Great Reads for Start-ups

Software Stuff:

• Design Patterns – Enrich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
• Release it – Michael Nygaard
• Domain Driven Design – Eric Evans
• Ship It – Jared Richardson, William A. Gwaltney

Startup Stuff:

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany – Gary Blank
• Innovator’s’ Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
• Made to Stick – Chip & Dan Heath
• High-tech Ventures – Gordon Bell
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days – Jessica Livingston
• Jim Collins
  • Built to Last
  • Good to Great
• Geoffrey Moore
  • Crossing the Chasm
  • Inside the Tornado
  • The Gorilla Game
• The Sales Learning Curve – Mark Leslie and Charles Holloway
• How Startup Options (and Ownership) Works – Scott Kupor
• MIT EdX Course on Technology Entrepreneurship – Andy Palmer & Mike Stonebraker
• The Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action – Martin Ruef
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Peter F. Drucker
• Microservices – James Lewis and Martin Fowler
• Competing on Analytics – Tom Davenport

Career Management Stuff:

• The Alliance – Reid Hoffman
• Legacy – James Kerr

Database stuff:

• Readings in Database Systems – Mike Stonebraker & Joey Hellerstein
• What’s your data worth?  On Linkedin, Microsoft and the Value of User Data – Russell Walker

Others:

• Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand