You get up early every day, starting the day motivated to find new leads and customers. But working hard until late in the evening more often than not fails to pay off.

The money isn’t flowing. And you don’t really know how to fix that.

We know the struggle. Being your own boss and calling up all the shots is both exciting, scary and extremely challenging. Wonder how to make things easier? Our list of top business books might come in handy:

1. The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Yes, you already know that running a business is hard. The co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of the most respected Silicon Valley entrepreneurs can help you with practical advice on building and scaling up a start-up business.

While you can learn a lot at business school, they fail to cover the toughest practical problems. Horowitz analyzes the problems that stand in the way of leaders every day, sharing his own insights and ways to deal with these problems.

2. The Lean Startup: How Today`s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Need to look at your business from a different angle? The Lean Startup is a modern approach that preaches “validated learning” and experimentation that will help you adjust your business to the needs of your clients while bringing you stability and growing revenues.

The theories presented in this book have been adopted across the world, gaining a network of supporters.

3. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Do you want to learn how to build companies and create new things?

Use Peter Thiel`s experience as a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, as well as his knowledge gathered from investments in hundreds of start-ups like Facebook and SpaceX. Seems like all successful people have something in common: they find value in unexpected places.

In Youshop you can find a lot of books in different directions.