Going into business isn’t an easy journey and most times you need the experience and lessons from other business owners, CEOs and Investors both orally the words written in books to scale through certain hurdles and understand the business space. As a startup entrepreneur, guidance is one essential thing as starting the journey can be very boring if starting alone but with books as companions you can understand from other people’s perspective.


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When starting a business, there are issues that involves finances, operation, staffs, customers, partners and other things that needs to be solved and so as not to make mistakes reading books can just be your simple guides.

I will be sharing a few books I have in my library that I believe will be important to any business startup, you can join me as I go on with them;

### Leaders Eat last
Written by Simon Sinek which talks about effective leadership in business. This book talks about having a team and becoming a great leader. The book explains why a leader should value their team members and make them valuable. 


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### The E-Myth Revisited
This book is written by Michael E. Gerber who explains the right approach to doing business instead of focusing on the wrong thing. It doesn’t matter how long an entrepreneur works but rather create a business that follows a system. The book also talks about Franchising.


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### Atomic Habit
A book written by James Clear explains how to do daily routines and habits which often affects businesses. The book deals with the mental behavior of a person so as to get a physical result at the end of the day. Atomic habit helps entrepreneur organize time properly as they are starting out in their business.


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### Setting the table
If you are an entrepreneur planning to start a hospitality business, either a hotel, restaurant, bar or a spa, then this book is for you. The book emphasizes on customer relationship and services in the hospitality business so people never stop coming, taking care of the employees as well as taking care of the business.

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### The Art of the Start
This is one book I like by the author Guy Kawasaki. The author pours his experience into the book and creates simple guides into starting a business. In other not to make a mistake as the business starts to gain ground Guy Kawasaki explains how to raise money, how to hire the right people, as well as creating a brand, and working with a board and creating a company.

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### The Tipping point
Written by Malcolm Gladwell explains growth and how businesses will need to reach the tipping point which is a moment of breakthrough. The business book talks about how certain ideas become popular and very acceptable while others do not as they die off before they reach stardom.


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Reading an author’s books is one of the very way to understand the author’s point of view and in business, it is an easy guidance so as not to make mistakes while going on the entrepreneurial journey.