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Permanent Record
Edward Snowden

Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Finance
Marco Da Rin & Thomas Hellmann

The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results
Andrew McAfee

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe

Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do about It
Josh Lerner

The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman

The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence
Ros Atkins

The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
David Runciman

Show Your Work! 10 Ways To Share Your Creativity And Get Discovered
Austin Kleon

The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
Keach Hagey

Periferie competitive. Lo sviluppo dei territori nell'economia della conoscenza
Giulio Buciuni, Giancarlo Corò

Let my people go surfing. La filosofia di un imprenditore ribelle
Yvon Chouinard

Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups--Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000
Jason Calacanis

Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Patrick McGee

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez

La quarta rivoluzione. Come l'infosfera sta trasformando il mondo
Luciano Floridi

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
Simon Sinek

Il lato oscuro delle storie. Come lo storytelling cementa le società e talvolta le distrugge
Jonathan Gottschall

Lo slancio decisivo. Il decennio determinante per il nostro destino industriale
Carlo Purassanta

Nudge. La spinta gentile
Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein

Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
Hugh Aldersey-Williams

The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck
David Spiegelhalter

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail
Ray Dalio

Source Code: My Beginnings
Bill Gates

Not the End of the World: Surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet Earth
Hannah Ritchie

The Upstarts: Uber, Airbnb, and the battle for the new Silicon Valley
Brad Stone

The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993
Jordan Mechner

The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
Josh Kaufman

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
Sebastian Mallaby

The Revolt of the Public: And the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium
Martin Gurri

The Start-up of You: Adapt, Take Risks, Grow Your Network, and Transform Your Life
Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
Jeremy Rifkin

The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth
Ilya Strebulaev, Alex Dang

The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
Mariana Mazzucato

Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff

Turn The Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders
L. David Marquet

What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley
Adrian Daub

What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
Ben Horowitz

Where Is My Flying Car?
J. Storrs Hall

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Nadia Eghbal

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Stategies
Nick Bostrom

The Barcelona Way: How to Create a High-Performance Culture
Damian Hughes

The $100 Startup: reinvent the way you make a living, do what you love, and create a new future
Chris Guillebeau

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Al Ries, Jack Trout

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
Richard Hamming

Talento: come scovare le persone vincenti, creative e piene di energia positiva
Tyler Cowen, Daniel Gross

The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
Michael S. Malone

The Dream Machine: J.c.r. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
M. Mitchell Waldrop

The Future
Naomi Alderman

The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product
Andrew Chen

Stubborn Attachments: a vision for a society of free, prosperous, and responsible individuals
Tyler Cowen

Startup CXO: a field guide to scaling up your company’s critical functions and teams
Matt Blumberg

Scaling People: tactics of management and company building
Claire Hughes Johnson

Start with why: how great leaders inspire everyone to take action
Simon Sinek

Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
Dan Senor, Saul Singer

Startup Communities: building an entrepreneurial ecosystem
Brad Feld

Startup. Trasformare un'idea in un'impresa di successo
Paolo Guccini

Startup e Venture Capital: guida ai segreti di un rapporto ad alto potenziale
Jason Feld

Startupper: Guida alla creazione di imprese innovative
Steve Blank, Bob Dorf

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

Storie di Startup: dalla A alla Z
VINCENZO E.M. GIARDINO

Neuromarketing e scienze cognitive per vendere di più sul web
Andrea Saletti

L’Occhio della Tigre: Startup, imprenditori coraggiosi e investitori lungimiranti per cambiare l’Italia
Giancarlo Rocchietti

Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones

Lost and Founders: a painfully honest field guide to the startup world
Rand Fishkin

Mastering Uncertainty: how to thrive in a unpredictable world
Csaba Konkoly, Matt Watkinson

Measure what Matters: OKRs The Simple Ideas That Drives 10x Growth
John Doerr

La macchina dell’immaginazione
Martin Reeves, Jack Fuller

No rules rules: Netflix and Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer

Remember everything, achieve anything: Building a Second Brain
Tiago Forte

REWORK: Change the way you work forever
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried

Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business
Gino Wickman, Mark C. Winters

Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio

High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 people
Elad Gil

Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
Brad Feld, David B. Cohen

Domani è oggi: costruisci il tuo futuro con le lenti della demografia
Francesco Billari

Fare Impresa: dall’identificazione delle opportunità alla gestione di nuovi business
Francesco Andrea Saviozzi

Fundraising Field Guide: A Startup Founder’s Handbook V2.0
Carlos Espinal

Get together: how to build a community with your people
Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, Kai Elmer Sotto

Get Your Startup Story Straight: The Definitive Storytelling Framework for Innovators and Entrepreneurs
David Riemer

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Jim Collins

Go to Market: The marketing and scaling blueprint for startups
Joana Inch

How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Matt Ridley

The new prince. Why and how to startup
Marco Trombetti

Innovation Finance and Technology Transfer
Andrea Alunni

Innovatori outsider. Nuovi modelli imprenditoriali per il capitalismo italiano
Giulio Buciuni

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Marty Cagan

Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
Pagan Kennedy

Il Codice Segreto del Linguaggio: Come affinare l'intelligenza linguistica e costruire la comunicazione perfetta in 10 passi
Paolo Borzacchiello

Digital Minimalism: choosing a focused life ina noisy world
Cal Newport

Company Startuppers: unlocking the hidden entrepreneurial potential in our organizations
Roberto Battaglia

Chimica Sociale: Alla scoperta degli schemi che connettono le persone
Marissa King

Clock Work: Design your business to run itself
Mike Michalowicz

Diventa chi sei: Una pratica guida per persone creative che hanno molteplici passioni ed interessi
Emilie Wapnick

Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 steps to a successful startup
Bill Aulet

Capitali di Ventura: i segreti dell’industria dell’innovazione
Gabriele Grecchi

Breaking into Venture: an outsider turned venture capitalist shares how to take risks, create power, and build life-changing wealth
Allison Baum Gates

Continuous Discovery HABITS
Teresa Torres

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskowitz

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