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The Founder Bookshelf

Books founders recommend to each other. Browse by topic or by where you are as you grow, mark what you've read, and add what's next.

2 books on Startups & Entrepreneurship for timeless

  1. Stay Hungry Stay Foolish cover

    Rashmi Bansal

    Twenty-five IIM graduates who chose the hard road of building businesses.

    Stay Hungry Stay Foolish tells the stories of 25 MBAs from IIM Ahmedabad who left secure, lucrative jobs to become entrepreneurs. Through their journeys, the book...

    1 founder recommends Get the book ↗
  2. Connect the Dots cover

    Rashmi Bansal

    Twenty Indian entrepreneurs who built ventures without an MBA.

    Connect the Dots profiles 20 entrepreneurs who succeeded without an MBA, organized into three sections the author calls Jugaad, Junoon, and Zubaan. The book argues...

Questions, answered

What books do founders recommend?

Founders on the eChai network recommend titles like Stay Hungry Stay Foolish and Connect the Dots. The bookshelf ranks books by how many founders have read them.

Where can I find a startup reading list?

The eChai founder bookshelf is a curated, founder-recommended reading list you can browse by topic (fundraising, product, hiring) and by stage.

How is the bookshelf ordered?

By recommendation: the more founders mark a book read, the higher it ranks. You can also sort by newest or A to Z.

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