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8 November 2020
28 October 2020
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Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of Salesforce.comTheir words
Want to know the story behind how Salesforce was built? This is that story in founder Marc Benioff's own words. At times I found him overly prescriptive without an appreciation for his unfair advantages he had (getting to start it while having a big salary at Oracle, having $6Mn in "bootstrapped funding", etc). However, he also helped pioneer the cloud and SaaS as a business model, so there are many great lessons to glean if you're building a high-growth SaaS business.
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What Customers WantTheir words
This book was written before the Lean Startup movement, but espouses many of the same concepts. If you feel like you're starting at zero in understanding what to do to become customer driven, this is a good place to start.
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The Lean StartupTheir words
If you actually want to learn how to actually BE a lean startup or how to actually do it, this book will not help you. If you want to learn the high level concepts only then this is a great book. The other books I have above I encourage you to read before this one if you want to truly learn and implement lean practices. 7. On the Shortness of Life by Seneca (3.13.18)
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Pitching HacksTheir words
This is a really short book that just gets to the point. It's a great checklist to think about what you need to pull together if you're going to raise money from investors. It helps you avoid some common pitfalls and gives you a good start on what you need to do to nail your elevator, recruiting, and funding pitches.
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Community Building on the WebTheir words
If you need a 101 outline of the basics of how to build a community on the web regardless of your business type, this is a good, although now slightly dated, book to check out.
24 August 2020
27 July 2020
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Startup CommunitiesTheir words
has updated his excellent book on startup ecosystems
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The Startup Community WayTheir words
The timing of this book is excellent.
24 July 2020
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These small subsistence farmers generally seek to minimize risk, rather than maximize profits. After all, improving yields by 5% doesn’t mean much if everyone starves to death in the third year because of a tail-risk that wasn’t mitigated.
19 June 2020
28 May 2020
18 May 2020
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The Ride of a LifetimeTheir words
But I recently read another business book that I will happily recommend to anyone who asks: The Ride of a Lifetime, by former Disney CEO Robert Iger.
15 March 2020
7 February 2020
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The Fish that Ate the WhaleTheir words
One of the craziest, most impressive stories of business smarts I’ve come across and from someone otherwise unknown. Like a real-life Francisco d’Anconia from Atlas Shrugged.
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The 12 Week YearTheir words
It’s okay, didn’t feel like there was anything groundbreaking here in the planning, productivity, or business space though.
28 January 2020
5 November 2019
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If intelligence lies in the process of acquiring skills, then there is no task X such that skill at X demonstrates intelligence, unless X is actually a meta-task involving skill-acquisition across a broad range of tasks.
20 August 2019
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BenchTheir words
Bench handles all of the bookkeeping for my business.
2 August 2019
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This Is MarketingTheir words
A must-read for every entrepreneur. A holistic, generous, human, emotional, long-term, story-driven approach to your business. The world would be a much better place if businesses were led this way. You'll have a competitive advantage if you do this, since so few do.
28 May 2019
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The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and MeaningTheir words
Scott Galloway, The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning: Galloway should be familiar to readers as both the brand strategy professor at NYU Stern School of Business, a regular guest on Masters in Business, and as the author of The Four. He usually writes about technology and business, but concern with his students’ life issues led to this 10 minute YouTube video that garnered nearly 2 million views. That became this lovely short book which is likely to be a graduation and holiday gift for years to come.
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Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and LifeTheir words
Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life: Rory Sutherland is the Vice Chairman of advertising giant Ogilvy; he describes his “attractively vague job title” as allowing him the freedom to create a behavioral science practice within the ad agency. This looks intriguing.
30 January 2019
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There is no ongoing service without retention.
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Principles for Navigating Big Debt CrisesTheir words
His book Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises is an important read for investors that want to protect themselves from or benefit from recessions and other financial crises.
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The Little Book That Still Beats the MarketTheir words
Joel Greenblatt is one of the highest-performing value investors around, and this simple book gives an accessible outline of his formula.
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The Lessons of HistoryTheir words
It’s not an investing book, but The Lessons of History is one of the most important books for long-term investors to read, in my opinion.
20 January 2019
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
28 October 2018
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Odd LotsTheir words
Regular Rotation Investing Focused Interviews The Meb Faber Show Master in Business with Barry Ritholz Capital Allocators with Ted Seides Bloomberg’s Odd Lots with Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal
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Masters in BusinessTheir words
Regular Rotation Investing Focused Interviews The Meb Faber Show Master in Business with Barry Ritholz Capital Allocators with Ted Seides Bloomberg’s Odd Lots with Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal
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EconTalkTheir words
Economics or Business Interviews Conversations with Tyler with Tyler Cowen EconTalk with Russ Roberts General Interviews North Star Podcast with Dave Perell The Tim Ferriss Show
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Conversations with TylerTheir words
Economics or Business Interviews Conversations with Tyler with Tyler Cowen EconTalk with Russ Roberts General Interviews North Star Podcast with Dave Perell The Tim Ferriss Show
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The Tim Ferriss ShowTheir words
Economics or Business Interviews Conversations with Tyler with Tyler Cowen EconTalk with Russ Roberts General Interviews North Star Podcast with Dave Perell The Tim Ferriss Show
10 September 2018
22 August 2018
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A $250/mo recurring donation to would be a drop in the bucket of most businesses, but a major boon to any open source project, with which the business will almost certainly see tangible value-add as a result.
