Books: Good reads about startups, entrepreneurship

When Tom Chapman and Andy Stoll spoke to a large group of business and community leaders in Sioux City recently, they recommended a number of books about creating an ecosystem for entrepreneurship, startups and building for success.

Here are the books they recommended, as well as others contributed to a LinkedIn discussion on the same topic.

• Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki

• Startup Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer

• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

• Boulevard of Broken Dreams, by Josh Lerner and Dennis Holland is about community involvement (and failure) and entrepreurship.

• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, by Steven Johnson

• Startup Communities by Brad Feld

• For the Love of Cities by Peter Kageyama

Got a book you recommend about entrepreneurship, innovation or starting a business? Share it below in a comment.