The Top 10 Books of 2012 for Entrepreneurs

The selection includes books with advice for startups, tips for aspiring entrepreneurs, assessments of Indian innovation, case studies of app developers and entrepreneurs, and even guidelines for creating startup communities in a city.

We look forward to your comments on these books, and to suggestions for books to review for 2013. Our research team and all our colleagues at YourStory.in wish our readers and partners a happy holiday season and a terrific year ahead in 2013 – may a million successful startups bloom in India!

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

by Eric Ries

2) Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City

by Brad Feld

3) Appillionaires: Secrets from Developers who Struck it Rich on the App Store

by Chris Stevens

4) The Entrepreneurial Instinct: How Everyone has the Innate Ability to Start a Successful Small Business

by Monica Mehta

5) India Inside: The Emerging Innovation Challenge to the West

by Nirmalya Kumar and Phanish Puranam

6) The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

by Chris Guillebeau

7) The Game Changers: 20 Extraordinary Success Stories of Entrepreneurs

by Yuvnesh Modi, Rahul Kumar, Alok Kothari

8 ) Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries

by Peter Sims

9) Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal and Flexible Approach to Innovation for the 21st Century

by Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu and Simone Ahuja

10) Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World

by Tony Wagner

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