Best Business Audiobooks For Entrepreneurs
1. The Lean Startup
How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (Unabridged)Unabridged, means that the audiobook contains all the original book content
Author: Eric Ries
Audio Length: 8 hours and 43 min.
Best Business Audiobooks’ Review: Everybody is now talking about the lean methodology. This method was used by Toyota to produce quality cars. By lean we mean rapid prototyping and continuous improvement. Eric Ries is one of the first to adapt this method to the startup world. Do you know that doing a repetitive task like preparing wedding invitations does not work better if you do all the steps in large batches? Eric explains why in his book. If you are an entrepreneur building a startup company, this book is a must read!
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2. Built to Sell
Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You (Unabridged)Unabridged, means that the audiobook contains all the original book content
Author: John Warrillow
Audio Length: 4 hours and 24 min.
Best Business Audiobooks’ Review: This book explains that every business should be built by keeping in mind that one day you will want to sell it. Even if you don’t think you will want to sell your business anytime soon, this book will show you that building your business thinking that one day you will need to sell, is actually the best way to built a viable business. If you follow the tips of this book, you will end up with a business you may want to sell or you may want to keep because it is structured in a way it will be attractive for both to you and potential buyers. This book illustrates the topic by telling the interesting story of the author who succeeded to transform his business to sell it for a few millions dollars. After listening to a few chapters, you will be hooked and will want to know what is happening to the main character. You will learn a lot too!
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3. The E-Myth Revisited
Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It (Unabridged)Unabridged, means that the audiobook contains all the original book content
Author: Michael E. Gerber
Audio Length: 8 hours and 5 min.
Best Business Audiobooks’ Review: In E-Myth Revisited, the author explains that the small business owners must wear 3 hats (The worker, the Entrepreneur and the Manager). He explains the importance of structuring our business like a franchise. We must work ON the business rather than only IN the business. He illustrates his point by telling the story of an owner of an apple pie bakery who stop enjoying baking pie until she decides to follow the advices of the author. This book is best suited for small business owner.
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4. Anything You Want
40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur (Unabridged)Unabridged, means that the audiobook contains all the original book content
Author: Derek Sivers
Audio Length: 1 hours and 31 min.
Best Business Audiobooks’s review: The author, the owner of CD Baby, a record distribution company, explained how he became successful by doing the opposite of what common sense was dictating. His main objective was to be happy and helping other in the industry. Interesting philosophical book about life and work.
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5. SPIN Selling
Situation Problem Implication Need-Payoff (Unabridged)Unabridged, means that the audiobook contains all the original book content
Author: Neil Rackham
Audio Length: 6 hours and 12 min.
Best Business Audiobooks’ Review: This is a must have if you are interested in sales! Traditionally, sales teams focus on the closing phase and closing technics. In this book, the author will explains that the preparation phase is even more important. It gives you the recipe to increase the likelihood of making a sale. Every business needs to sell to survive. Having listen to a sales book is a must have!
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6. The Dip
(Unabridged)Unabridged, means that the audiobook contains all the original book content
Author: Seth Godin
Audio Length: 1 hours and 33 min.
Best Business Audiobooks’ Review: This is a small audiobook about an important subject. Quitting! You need to quit and quit often to succeed. How many successful people we know still practice soccer, hockey, piano or ballet like they do when they were kids? (Except professional sport athletes and dancer of course). Quitting is a necessary thing. This will allow you to focus on the more important things for you. But when do you know it is time to persevere and when it is time to quit? This audiobook will teach you when!
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7. New Rules Of Business
Groundswell Expanded and Revised Edition; Content Rules; The Now Revolution (Unabridged)Unabridged, means that the audiobook contains all the original book content
Author: Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff, Ann Handley, C. C. Chapman, Jay Baer, Amber Naslund
Audio Length: 22 hours and 57 min.
Best Business Audiobooks’ Review : I like this audiobook because you get 3 audiobooks for the price of 1 (i.e 1 credit if you are an Audible member). These 3 audiobooks are good too! Personally, I preferred the first 2. i.e Groundswell and Content Rules. The first one describe the roles of social media for today’s business. The second one talks about the need to write good content that stands out. It give tips on how to reuse our content on different media (blog, video, tweeter, etc).
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8. The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
How to Build a Product or Service Into a World-Class Brand (Unabridged)Unabridged, means that the audiobook contains all the original book content
Author: Al and Laura Ries
Audio Length: 8 hours and 8 min.
Best Business Audiobooks’ Review: Although some of the examples in this audiobook are outdated, the laws of branding presented are immutable! I was looking for an audiobook on branding for a while and I was not disappointed with this one. If you are asking yourself the following questions then this audiobook is for you! 1) How should I name my company? 2) What are the common mistakes of branding? 3) Should I launch a new product or service using another brand or should I keep my current brand? 4) What is line extension and what it can do for my brand? 5) What are the differences with an Internet brand?
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9. Outliers
The Story of Success (Unabridged)Unabridged, means that the audiobook contains all the original book content
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Audio Length: 7 hours and 22 min.
Best Business Audiobooks’ Review: Did you know that if you are not born in January, February or March, you drastically reduce your chances of becoming a professional hockey league player? Do you know that if 1955 (Bill Gates’s birthday year) was the ideal year to become a computer genius? Do you know that what made the success of the Beatles? This audiobook will give you the answers. People are successful not because of they work hard but because of where they come from. The key to become an expert in any field and increasing your chance of becoming successful? 90 000 hours of practice!
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From Amazon/AudibleFrom eBooks.com
10. Groundswell – Expanded and Revised Edition
Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies (Unabridged)Unabridged, means that the audiobook contains all the original book content
Author: Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff
Audio Length: 9 hours and 51 min.
Best Business Audiobooks’ Review: Everything you need to know about using the social media to market your business. You can purchase this audiobook alone or as part of a combo. Check New Rules of Business to buy this audiobook package with 2 other audiobooks.
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11. Permission Marketing
Author: Seth Godin
Audio Length: 2 hours and 1 min.
Best Business Audiobooks’ Review: Traditional mass marketing don’t work as well anymore. Marketers used to broadcast an ad on TV or radio and expect immediate success. Now marketing is a lot more targeted. You need to first turn a stranger into a friend before you can market to them efficiently. If you are marketing products or services, this audiobook is for you!
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12. Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t (Unabridged)Unabridged, means that the audiobook contains all the original book content
Author: Jim Collins
Audio Length: 10 hours and 1 min.
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13. Do More Faster
TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your startup (Unabridged)Unabridged, means that the audiobook contains all the original book content
Author: Brad Feld and David Cohen
Audio Length: 7 hours and 53 min.
Best Business Audiobooks’ Review: This audiobook is loaded with tones startups success examples. You will understand why some of these startups succeeded. For example, did you know how the inventors of Guitars Heroes become successful? These examples can give you a big head start for your own business. The authors are co-founders of Techstarts a investing company helping startups to grow during a intensive mentoring and coaching program.
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14. Getting Things Done
(Unabridged)Unabridged, means that the audiobook contains all the original book content
Author: David Allen
Audio Length: 7 hours and 8 min.
Best Business Audiobooks’ Review: David Allen is the master of getthing things done. With his simple yet effective method to get organised, you will be surprise how much you can accomplish.
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