Books
We read a lot. Here you’ll find our favorite books on entrepreneurship. We only recommend books that we have actually read (and we read a lot more than we actually recommend.)
Entrepreneurial Stories
- Blue Mountain by Susan Polis Schutz
- Carnegie by Peter Krass
- iCon by Jeffrey Young and William Simon
- iWoz by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith
- My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley by Ben Casnocha
- Starting Something by Wayne McVicker
- The Cure by Geeta Anand
- The MouseDriver Chronicles by John Lusk and Kyle Harrison
- The PayPal Wars by Eric Jackson
- The Search by John Battelle
Fiction (it’s ok to have some fun)
- JPod by Douglas Coupland
Philosophy
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Product Development
- Democratizing Innovation by Eric von Hippel
- FAB by Neil Gershenfeld
- Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
- Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky
Startup Company Tools
- The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
- Beyond Bullet Points by Cliff Atkinson
- Bootstrapping Your Business by Greg Gianforte and Marcus Gibson
- Term Sheets & Valuations by Alex Wilmerding
- The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law by Constance Bagley and Craig Dauchy
Strategy
- Blueprint to a Billion by David Thomson
- Partnering with Microsoft by Ted Dinsmore and Edward O’Connor
Venture Capital
- Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation by Andrew Metrick



