Books we have read that have taught us, inspired us and helped our entrepreneurs in their journey.
Biography/History/Philosophy:
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| An Empire Of Wealth John Steele Gordon |
Boys In the Boat Daniel James Brown |
The Creators Daniel Boorstein |
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| The Fountainhead Ayn Rand |
Musashi Eiji Yoshikav |
Shoe Dog Phil Night |
General Business:
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| Blink Malcolm Gladwell |
The Industries of the Future Alec Ross |
Option B Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant |
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| Outliers Malcolm Gladwell |
Company Building:
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| Built to Last Jim Collins |
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni |
Founders at Work Jessica Livingston |
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| Good to Great Jim Collins |
Great by Choice Jim Collins |
The Hard Thing about Hard Things Ben Horowitz |
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| High Output Management Andrew S. Grove |
How the Mighty Fall Jim Collins |
How to Start a Startup Lecture Series by Sam Altman |
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| The Lean Startup Eric Ries |
The Mind of the Strategist Kenichi Ohmae |
Peopleware Tom DeMarco |
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| Startup CEO Matt Blumberg |
Talent is Overrated Geoff Colvin |
Company Culture:
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| The Culture Code Daniel Coyle |
Drive Patrick Lencioni |
The Gospel of Wealth Andrew Carnegie |
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| How Google Works Eric Schmidt |
The Score Takes Care of Itself Bill Walsh |
Decision Making:
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| Blue Ocean Strategy W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne |
The Book of Five Rings D.E. Tarver, Miyamoto Musashi |
Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success John Wooden, Jay Carty |
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| Decisive Chip Heath, Dan Heath |
The Effective Executive Peter F. Drucker |
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves |
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| First, Break all the Rules Marcus Buckingham |
The Founder’s Dilemma Noam Wasserman |
Only the Paranoid Survive Andrew S. Grove |
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| Poor Charlie’s Almanack Peter D. Kaufman, Charles T. Munger |
Predictably Irrational Dr. Dan Ariely |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey |
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| The Social Animal David Brooks |
Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Kaheman |
Poor Charlie’s Almanack Reginald Rose, Sidney Lumet |
Engineering & Technology:
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| The Datacenter as a Computer Luiz André Barroso, Jimmy Clidaras, Urs Hölzle |
Deep Learning Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville |
How to Write and Publish Engineering Reports Herbert Michaelson |
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| Paul Graham Essays Paul Graham |
Scaling up Machine Learning Ron Bekkerman, Mikhail Bilenko , John Langford |
Financial Planning:
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| The Intelligent Investor Daniel Coyle |
The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need Andrew Tobias |
Fund Raising:
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| Creative Capital Spencer E. Ante |
Pioneering Portfolio Management David F. Swensen |
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea Gary Kinder |
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| The Startup Game William H. Draper III |
Venture Deals Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson |
Warren Buffet Shareholder Letters Warren Buffet |
Innovation:
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| Alan Turing Andrew Hodges |
The Innovator’s Dilemma Clayton M. Christensen |
Made to Stick Chip Heath, Dan Heath |
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| Rework Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson |
Zero to One Peter Thiel |
Leadership:
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| The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive Patrick Lencioni |
How Great Leaders Inspire Action Simon Sineck |
Primal Leadership Daniel Goleman |
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| The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli |
The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley |
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action Simon Sinek |
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| Together is Better Simon Sinek |
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership John C. Maxwell |
Marketing:
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| Branded Customer Service Janelle Barlow and Paul Stewart |
Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey A. Moore |
Call Me Ted Ted Turner |
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| The Four Steps to the Epiphany Steve Blank |
Play Bigger Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, Kevin Maney |
The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell |
Presentation:
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| In the Line of Fire Jerry Weissman |
Pitch Anything Orren Klaff |
The Power Presenter Jerry Weissman |
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| Presentations in Action Jerry Weissman |
Presenting to Win Jerry Weissman |
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter |
Recruiting & Human Resources:
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| Great People Decisions Claudio Fernández-Aráoz |
Who Geoff Smart, Randy Street |
Sales:
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| Cold Calling Techniques Stephen Schiffman |
The New Selling Strategy Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, Tad Tuleja |
Predictable Revenue Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler |
Clear Ventures Reading List also provides a list of summaries for all our recommendations.
