The Best Business Startup - October 2020

Based on the analysis of 6,856 reviews.

Rank		Manufacturer	Product	Score
1 Best Value	Score: 9.4 Price: $$$ Start Your Own Business, Sixth Edition: The Onl...	Inc Staff Entrepreneur Media	Start Your Own Business, Sixth Edition: The Only Startup Book You'll Ever Need By Inc Staff Entrepreneur Media 70 reviews	9.4	$$$ View Product
2	Score: 8.6 Price: $$$ How to Start a Business: Startup Essentials-The...	Visit Amazon's Rachael L. Thompson Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Rachael L. Thompson,	How to Start a Business: Startup Essentials-The Simple, Step-by-Step Guide to Successfully Start ... By Visit Amazon's Rachael L. Thompson Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Rachael L. Thompson, 18 reviews	8.6	$$$ View Product
3	Score: 8.8 Price: $$$ The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a L...	Chris Guillebeau	The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future By Chris Guillebeau 1,320 reviews	8.8	$$$ View Product
4 Top Choice Best Seller	Score: 9 Price: $$$ The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use...	Crown Business	The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Success... By Crown Business 1,844 reviews	9.0	$$$ View Product
5	Score: 9.2 Price: $$$ Business Law Basics: A Legal Handbook for Onlin...	James Hart	Business Law Basics: A Legal Handbook for Online Entrepreneurs and Startup Businesses By James Hart 26 reviews	9.2	$$$ View Product
6	Score: 9.8 Price: $$$ The Start-Up J Curve: The Six Steps to Entrepre...	Howard Love	The Start-Up J Curve: The Six Steps to Entrepreneurial Success By Howard Love 72 reviews	9.8	$$$ View Product
7	Score: 9 Price: $$$ The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Gu...	Visit Amazon's Steve Blank Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Steve Blank, , Visit Amazon's Bob Dorf Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Bob Dorf,	The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company By Visit Amazon's Steve Blank Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Steve Blank, , Visit Amazon's Bob Dorf Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Bob Dorf, 294 reviews	9.0	$$$ View Product
8	Score: 10 Price: $$$ The “Startup No Fail” approach: It ...	Aladdin Happy	The “Startup No Fail” approach: It took me 5 years and 7 fails to uncover it and succ... By Aladdin Happy 1 reviews	10.0	$$$ View Product
9	Score: 9.6 Price: $$$ Startup Evolution Curve From Idea to Profitable...	Visit Amazon's Dr. Donatas Jonikas Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Dr. Donatas Jonikas,	Startup Evolution Curve From Idea to Profitable and Scalable Business: Startup Marketing Manual By Visit Amazon's Dr. Donatas Jonikas Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Dr. Donatas Jonikas, 45 reviews	9.6	$$$ View Product
10	Score: 9.6 Price: $$$ Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Id...	Pat Flynn	Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money By Pat Flynn 690 reviews	9.6	$$$ View Product

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James Hart

Jim Hart is a intellectual property and trademark attorney that practices in Cary, North Carolina. He's the creator of Hawthorn Law, a law firm devoted to working with online entrepreneurs and compact businesses. Jim is licensed in both North Carolina and Florida.

Jim has a wife and three children. In his spare time, he enjoys walking his dog, listening to podcasts, and spending some time with his family.

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Howard Love

Howard Love was launching companies for more than 30 years, even before his graduation from Colgate University in 1983. He's established or jelqing within 15 businesses and invested in over 50 early stage start-ups as an angel investor, including Hotel Tonight, Open Table and Trulia. He has been CEO of numerous start-ups and was an adviser to a lot of others. Love has become a lifelong student of entrepreneurship and concentrated on what makes startup businesses successful. He has served on numerous private and public company boards and is presently on the board of directors of HotelTonight, FlexJobs, 10 Foot Wave, and Knowingly/Gigaom. Love also possesses and is CEO of LoveToKnow, a digital media writer, which he began in 2004. LoveToKnow has over 30 million monthly visitors to it has various media properties which include LoveToKnow.com, YourDictionary.com, Trails.com and GolfLink.com. Mr. Love has lived in Silicon Valley for the last twenty-five years. For more information, visit howardlove.com.

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Pat Flynn

Pat Flynn is a cherished notion leader in the regions of online entrepreneurship, electronic advertising, and lifestyle businesses. He is routinely celebrated for his transparent leadership design and real principles. Pat overcame career hardship from a young age by finding his own course and authentic enthusiasm. Regardless of his success in business, Pat's greatest joys are spending time with his loved ones and friends as well as helping inspire and educate others on how best to succeed with their very own entrepreneurial careers.

Pat has been featured in The New York Times and Forbes Magazine because of his accomplishments, and has recently been enjoying talking about his story and company plans in front of large crowds at different events and conventions all over the world. His top-ranked business podcast, The Smart Passive Income Podcast, has earned over 25 million downloads and continues to inspire people as they work through their internet business journey now.

Pat is also an advisor to Pencils of Promise, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building schools in the developing world, as well as companies such as LeadPages and ConvertKit.

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Josh Kaufman

Josh Kaufman is the author of two international bestsellers, "The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business" and "The First 20 Hours: The Way to Learn About... Quickly!" Josh is among the top 100 business writers in the world, and was featured as the #1 bestselling author in Business & Money, as rated by Amazon.com.

Josh conducts ongoing independent research into business, entrepreneurship, skill acquisition, productivity, behavioural psychology, social systems design, and optimisation, and focuses on helping individuals understand how to make more money, get more done, and have much more fun in daily life.

Josh's special, multidisciplinary approach to business mastery and fast skill acquisition has helped millions of readers across the world learn fundamental theories and skills in their terms. The widely-acclaimed Private MBA manifesto and company reading list has been downloaded more than 3 million times, and his TEDx talk on The First 20 Hours has been seen over 5 million times worldwide, placing it at the best 10 most-viewed TEDx videos and top 100 most-viewed TED talks published up to now.

Josh's research has been featured by The New York Times, The BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Fortune, Forbes, Time, BusinessWeek, Wired, Speedy Company, Financial Times, HarvardBusiness.org, Inside Higher Ed, Lifehacker, MarketWatch, The Independent, Bloomberg TV, PBS Next Avenue, CCTV, along with CNN's Sanjay Gupta MD..

Josh has been a featured speaker at The Aspen Ideas Festival, Stanford University, World Domination Summit, Pioneer Nation, Microconf, BaconBiz, Google, and IBM.

JoshKaufman.net was named among the "Top 100 Sites for entrepreneurs" by Forbes at 2013.

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