Seeking Book Recs: best books you've read about female founders, entrepreneurs, and investors

yxzhang·Dec 29, 2020

Posted in:Advice Personal Growth Society & Culture

Looking for recommendations on books about women that have carved out financial freedom as entrepreneurs, inventors, and investors. Any recommendations?Looking more for people that have built successful businesses, and not traditional corporate leaders (e.g. Female Fortune 500 leaders)Thanks for any recs!

Iynna·Dec 30, 2020

As more replies come in, I wanted to point you towards this thread which has been popping with amazing recommendations - hope you find something helpful :) https://elpha.com/posts/eb8ooq96/what-have-been-your-favorite-books-this-year

lirida·Dec 30, 2020

New startup mindset! https://www.sandrashpilberg.com/

yxzhang·Dec 30, 2020

Thanks for sharing @lirida

juliaodoherty·Dec 30, 2020

I enjoyed Banking On It by Anne Boden, the founder of Starling bank. She talks about her experiences of starting a bank in her 50s and the ups and downs of finding investment and getting a banking licence.I'm also enjoying Make Life Beautiful by Shea and Syd McGee who have an interior design company. It's a very different business, but you get the same sense of how they had to overcome challenges to build a business.Neither gives lots of specific tips on how to do the same thing, but hearing them talk about their challenges, how things went wrong, and how they felt helped to normalise some of the feelings I have building new things as a Product Manager.

yxzhang·Dec 30, 2020

Thanks for sharing these recs along with a quick synopsis of each--really appreciate it @juliaodoherty

JaneK·Dec 30, 2020

We just recently started a female founders book club! We're an international group of female founders, aspiring founders and all interested in entrepreneurship. In our book club we read the latest and greatest books on entrepreneurship, leadership and innovation and discuss them together to share our experiences. If you're interested, you can join us here: https://female-founders-book-club.mn.co/

yxzhang·Dec 30, 2020

Thanks @janinekopp sounds like an awesome community

annaluscombe·Dec 30, 2020

Here are a few that are top of mind: 1) Leapfrog: the new revolution for women entrepreneurs and 2) Cooking up a Business: lessons from food entrepreneurs (not all women but a number of women included).

yxzhang·Dec 30, 2020

Thanks for these recs @annaluscombe

grishma·Dec 31, 2020

Thanks! Just ordered the first one :)

sarabosca·Dec 30, 2020

I think that this one is really excitinghttps://www.amazon.it/dp/B08Q8DRJFV/?coliid=I2UPAVIIWYESO2&colid=3IWDWCPTYV83J&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

yxzhang·Dec 30, 2020

Thanks @sarabosca appreciate you sharing

LKT·Jan 07, 2021

These are more in the general tech/investing space, but I loved Ellen Pao's Reset and Emily Chang's Brotopia.