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Best Books For a Startup?

#1
I think this is an interesting topic. Most likely it's been done already. Anyway, here's my list:

- Monk and the Riddle- Randy Komisar (You HAVE to read this, it puts it in the right perspective. Randy is a genius)

- Paypal Wars

- Founders at Work- Jessica Livingston

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#4
Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki

How to Get Rich - Felix Dennis

Differentiate or Die - Jack Trout

and of course...

Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston

Hackers and Painters - Paul Graham

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#5

A nice compliment to the books is a "startup dot com" documentary. It has a lot of dot-com era specifics, but it is very enlightening nonetheless. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/

for sure, really good movie. theres also a movie on kozmo called edreams. that i havent seen yet :-(.

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#7
Founders at Work (of course)

"Best Practices"-type books that cover the tools and technology the startup is using, whether its Textmate, Unix, Subversion, whatever. Becoming more efficient is never a bad thing.

I'd also add books on management and dealing with people:

- The Art of Speedreading People - Tieger

- Behind Closed Doors - Rothman, Derby

- The Mythical Man Month - Brooks

- Most if not all the books on Joel Spolsky's "MBA Curriculum":

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FogCreekMBACurriculum...

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#9

Founders at Work (of course) "Best Practices"-type books that cover the tools and technology the startup is using, whether its Textmate, Unix, Subversion, whatever. Becoming more efficient is never a bad thing. I'd also add books on management and dealing with people: - The Art of Speedreading People - Tieger - Behind Closed Doors - Rothman, Derby - The Mythical Man Month - Brooks - Most if not all the books on Joel…

WOW, Joel Spolsky's list is great. A lot of books on there that I didn't mention above that I've read. Funniest book title:

Difference between God and Larry Ellison... is that God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison

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#10
I recommend "The Design of Everyday Things" (formely "The Psychology of Everyday Things") by Donald Norman. It's kind of dated and it's focused on product design, but it has some very good ideas about making products that are easy to use and understand.
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