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- 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
Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey Moore
One Minute Manager (but only if you've never had management experience)
How to Get Rich - Felix Dennis
Differentiate or Die - Jack Trout
and of course...
Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston
Hackers and Painters - Paul Graham
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/
"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...
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…
Difference between God and Larry Ellison... is that God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison