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Re: Ask YC: What are some the best business books?

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Post by olefoo » Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 1:30 AM UTC

Information Rules (Varian and Shapiro)

Economics of network industries (Shy)

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Mackay)

The information Rules book belongs on your bookshelf if you want to understand how information goods are priced and how competition works in information driven industries. (Varian is now google's chief economist.)

The second one goes deep on the math of price-setting and standards wars.

And Mackay's work is a classic study of financial bubbles and panics.

Re: Ask YC: What are some the best business books?

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Post by phil_KartMe » Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 1:44 AM UTC

-Art of the Start

-How to win friends and influence people [this title pains me]

-Tipping point

-Design of every day things [not business..but product]

Re: Ask YC: What are some the best business books?

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Post by wh » Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 3:01 AM UTC

fusionman wrote: post #8

are you looking for business textbooks, books written by business leaders or Startup business books?

any business books which are pleasure to read.

Re: Ask YC: What are some the best business books?

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Post by comatose_kid » Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 3:33 AM UTC

how to get rich by Richard dennis.

Softwar - A bio on Larry Ellison, one where he writes footnotes responding to the biographer's text

Made in japan - Akio Morita and sony - written by Akio Morita - founder describes early days of the company

Re: Ask YC: What are some the best business books?

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Post by boardrider_99 » Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 3:46 AM UTC

Art of the Start- Guy Kawasaki Go It Alone- Bruce Judson (Yale professor of Management) Mark Cuban's blog (blogmaverick or something like that) Anything by or about Warren Buffet

Re: Ask YC: What are some the best business books?

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Post by known » Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 7:39 AM UTC

http://personalmba.com/recommended-business-books/

Re: Ask YC: What are some the best business books?

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Post by fusionman » Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 2:13 PM UTC

wh wrote: post #13

fusionman wrote: post #8

are you looking for business textbooks, books written by business leaders or Startup business books?

any business books which are pleasure to read.

You can see my comment below for a short list. Art of the Start is a great place to begin. It covers everything with a very pragmatic approach and is very easy to read. "The Power of Unfair Advantage" is a great book that I don't often hear people talking about. I just don't think it's that well known. I highly recommend it.

Re: Ask YC: What are some the best business books?

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Post by wh » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 2:56 AM UTC

fusionman wrote: post #17

wh wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

any business books which are pleasure to read.

You can see my comment below for a short list. Art of the Start is a great place to begin. It covers everything with a very pragmatic approach and is very easy to read. "The Power of Unfair Advantage" is a great book that I don't often hear people talking about. I just don't think it's that well known. I highly recommend it.

Thanks!

Re: Ask YC: What are some the best business books?

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Post by tbrooks » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 4:16 AM UTC

The best business book I've ever read is The Seven Day Weekend by Ricardo Semler. I was turned onto Semler after Jason Fried recommended the book on one of 37signals live sessions.

http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Day-Weekend-Changing-Work-Works/...

Re: Ask YC: What are some the best business books?

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Post by rodrigo » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 3:38 PM UTC

Founders at Work (completely agree w PG on this), also The Undercover Economist, for economic indsigths. I found in this book a LOT of things to take home, business and entrepeneurial wise.