If you are in need of a book for a class project, business inspiration, or just an informative read, look no further than the Start Something College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) library located inside 0030 Curtiss Hall. With a wide selection of literature at your fingertips, learning something new is as easy as signing your name on the Start Something CALS library check-out sheet.
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Books about Startup Businesses
All in Startup (Amazon)
Business Model Generation (Amazon)
Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation Amazon
On Innovation (Amazon)
Profit First (Amazon)
Startup Boards (Amazon)
Startup Communities (Amazon)
The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Amazon)
The Industries of the Future (Amazon)
The Lean Startup (Amazon)
The Messy Middle (Amazon)
The Startup Community Way (Amazon)
Value Proposition Design (Amazon)
Zero to One (Amazon)
Books about Successful Entrepreneurs
1,000 Dollars & an Idea (Amazon)
Beyond Tallulah (Amazon)
Beyond the Lemonade Stand (Amazon)
Creating Abundance (Amazon)
Cyrus McCormick and the Mechanical Reaper (Amazon)
Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology (Amazon)
Edison (Amazon)
Elon Musk (Amazon)
Pour Your Heart into It (Amazon)
Principles (Amazon)
Quench Your Own Thirst (Amazon)
Mover of Men and Mountains (Amazon)
Shoe Dog (Amazon)
Small Giants (Amazon)
Tesla (Amazon)
That Will Never Work (Amazon)
The Barefoot Spirit (Amazon)
The Intelligent Entrepreneur (Amazon)
The John Deere Story (Amazon)
The New New Thing (Amazon)
The Outsiders (Amazon)
The Warren Buffett Way (Amazon)
Titan (Amazon)
Who Is (Amazon)
Books about Personal & Business Growth
12 Rules for Life (Amazon)
A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur's Spirit (Amazon)
Beyond Order (Amazon)
Black Box Thinking (Amazon)
Built for Growth (Amazon)
Faster, Cheaper, Better (Amazon)
Grit (Amazon)
Grow to Be Great (Amazon)
How (Amazon)
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Amazon)
Life Entrepreneurs (Amazon)
Mindset (Amazon)
Not Fade Away (Amazon)
Self-Employed (Amazon)
Skin in the Game (Amazon)
The Effective Executive (Amazon)
The No Rule (Amazon)
The Obstacle is the Way (Amazon)
The Strategy Paradox (Amazon)
Tools of Titans (Amazon)
Venture Deals (Amazon)
Books with Interesting Ideas
Abundance (Amazon)
Antifragile (Amazon)
Doing Deals (Amazon)
Fluke (Amazon)
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Amazon)
How People Learn (Amazon)
How the West Won (Amazon)
Life After Google (Amazon)
Lords of Finance (Amazon)
Moonwalking with Einstein (Amazon)
Outliers (Amazon)

The Physics of Life (Amazon)
The Rational Optimist (Amazon)
Unshakable (Amazon)