Articles and Short Reads: Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Rapid Innovation Cycle
- Innovation as a Learning Process: Embedding Design Thinking
- Feld Thoughts
- Paul Graham Essays
Curated Resources: Startups / Entrepreneurship / Innovation
Articles and Short Reads: Hardware Prototyping
- Ben Einstein (formerly Bolt.vc) – Illustrated Guide to Hardware Product Development
- Dragon Innovation
Books and Longer Reads
| Book | Topic/Comment |
| The 4-hour Work Week by Tim Ferris (2007) | Entrepreneurship Rethink what it means to be “Rich”. The “New Rich” value time and experiences…not money. |
| The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (2011) | Entrepreneurship Build, test, learn. It’s that simple; which is what makes it so powerful. |
| Design a Better Business by Patrick van der Pijl, Justin Lokitz, Lisa Kay Solomon (2016) | Innovation These people know how to innovate around business models and kickstart new products / services. |
| The Startup Owner’s Manual by Steve Blank, Bob Dorf (2012) | Entrepreneurship A reference manual for how to build your startup |
| Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight (2016) | Entrepreneurship The amazing story of Phil Knight and how he built the Nike empire. |
| Bad Blood by John Carreyou (2018) | Startups How not to be an entrepreneur |
| The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber (1986) | Entrepreneurship Dated examples, but process and structural framework of a “franchise prototype” is helpful to get some entrepreneurs “unstuck” from being the “eternal technician”. |
| Measure What Matters by John Doerr (2017) | Management Powerful story on Objectives and Key Results aka, OKRs. The tool Google used and continues to use to manage extraordinary business progress |
| Sprint: how to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp (2016) | Entrepreneurship Methodologies used by Google to conduct market experiments |
| Great Again: Revitalizing America’s Entrepreneurial Leadership by Henry Nothhaft (2011) | Entrepreneurship Bad title, good book on why entrepreneurship is important in the United States |
| Venture Deals by Brad Feld, Jason Mandelson (2011) | Investments: VC Wise advice from a seasoned entrepreneur turned investor |
| Angel by Jason Calacanis (2016) | Investments: Angel A view from the other side. Learn more about your “customer” if you decide to raise venture money. |
| The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz (2014) | Entrepreneurship Wise advice from a seasoned entrepreneur turned investor |
| Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreements without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William Ury (1981) | Negotiation Book is less cut-throat as Voss, but still effective. “Principled Negotiation” is their term. |
| Never Split the DIfference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss (2016) | Negotiation Lots of strategies and tactics to getting favorable terms. |
| Great People Decisions by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz (2007) | Management How to hire the right people |
| The Art of Learning by Joshua Waitzkin (2007) | Learning Learn how to learn. Guided by a former chess master and jiujitsu expert |
| The Startup Way by Eric Ries (2017) | Startups Build, test, learn for corporations |