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This is what we are reading, and... IMNSHO... I think you should read these books too.

The FIRST book that I think you need to read is "Never Split the Difference" by Chris Voss. I'm 95% confident that, on average, you'll thank me.

-Todd

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

by Chris Voss

Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams

By Evan Baehr

First Pitch: Winning Money, Mentors, and More for Your Startup

Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success

Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

by Steve Blank

The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

By Steve Blank

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (Strategyzer)

Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (The Strategyzer Series)

Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation (Strategyzer)

The Invincible Company: How to Constantly Reinvent Your Organization with Inspiration From the World's Best Business Models (Strategyzer)

High-Impact Tools for Teams: 5 Tools to Align Team Members, Build Trust, and Get Results Fast (Strategyzer)

Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business

by Sunil Gupta

The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

The Customer-Funded Business: Start, Finance, or Grow Your Company with Your Customers' Cash

The Pitch Deck Book: How To Present Your Business And Secure Investors

Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

Lucky Or Smart?: Fifty Pages for the First-Time Entrepreneur

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

by Peter Thiel

Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World

by Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani

The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know

Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company's Critical Functions and Teams (Techstars)

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

It's Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

MOVE: The 4-question Go-to-Market Framework

The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI

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I know you want these!

The Innovator's Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good Ideas (The MIT Press)

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs (Management on the Cutting Edge)

Rework: Change The Way You Work Forever

Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)

Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma, Second Edition

Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

Growth: A History and a Reckoning

A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You

Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See

The Day Before Tomorrow: How to Make Today Count!

Let's Get Digital!: A Transformation Guide to the Future of Business and Entrepreneurship

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Breakthrough Growth Strategy in Volatile Times

Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on Your Terms

The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business

slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story

Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)

Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job

The Experimentation Machine: Finding Product-Market Fit in the Age of AI

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