Thread by @PierreDeWulf

There are countless startup book lists on the internet 🌐

I wanted to know what were the most recommended startup books ever 🏆

So I've compiled more than 4000 recommendations from 208 lists and came up with with this top 25 most recommended startup books of all-time📕

THREAD

In short, I've compiled articles from Google search results for queries like "Best startups books" and many of its variations

I scraped all pages using @ScrapingBee, and, with custom rules for every page, extracted 📕 titles

Then deduplication + normalization + manual cleaning

A link to the detailed methodology will be put at the end of this thread.

% is the % of the time this book was recommended out of 208 lists.

So if % is 20%, one out of five lists about startups book have talked about this book.

Ok, let's begin, here the top 25 🤓

25: Delivering Happiness by @Zappos_Hsieh 7.6%
24: Shoe Dog by Phil Knight 7.6%
23: Purple Cow by @ThisIsSethsBlog 8.1%
22: Outliers by @Gladwell 8.1%
21: Power of Habits by @cduhigg 8.1%
20: Founders at Work by @jesslivingston 8.6%

20: Founders at Work by @jesslivingston 8.6%
19: Hooked by @nireyal 8.6%
18: The Innovator's Dilemma by @claychristensen 9.1%
17: Art of the Start by @GuyKawasaki 9.1%
16: Tools for Titans by @tferriss 9.1%
15: Influence by @RobertCialdini 9.6%
14:Traction by @yegg @jwmares 9.6%

13: Rich Dad Poor Dad by @theRealKiyosaki 12.9%
12: 7 habits of ... by @StephenRCovey 12.9%
11: Rework by @dhh & @jasonfried 14%
10: Start with why by @simonsinek 14.4%
9: Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill 14.4%
8: Good to Great by @level5leaders 14.9%

7: The E-Myth revisited by @MichaelEGerber 15.3%
6: The 4-hour workweek by @tferriss 15.8%
5: How to win friend ... by Dale Carnegie 22.5%
4: The $100 Startup by @chrisguillebeau 24%
3: The hard thing about hard things by @bhorowitz 24.5%

2: Zero to One by @peterthiel 29.3%
1: The Lean Startup by @ericries 44.7%

Fun facts:
- Steve Jobs by @WalterIsaacson was the first biography #30
- @tferriss is the only author appearing twice
- The holy bible was cited once

Details and methodology here:
daolf.com/posts/best-sta…