Getting ready for summer? May we suggest some great summer reading. The Blackstone Launchpad Innovation and Entrepreneurship Book Collection continues to grow. Here are the expanded titles as of May 2018. This award-winning collection, crowdsourced with the help of faculty, staff and students, is one of the most widely circulated categories of books at SU Libraries. You’ll find it just outside of the Blackstone LaunchPad, first floor of Bird Library. Check it out. And start reading! Entrepreneurship starts with exploration, and there is no time like summer to kick back and read.
| Title | Author |
| $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living Do What You Love and Create a New Future | Chris Guillebeau |
| 101 Design Methods | Vijay Kumar |
| ABA Consumer Guide to Obtaining a Patent: A Practical Resource for Helping Entrepreneurs & Innovators Protect Their Ideas | Rich Goldstein |
| Adventures of Ideas | Whitehead |
| Age of Insight | Eric R. Kandel |
| Agile Product Development: How to Design Innovative Products That Create Customer Value | Tathagat Varma |
| Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions. (No Rights Us) | Brian Christian |
| Art of Critical Making | Rosanne Somerson and Mara Hermano |
| Art of People: 11 Simple People Skills That Will Get You Everything You Want | Dave Kerpen |
| Art of The Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything | Guy Kawasaki |
| Art of The Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything | Guy Kawasaki |
| Art of War | Sun Tzu |
| Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World | Niall Ferguson |
| Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin |
| B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as A Force for Good | Ryan Honeyman |
| Benjamin Franklin: An American Life | Walter Isaacson |
| Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, And the Universe Itself | Sean Carroll |
| Biomimicry for Designers: Applying Nature’s Processes and Materials in The Real World | Veronika Kapsali |
| Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature | Janine Benyus |
| Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction | Arvind Narayanan |
| Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant | Chan Kim |
| Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in An Interconnected World | Jacqueline Novogratz |
| Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have | Josh Lerner |
| Building A Social Business | Muhammad Yunus |
| Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies | Jim Collins |
| Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do | Carl Schramm |
| Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers | Alexander Osterwalder |
| Business of Good: Social Entrepreneurship and The New Bottom Line | Jason Haber |
| Business Plans Handbook (Volumes 32 & 37) | Gale |
| Challenger Customer: Selling to The Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results | Brent Adamson |
| Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation | Tim Brown |
| Chief Marketing Officers at Work | Josh Steimle |
| Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt | Russ Harris |
| Contagious: Why Things Catch on | Jonah Berger |
| Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas | John Howkins |
| Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create Connect and Inspire | Bruce Nussbaum |
| Creative Priority: Putting Innovation to Work in Your Business | Jerry Hirshberg |
| Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers | Geoffrey Moore |
| Data Science for Business | Foster Provost |
| Design as Art | Bruno Munari |
| Design Basics | Stephen Pentak |
| Design of Everyday Things | Donald A. Norman |
| Design Process | Karl Aspelund |
| Design Studies: A Reader | Hazel Clark and David Brody |
| Design Thinking for The Greater Good: Innovation in The Social Sector | Jeanne Liedtka |
| Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA | Michael Luchs, Scott Swan, Abbe Griffin |
| Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup | David Cohen |
| Do the Kind Thing: Think Boundlessly, Work Purposefully, Live Passionately | Daniel Lubetzky |
| Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common-Sense Approach to Web Usability | Steve Krug |
| Drawing Is Thinking | Milton Glaser |
| Driver in The Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future | Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever |
| Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, And the Quest for A Fantastic Future | Ashlee Vance |
| Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital: Inside Secrets from The Leaders of The Startup Game | Andrew Romans |
| Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, And Collective Action (Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) | Martin Ruef |
| Entrepreneur’s Guide to Law and Strategy | Constance E Bagley |
| Entrepreneurship for The Creative and Cultural Industries | Bonita M. Kolb |
| Entrepreneurship in The Creative Industries: An International Perspective | Edited by: Colette Henry |
| Everything Store: Jeff Bezos And the Age of Amazon | Brad Stone |
| Executive Director’s Guide to Thriving as A Nonprofit Leader | Mim Carlson |
| Experimental Capitalism: The Nanoeconomics Of American High-Tech Industries (Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) | Steven Klepper – Edited By: Serguey Braguinsky, David A. Hounshell, John H. Miller |
| Explaining Creativity | Keith Sawyer |
| Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms | Danielle Laporte |
| Form A Partnership: The Complete Legal Guide | Denis Clifford |
| Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup | Noam Wasserman |
| Future Agenda: Six Challenges to the Next Decade | Caroline Dewing and Tim Jones |
| Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech | Heather Cabot |
| Geek Silicon Valley | Ashlee Vance |
| Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works | Roger L. Martin |
| Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women | Catherine Thimmesh |
| Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of The World’s Most Successful Companies | Charles Koch |
| Good to Great | Jim Collins |
| Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Duckworth |
| Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration Paperback | Keith Sawyer |
| Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building A Business When There Are No Easy Answers | Ben Horowitz |
| HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business | Richard Ruback |
| Heavy Hitter I.T. Sales Strategy: Competitive Insights from Interviews With 1,000+ Key Information Technology Decision Makers and Top Technology Salespeople | Steve Martin |
| How Did You Do It, Truett?: A Recipe for Success | Cathy Truett |
| How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, And the Birth of a New Network | Shane Greenstein |
| How to Change the World | David Bornstein |
| How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World | Steven Johnson |
| Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little) Craziness And (A Lot Of) Success in America | John Gartner |
| Idea Factory: Bell Labs and The Great Age of American Innovation | Jon Gertner |
| Inevitable: Understanding The 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future | Kevin Kelly |
| Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion | Cialdini, Robert B |
| Innovating: A Doer’s Manifesto for Starting from A Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, And Learning to Be Productively Wrong | Luis Perez-Breva |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Peter Drucker |
| Innovation and Scaling for Impact: How Effective Social Enterprises Do It | Christian Seelos |
| Innovation Blind Spot: Why We Back the Wrong Ideas and What to Do About It | Ross Baird |
| Innovation Code: The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict | Jeffrey Thomas Degraff |
| Innovator’s Dilemma | Clayton Christensen |
| Innovators: How A Group of Hackers, Geniuses, And Geeks Created the Digital Revolution | Walter Isaacson |
| Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia To Modern Times Edited (Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) | David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, William J. Baumol |
| It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be: The World’s Best-Selling Book by Paul Arden | Paul Arden |
| King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, And Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone | David Carey |
| Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Most Exclusive School for Startups | Randall Stross |
| Leadership Is an Art | Max Depree |
| Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow | Joshua Spodek |
| Lean Out | Dawn Foster |
| Lean Product Design and Development Journey: A Practical View | Marcus Vinicius Pereira Pessoa |
| Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses | Eric Ries |
| Lightning in A Bottle | David Minter and Michael Reid |
| Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, And Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way | Richard Branson |
| Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die | Chip Heath and Dan Heath |
| Managing the Nonprofit Organization | Peter Drucker |
| Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain | Anas Antonopoulos |
| Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-Up to IPO On Your Terms | Jeffery Bussgang |
| Mental Toughness for Women Leaders: 52 Tips to Recognize and Utilize Your Greatest Strengths | Larae Quy |
| Microtheory Of Innovative Entrepreneurship | William J. Baume |
| Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth Hardcover | Paul A. Gompers |
| My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla | Nikola Tesla |
| Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs | James Bloodworth |
| Networking China: The Digital Transformation of The Chinese Economy | Yu Hong |
| Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depended on It | Voss, Christopher |
| Next Generation Business Strategies for The Base of The Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value | Ted London |
| Nolo’s Patents for Beginners | David Pressman |
| Not So Obvious: An Introduction to Patent Law and Strategy | Jeffrey Schox |
| Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need | Anthony Iannarino |
| Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World | Adam Grant |
| People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and The American Century | Steven Watts |
| Philanthro-Capitalism: How the Rich Can Save The World | Matthew Bishop |
| Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, And Winning the Deal | Oren Klaff |
| Platform Revolution | Sangeet Paul Choudary, Geoffrey G Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne |
| Platform: Get Noticed in A Noisy World | Michael Hyatt |
| Pour Your Heart into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at A Time | Howard Schultz |
| Power of Little Ideas: A Third Way to Innovate for Market Success | David C Robertson |
| Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely |
| Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience | Carmine Gallo |
| Presentation Techniques: A Guide to Drawing and Presenting Design Ideas | Dick Powell |
| Principles: Life and Work | Ray Dalio |
| Profit from Your Idea: How to Make Smart Licensing Deals | Richard Stim |
| Purpose Economy | Aaron Hurst |
