Recommended Book List for Entrepreneurs

This article is an authorized excerpt from Zero to One Million by Ryan P. M. Allis, a book on how to build a company to one million dollars in sales based on the authors’ experience in doing just that in fourteen months in the nutraceuticals industry. Additional information on the book and an extensive entrepreneurship resource can be found at http://www.zeromillion.com.

The following books were used in the creation of Zero to One Million and are recommended for further reading.

Globalization & Economics

·         The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman

·         Against the Dead Hand by Brink Lindsey

·         The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto

·         The Other Path by Hernando de Soto

·         The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin

·         Economics by Stanley and Brue

·         Macroeconomics by N. Gregory Mankiw

·         Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter

·         International Business by Charles W. H. Hill

·         Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal by Ball and Dagger

·         The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L Heilbroner

Entrepreneurship

·         Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

·         Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing by Robert Kiyosaki

·         The Young Entrepreneurs’ Edge by Jennifer Kushnell

·         The Young Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting and Running a Business by Steve Mariotti

·         The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship by William D. Bygrave

·         New Venture Creation by Jeffrey Timmons

·         Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker

·         At Work with Thomas Edison by Blain McCormick

·         Multiple Streams of Income by Robert G. Allen

·         On Entrepreneurship by Harvard Business Review

·         Entrepreneurship.com by Tim Burns

Marketing

·         Obtaining a #1 Ranking in the Search Engines by Ryan Allis

·         Building Thousands of Links to Your Site by Ryan Allis

·         Net Results 2 by Rick E. Bruner

·         Protégé Training Program by Jay Abraham

·         Permission Marketing by Seth Godin

·         Guerilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson

·         Principles of Marketing by Kotler and Armstrong

Personal Development

·         Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

·         The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons by Napoleon Hill

·         Succeed and Grow Rich Through Persuasion by Napoleon Hill

·         How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

·         The Student Success Manifesto by Michael Simmons

·         The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven R. Covey

·         Secrets of the Young & Successful Jennifer Kushnell

·         Unlimited Power by Jeffrey Robbins

·         The Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D

Ryan Allis, is the CEO of Broadwick Corporation, a provider of permission-based email marketing and list management software IntelliContact Pro (www.intellicontact.com) and CEO of Virante, Inc. (www.virante.com) a Chapel Hill, North Carolina based web marketing consulting firm. Ryan, who is 19, is on leave for a year from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is an economics major and Blanchard Scholar. Additional information on the author can be found at www.ryanallis.com.