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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 Fundraising & VC for growth & scaling

  1. Tony Fadell

    Hard-won advice on building products, teams, and a career worth having.

    Build is part memoir, part mentorship manual from one of the people behind the iPod, iPhone, and Nest. Fadell shares blunt advice on careers, product design, startups,...

  2. The $100 Startup cover

    Chris Guillebeau

    Turn a passion and a tiny budget into a real income business.

    Drawing on case studies of 1,500 people who built businesses on small investments, often a hundred dollars or less, the book distills how ordinary people created...

Questions, answered

What books do founders recommend?

Founders on the eChai network recommend titles like Build and The $100 Startup. 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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