| Purpose Is Profit: The Truth About Starting and Building Your Own Business | Ed McLaughlin |
| Raising Venture Capital for The Serious Entrepreneur | Dermot Berkery |
| Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less | Robert Sutton |
| Screw Business as Usual | Richard Branson |
| Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, And Survival in The Age of Networks | Joshua Cooper Ramo |
| Shoe Dog: A Memoir by The Creator of Nike | Philip H. Knight |
| Small Is the New Big: And 183 Other Riffs, Rants, And Remarkable Business Ideas | Seth Godin |
| Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Productivity in Life and Business | Charles Duhigg |
| Snowball: Warren Buffett And the Business of Life | Alice Schroeder |
| Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook, Expanded Edition: Pressure Test, Plan, Launch and Scale Your Social Enterprise | Ian C. Macmillan |
| Social Entrepreneurship: A Skills Approach | Christopher Durkin |
| Solomon’s Knot: How Law Can End the Poverty of Nations (Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) | Robert D. Cooter, Hans-Bernd Schäfer |
| Start Something That Matters | Blake Mycoskie |
| Startup CEO A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business | Matt Blumberg |
| Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City | Brad Feld |
| Startup Equation: A Visual Guidebook to Building, Launching and Scaling Your Startup | Steven Fisher |
| Startup Game: Inside the Partnership Between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs | William H. Draper |
| Startup Playbook: Founder-to-Founder Advice From Two Startup Veterans | Rajat Bhargava and Will Herman |
| Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth | Eric Ries |
| Steal Like an Artist | Austin Kleon |
| Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life | Michael Port |
| Storyscaping: Stop Creating Ads, Start Creating Worlds | Gaston Legorburu |
| Succeeding at Social Enterprise: Hard-Won Lessons for Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs | Social Enterprise Alliance |
| Success and Luck: Good Fortune and The Myth of Meritocracy | Robert H. Frank. |
| Sustainability Generation: The Politics of Change & Why Personal Accountability is Essential Now! | Mark C. Coleman |
| Tactics of Hope: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World | Wilford Welch |
| Tao Of Leadership: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching | John Heider |
| Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs | Larry Keeley |
| Term Sheets & Valuations – An Inside Look at The Intricacies of Venture Capital Term Sheets & Valuations | Alex Wilmerding |
| Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students | Ellen Lupton |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman |
| Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of The Future | Stephen Case |
| Thoughts on Interaction Design | Jon Kolko |
| Thriving on Chaos | Tom Peters |
| Time to Trust: Mobilizing Humanity for a Sustainable Future | Mark C. Coleman |
| To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others | Daniel Pink |
| Tom Peters Essentials: Design | Tom Peters |
| Tom Peters Essentials: Leadership | Tom Peters |
| Tom Peters Essentials: Talent | Tom Peters |
| Tom Peters Essentials: Trends | Tom Peters |
| Travels of A T-Shirt in The Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, And Politics of World Trade | Pietra Rivoli |
| True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership Hardcover | Bill George |
| Turn Ideas into Products: A Playbook for Defining and Delivering Technology Products | Steve Johnson |
| Understanding Social Enterprise: Theory and Practice | Rory Ridley-Duff |
| Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds | Michael Lewis |
| Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, And the Killer Companies of The New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World | Brad Stone |
| Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want | Alex Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Greg Bernarda, Alan Smith; Designed by Trish Papadakos. |
| Venture Deals | Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson |
| Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in A More Connected World (Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) | Amar Bhidé |
| Visual Notes for Architects and Designers | Norman Crowe |
| Way Things Work | David Macaulay |
| We Were Yahoo! From Internet Pioneer to the Trillion Dollar Loss of Google and Facebook | Jeremy Ring |
| What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know: An Insider Reveals How to Get Smart Funding for Your Billion-Dollar Idea | Brian Cohen |
| Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation | Steven Johnson |
| Where to Play: 3 Steps for Discovering Your Most Valuable Market Opportunities | Marc Gruber and Sharon Tal |
| Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving | Jon Kolko |
| Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Paperback | Don Tapscott |
| Wild Ride: Inside Uber’s Quest for World Domination | Adam Lashinsky |
| Will It Fly? | Thomas K. Mcknight |
| Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell–And Live–The Best Stories Will Rule the Future | Jonah Sachs |
| Wisdom of Crowds Paperback | James Surowiecki |
| Year Up: How A Pioneering Program That Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs- – With Real Success | Gerald Chertavian |
| Young Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting and Running a Business: Turn Your Ideas into Money! | Steve Mariotti |
| Zen And the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert Pirsig |
| Zero to One: Notes on Startups, Or How to Build the Future | Peter Thiel, Blake Masters |