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Re: Books For Entrepreneurs

fredwilson — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:40:19 -0000

Thanks

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brett821 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:44:05 -0000

Finding Your Zone - Michael Lardon - a sports psychology that teaches you how to excel
Rogue Warrior - Richard Marcinko - bio of a navy seal

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Elie Seidman — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:44:13 -0000

iCon about Steve Jobs is fantastic

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cc — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:48:48 -0000

Somewhat trite list, IMHO.

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JenH — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:58:36 -0000

Just read the pre-release of KIDPRENEURS "Young Entrepreneurs with BIG ideas" (my kids loved it!)
http://www.Kidpreneurs.org

Loved it!

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benjaminjtaylor — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:07:24 -0000

A belated comment but my Amazon order just arrived! Thanks for the list! I'll add my suggestions to the wiki.

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Sekou Murphy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:39:38 -0000

You're the 3rd person I heard reco this book for entrepreneurs in the last week...

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Sekou Murphy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:38:58 -0000

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Sandy McKinnon — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:52:44 -0000

As a vision of a near future dystopia, I think Snowcrash's prescience is awesome - it nails google earth - and so much more... See with Diamond Age - as a current IT VC and a lapsed Nanotechnologist - the suspension of disbelief was just too much - I do think the vractor meme has legs wrt Twitter and social media communication - but the self-replication stuff broke too many physics laws (and lapsed into magic).

Still, both are better than Vinge's Rainbow's End - which I found contrived... Hey as well as movies we should do poetry ;-) - and nothing better than a boy's own IF by Rudyard Kipling ;-)

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Virus Protection — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:55:48 -0000

Thanks for the great list of books guys! Really appreciate the effort!

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Harinath Pudipeddi — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:28:57 -0000

Here is my list. I need to update a lot more, but still a good beginning :)

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PKafka — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:25:35 -0000

Not embarrassing at all! I thought about doing the same thing -- or at least writing a single post about it -- but never did it. Good for you!

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javajames — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:44:43 -0000

You got to watch startup.com; It's a must watch for an entrepreneur or VC. Citizen Kane is a great movie but I don't get it's relevance.

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javajames — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:40:38 -0000

Mine would be: Case Studies, Motivational, Leadership, Technical, Stories(Fictional)/Lessons
Not that everything neccesarily fits into one of them or only one of them, but thats what I came up with based on this thread.

Re: Books For Entrepreneurs

fredwilson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:47:05 -0000

Classics

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fredwilson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:05:35 -0000

I think so

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fredwilson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:05:31 -0000

I knew we'd get to movies at some point

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jengroff — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:34:49 -0000

I would include a couple of sci-fi books in that list, since there is often great vision and creativity to be found in such books (key qualities for an entrepreneur): Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash", William Gibson's "Neuromancer" come to mind.

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Derek Skaletsky — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:12:06 -0000

So agree on the Kitchen Nightmares -- even agree more with you on the BBC version. So good. A bit embarrassing to admit, but I actually started blogging lessons learned from each episode last year! Here's an example: http://phase2strategy.typep...

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reece — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:50:58 -0000

I just finished Good to Great. Awesome book. Also, reading Purple Cow (Godin). One more business book I'd add to this list is Made to Stick.

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Dave Pinsen — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:59:39 -0000

Interesting.

Coincidentally, there's a science fiction writer named Michael Swanwick, and today -- for the second time in less than a month -- I found out that one of his tech ideas had essentially become reality. I'm about to blog about it. Maybe a V.C. needs to start reading Swanwick?

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Derek Skaletsky — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:06:46 -0000

I will add one a bit off topic. Stephen King's best work: ON WRITING. He calls it a Memoir on the Craft and it's f'ing great. It's not about business...it's about becoming an artist in your craft regardless of the insurmountable odds and challenges (who would have bet that a broke, no-name writer working on a mediocre typewriter, from his two room trailer home would become the most prolific genre author in the world...not even Fred would have made that investment!)

I recommend it whenever I can.

I would also recommend a more traditional book, FIRST BREAK ALL THE RULES.

Next topic: Movies for Entrepreneurs!! I'll get it started with just a few:

GODFATHER II
HUDSUCKER PROXY
BRAVEHEART and of course...
THE JERK

Seriously, though, the best move for entrepreneurs was a small documentary called AMERICAN MOVIE. Watch it. You won't be sorry...

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GG — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:56:45 -0000

What a good thread ...

Journey to the East also by Hesse is a great commentary on leadership - a bit hard to reread once you know the truth about Leo ...

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javajames — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:54:54 -0000

If we were to categorize the different entrepreneurial books, what categories would you use? This is not easy because entrepreneurs wear so many hats and posess many qualities. But, if we wanted to pick 5 categories or less for entrepreneurial books, what would they be? I'll post mine later.

Re: Books For Entrepreneurs

fredwilson — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:02:28 -0000

Yup. This thread drifted as it went on like most threads