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If you want to learn how to build good products or start yur own company, Tony Fadell recommends listening to Tony Fadell

If you want to learn how to build good products or start yur own company, Tony Fadell recommends listening to Tony Fadell

Tony Fadell – Build

Shamelessly self-aggrandizing autobiography dressed-up as self-help book for entrepreneurs.

PayPal has been successful first and foremost because of ruthless competitiveness and a maniacal work ethic

PayPal has been successful first and foremost because of ruthless competitiveness and a maniacal work ethic

Jimmy Soni – The Founders

In hindsight, the early internet was shockingly primitive.

Compared to the Chinese tech scene, Silicon Valley is slow and complacent

Compared to the Chinese tech scene, Silicon Valley is slow and complacent

Kai-Fu Lee – AI Superpowers

Former Google China Chief explains why China will win the AI race when it comes to applications of deep learning in the physical world.

Use ‘validated learning’ to launch your ‘MVP’, and ‘pivot’ when your ‘value and growth hypotheses’ are falsified

Use ‘validated learning’ to launch your ‘MVP’, and ‘pivot’ when your ‘value and growth hypotheses’ are falsified

Eric Ries – The lean startup

A staple of startup literature, advocating a deceivingly simple concept which is hard to get right (as is proven by the examples of startups that have failed since publication).

Every visonary entrepreneur needs an integrator to assure his/her ideas materialize

Every visonary entrepreneur needs an integrator to assure his/her ideas materialize

Gino Wickman – Rocket fuel

By far the more readable book on org structure that I have come across.

Theranos’ downfall shows a reality distortion field gone wrong

Theranos’ downfall shows a reality distortion field gone wrong

John Carreyrou – Bad blood

What seems to have started as entrepreneurial over-confidence ended in a web of fraud and lies.

 

To make the difference you have to do something truly different and definitive

To make the difference you have to do something truly different and definitive

Peter Thiel – Zero to One

Rich repository of one-liners for those who seek to make bold moves.

The success of Uber and AirBnB is (partly) due to structural exploration of legal limits

The success of Uber and AirBnB is (partly) due to structural exploration of legal limits

Brad Stone – The upstarts

Most illustrative are the descriptions of failed competitors, which show importance of both luck and ruthlessness.

Exposure  therapy is highly effective to overcome fear of rejection

Exposure  therapy is highly effective to overcome fear of rejection

Jia Jiang – Rejection proof

Contageous enthusiasm of authentic curiosity comes across best in his Jia Jiang’s youtube videos (cf. Olympic rings).

Ashlee Vance – Elon Musk

Ashlee Vance – Elon Musk

With the cash you get from selling PayPal you can stay solvant longer than the market can stay irrational.

Do not read the Dutch translation: Henk Popken did a crappy job.

Elmira Bayrasli – From the other side of the world

Elmira Bayrasli – From the other side of the world

Success factors for tech start-ups in emerging economies differ greatly from those in developed countries.

Some well chosen case studies; but with too little explanation on ‘what’ they did and too many stories about how they did it.

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