The 10 Best business start-up books
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Your support makes all the difference.1. Business Model You by Tim Clark
£18.99, wiley.com
About reinventing your whole professional life by creating, a simple, one-page blueprint for a business.
2. How to Make A Million Before Lunch By Rachel Bridge
£8.15, virginbooks.com
Former business journalist distils her knowledge into 20 top tips for getting rich quick.
3. Start Your Business in 7 Days by James Caan
£12.99, penguin.co.uk
Dragon Caan focuses less on the mechanics of start-ups than on asking: "Will my business work?"
4. Start Your Own eBay or Amazon by Kim Benjamin
£14.99, crimsonpublishing.co.uk
Step-by-step guide to picking the right market, customers, platform, and, crucially, how to get noticed.
5. Make it Happen: The Prince's Trust Guide
£14.99, wiley.com
Good, practical advice on ideas, funding, business plans and looking after your finances.
6.The Food Truck Handbook by David Weber
£13.99, wiley.com
Everything from creating a concept to gaining a loyal following, via an chapter on maintaining equipment.
7. Entrepreneurship by Frederick G. Crane
£59.99, sagepub.com
An entrepreneurship encyclopedia, it presupposes the reader is familiar with business concepts.
8. The Start-up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
£7.79, randomhouse.co.uk
Co-written by LinkedIn-founder Hoffman, it has great tips on becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg.
9. Zoom! by Ian Sanders and David Sloly
£12.99, pearson-books.com
Speedy set-ups can lead to speedy money making, that's the message behind Sanders and Sloly's book.
10. Lean Startup by Eric Ries
£14.99, penguin.co.uk
A rather intellectual read, praised for its central message: that new successes comes through agility in the marketplace.
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