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

• Do More Faster by Brad Feld and David Cohen
• 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 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
• Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston

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
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Robert Bach

Product Development

• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
• 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

• Venture Deals by Jason Mendelson & Brad Feld
• The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
• Startup Weekend by Marc Nager, Clint Nelsen, and Franck Nouyrigat
• 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
• The Business of Venture Capital: Mahendra Ramsinghani
• Mastering the VC Game: Jeff Bussgang