surely will want to read it again. It will make you learn from the mistakes of other companies, will tell you how to keep your startup lean, be resilient and be a force.

2) Zero to One

By Peter Theil, theman who has worked and invested in many multi billion dollar firms, this books wraps up his whole knowledge about startups in a shell and presents to the readers in a very simple visual way. This book is a compilation of notes made by one of Peter Theil student while he was attending his lectures on startups. This book will also take your through short stories of failures faced by extremely successful people and how they overcame it. Read to it if you are looking out for directions and measuring the options for your own startup.

3) Where Good Ideas Come From

Are great ideas a manifestation of a single mind trying to find a solution to a single problem accompanied by a Eureka! moment or does it come to people who are highly connected, highly dynamic and have a diverse circle of people?

Steven Johnson will take us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web and will give you insights on how to become more productive, how to create ground breaking solutions and come up with world changing ideas.

4) The Lean Startup

This book by Eric Ries will guide you on how to keep your startup ready for any disruption or changes in the market. Ries defines a startup as “an organization designed to create something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.” It talks about how creating a startup is a very continuous and dynamic process, what all practices should the founder adopt to make it successful and how can they accelerate the growth of a startup beyond the honeymoon period.