18 August 2018
16 July 2018
9 July 2018
30 June 2018
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Thirsty Dragon: China's Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Best WinesTheir words
This a journalistic book, a very sound bit of journalism by Suzanne Mustacich. She is based in Bordeaux, but she clearly travelled to China an awful lot and unravelled a most amusing commercial battle that went on in the early years of this decade between the Bordeaux chateau owners and merchants on the one side and Chinese business people on the other.
17 June 2018
From one piece Staying on the path to high performing teams. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A team should grow in bursts followed by periods of consolidation, because continuous hiring never lets it gel.Their words
Adding new folks to a team disrupts that team’s gelling process, so I’ve found it much easier to have rapid growth periods for any given team followed by consolidation/gelling periods where the team gels.
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Many folks try to move all teams at the same time, peanut buttering their limited resources, but resist that indecision-framed-as-fairness: no one getting anything is not a fair outcome.
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A team that is falling behind can only be fixed by hiring more people; no amount of process or patience will move it.Their words
When falling behind, the system fix is to hire more people until the team moves into treading water.
28 April 2018
26 April 2018
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31 January 2018
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SuperforecastingTheir words
Lots of interesting learnings and relevant to those making startup investments also!
1 January 2018
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Age of AmbitionTheir words
If you don’t really understand or know a lot about China today, this is one perspective. Good book.
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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at WorkTheir words
Podcast. Another classic manifesto from Jason Fried and DHH, challenging the status quo of business today. Properly sparkled with both “fuck”s and wisdom. Fuck 50 or 80-hour work weeks, the always stressed, always anxious way of working, constant crunch. Let’s all calm down. It doesn’t have to be crazy at work.
13 April 2017
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The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost ProfitsTheir words
The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits, by Zeynep Ton
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Delivering Happiness: A Path to ProfitsTheir words
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, by Tony Hsieh, Zappos
25 February 2017
From one piece Berkshire Hathaway 2016 Chairman's Letter 2 beliefs · berkshirehathaway.com
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Investors do better over time in a low-cost index fund than in a group of hedge funds, on average.Their words
Investors, on average and over time, will do better with a low-cost index fund than with a group of funds of funds.
Berkshire Hathaway 2016 Chairman's Letterberkshirehathaway.com
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The bottom line: When trillions of dollars are managed by Wall Streeters charging high fees, it will usually be the managers who reap outsized profits, not the clients. Both large and small investors should stick with low-cost index funds.
Berkshire Hathaway 2016 Chairman's Letterberkshirehathaway.com
22 December 2016
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ScreenFlowTheir words
ScreenFlow - I believe the future of my business is in video + video courses. I'm in ScreenFlow almost every day. Sometimes I use it to "hijack audio" during interviews. Sometimes I use it to edit video. It's getting a lot of use.
10 October 2016
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this is where the oft raised concern that hiring is slowing us down comes from: at high enough rates, the marginal added value of hiring gets very slow, especially if your training process is weak.
27 July 2016
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The feeds businesses design to be addictive are obstacles to anyone whose aim is to make something.Their words
Every business wants to get you addicted to their infinite updates, pings, chats, messages, and news. But if what you want out of life is to create, then those are your obstacles.
2 May 2016
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The Business BlockchainTheir words
the book makes a complex subject, blockchain technology, accessible for the non-technical
1 January 2016
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Zero to OneTheir words
Thoughts on building innovative new companies. There’s some startup BS in Zero to One that turned me off, but still enough interesting insight to recommend the book.
28 February 2014
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My advice to the trustee could not be more simple: Put 10% of the cash in short-term government bonds and 90% in a very low-cost S&P 500 index fund. (I suggest Vanguard’s.) I believe the trust’s long-term results from this policy will be superior to those attained by most investors – whether pension funds, institutions or individuals – who employ high-fee managers.
Berkshire Hathaway 2013 Chairman's Letterberkshirehathaway.com
3 July 2013
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A real product decision says a proposal is a great idea and still turns it down for something else.Their words
Real product decisions aren’t easy. They require you to look at a proposal and say “This is a really great idea, I can see why our customers would like it. Well done. But we’re not going to build it. Instead, here’s what we’re doing.”.
27 June 2013
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Third, a cash transfer to help the poor build business is like aspirin to a flesh wound. It helps, but not for long.
28 March 2013
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The EnduranceTheir words
I'm reading The Endurance and "by endurance we conquer" (Ernest Shackleton's family motto) struck me as a great piece of startup wisdom.
19 March 2013
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I was correct in my original article: what we call design thinking is practiced in some form or other by all great thinkers, whether in literature or art, music or science, engineering or business. But the difference is that in design, there is an attempt to teach it as a systematic, practice-defining method of creative innovation.
16 December 2012
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