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
VC Bloggers
Brad FeldJason Mendelson
Andrew Parker (USV)
Ask The VC
Baris Karadogan (Velocity)
Bijan Sabet (Spark)
Bill Burnham (Inductive)
Chris Fralic (First Round)
Christine Herron (First Round)
Dan Rua (Inflexion)
Daniel Cohen (Gemini)
David Beisel (Venrock)
David Cowan (Bessemer)
David Dufresne (JLA)
David Hornik (August)
Ed Sim (Dawntreader)
Eric Friedman (USV)
Foundry Group
Fred Destin (Atlas)
Fred Wilson (USV)
George Zachary (CRV)
Golden Horn Ventures
Guy Kawasaki (Garage)
Highway 12 Ventures
J Chen (CXO)
Jacob Ner-David (Jerusalem)
Jason Ball (Qualcomm)
Jeff Bussgang (Flybridge)
Jeff Clavier (SoftTech)
Jeff Joseph (Prescient)
Jeremy Levine (Bessemer)
John Thornton
Jonathan Seeber (Updata)
Josh Kopelman (First Round)
Justin Label (Bessemer)
Keith Benjamin (Levensohn)
Ken Gaebler (Gaebler)
Marc Averitt (Okapi)
Mark Davis (DFJ Gotham)
Mark Suster (GRP)
Matt McCall (DFJ Portage)
Matt Winn (Chrysalis)
Max Bleyleben (Kennet)
Michael Feinstein (Sempre)
Momentum Venture Management
Nic Brisbourn (DFJ Esprit)
Pascal Levensohn (Levensohn)
Paul Fisher (Advent)
Paul Jozefak (Neuhaus)
Paul Kedrosky (Ventures West)
PE Hub Blog
Philippe Botteri (Bessemer)
Rajil Kapoor (Mayfield)
Rich Moran (Venrock)
Richard Dale (Sigma)
Rick Segal (JLA)
Rob Day (@Ventures)
Rob Finn (Edison)
Rob Hayes (First Round)
Rob Schultz (IllinoisVENTURES)
Robert Goldberg (YL)
Ryan McIntyre (Foundry)
Sagi Rubin (Virgin)
Sarah Tavel (Bessemer)
Saul Klein (Index)
Seth Levine (Foundry)
Shantanu Bhagwat (Amadeus)
Sid Mohasseb (Venture Farm)
Simeon Simeonov (Polaris)
Steve Brotman (Greenhill)
Steve Jurvetson (DFJ)
Stu Phillips (Ridgelift)
Stuart Ellman and Eric Wiesen (RRE)
T.D. Klein (Legend)
TechFund Europe
Todd Dagres (Spark)
Tom Cole (Trinity)
Union Square Ventures
Vineet Buch (BlueRun)


