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Re: How to think like an entrepreneur, wherever you are

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Post by rstocker99 »

davidw wrote: post #7
ahoyhere wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hacker News is cherrypicking. :) Nobody here seems to read 20- to 30-year-old business books (except possibly me).

One of my favorite business books is 'Growing a Business' by Paul Hawken. It's from the 80ies, but much of his advice would look quite at home in a blog post by 37signals or some such.

This book is fantastic. It's a great book for bootstrappers.

I believe I ran across it on Fog Creek's book list which has some other good books as well.

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

Re: How to think like an entrepreneur, wherever you are

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Post by ahoyhere »

david927 wrote: post #8
ahoyhere wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hacker News is cherrypicking. :) Nobody here seems to read 20- to 30-year-old business books (except possibly me).

I would be careful to underestimate HN. The odds are better that there are people here who wrote 20- to 30-year-old business books.

That sounds nice, but on what reasoning do you base it? If I'm missing people, I'd sure like to know.

Re: How to think like an entrepreneur, wherever you are

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Post by hboon »

davidw wrote: post #7
ahoyhere wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hacker News is cherrypicking. :) Nobody here seems to read 20- to 30-year-old business books (except possibly me).

One of my favorite business books is 'Growing a Business' by Paul Hawken. It's from the 80ies, but much of his advice would look quite at home in a blog post by 37signals or some such.

Not available on B&N and Amazon as eBook. Sigh.

Re: How to think like an entrepreneur, wherever you are

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Post by sabat »

ahoyhere wrote: post #5
scrrr wrote: post #2

"Read. A lot. Don’t cherrypick things that seem to apply to you — read it all." <- That is why I read Hacker News.

Hacker News is cherrypicking. :) Nobody here seems to read 20- to 30-year-old business books (except possibly me).

The Magic of Thinking Big (David Schwartz), from the 1960s IIRC, is great.

Re: How to think like an entrepreneur, wherever you are

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Post by [deleted] »

ahoyhere wrote: post #12
david927 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would be careful to underestimate HN. The odds are better that there are people here who wrote 20- to 30-year-old business books.

That sounds nice, but on what reasoning do you base it? If I'm missing people, I'd sure like to know.

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Re: How to think like an entrepreneur, wherever you are

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Post by brlewis »

Founders at Work is a good book of web startup case studies. Are there others?

What I really want is a place where people who run web startups post, "here's something I did to improve my product" and "here's something I did to reach my market" with specifics about their product and market. That's how I could build a mental database of "chunks".

HN is often too high-level (acquisitions, financing) or too low-level (programming techniques) and not right at that chunk level.

Re: How to think like an entrepreneur, wherever you are

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Post by nadam »

ahoyhere wrote: post #5
scrrr wrote: post #2

"Read. A lot. Don’t cherrypick things that seem to apply to you — read it all." <- That is why I read Hacker News.

Hacker News is cherrypicking. :) Nobody here seems to read 20- to 30-year-old business books (except possibly me).

I've read some Peter Drucker.

It seems I am not alone:

quite a lot of results when typing this into google:

site:news.ycombinator.com Peter Drucker

Re: How to think like an entrepreneur, wherever you are

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Post by [deleted] »

davidw wrote: post #7
ahoyhere wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hacker News is cherrypicking. :) Nobody here seems to read 20- to 30-year-old business books (except possibly me).

One of my favorite business books is 'Growing a Business' by Paul Hawken. It's from the 80ies, but much of his advice would look quite at home in a blog post by 37signals or some such.

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Re: How to think like an entrepreneur, wherever you are

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Post by minouye »

brlewis wrote: post #17

Founders at Work is a good book of web startup case studies. Are there others? What I really want is a place where people who run web startups post, "here's something I did to improve my product" and "here's something I did to reach my market" with specifics about their product and market. That's how I could build a mental database of "chunks". HN is often too high-level (acquisitions, financing) or too low-level (pr…

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