The Soul Of A New Machine56 reviews Tracy Kidder Back Bay Books, 2000 Start-up culture + Engineers are people, too! + Excellent View on an Old Topic + Good read + Tremendous piece of writing.             Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still ...73 reviews Robert X. Cringely Collins Business, 1996 Boys will be Boys! + Real Genius Writes in Three Mental Dimensions + Excellent !!! The history of computer business + "Accidental Empires" is not exactly an appropriate title + A fun gossip column that captures the times             Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want28 reviews Curtis R. Carlson, William W. Wilmot Crown Business, 2006 A Guidebook for Serious Innovation Practitioners + Conference Attendee + Business focused "innovation" as opposed to waste of time & money + Read the first half             EBoys2 reviews Randall E. Stross Texere Publishing,US, 2002 Irresistible, Essential Reading for Entrepreneurs + Hubris meets Homoeroticism Most people who want to found a new business dream about getting venture capital en route to going public. At least a third of these people who approach venture capital firms do not have any contacts to get them a hearing at venture capital firms. Even those who do will find the odds are long. ...             Crossing the Chasm94 reviews Geoffrey A. Moore Collins Business, 2002 Crossing the Chasm + Surprisingly Real + How companies "grow up" I've bought copies of Crossing the Chasm for two customers and one associate. I guess that means I'm impressed. Few books, IMHO, can have a profound "life altering" effect on a business. E-Myth Revisited was one. This is another. It provides a very well thought out and persuasive strategy for ...             Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure46 reviews Jerry Kaplan Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996 Classic startup tale + An adventure in school of hard knocks + Incredible overview / warning of the startup process More than twenty years have passed since GO Corporation was founded (1987), but the lessons described by Jerry Kaplan still ring true today - the name of the company might as well be any new Web 2.0 startup. How do you turn an idea into a company? The financing, the partnership dance, working with ...             Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance40 reviews Michael E. Porter Free Press, 1998 Competitive Advantage by Michael Porter + Business School Classic + Pivotal contribution to management literature + Strategy Bible + Mr.             The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business ...158 reviews Clayton M. Christensen Collins Business, 2003 Disrupt your competitors, not your customers! + every product manager must read this + No Dilemma Here With the Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen delivers a very powerful analysis of the role of innovation in gaining market leadership. The question raised is whether market leadership can be sustained through innovation alone. Indeed, the core of the Innovator's Dilemma illustrates how ...             High Tech Start-up: The Complete How-to Handbook for Creating Successful New High Tech Companies50 reviews John L. Nesheim Login Publishers Consortium, 1993 A course on entrepreneurship + Great book for entrepreneurs considering a start-up! + Full of information + O verwhelming Info + Start Up Business Bible             The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture98 reviews John Battelle Portfolio Hardcover, 2005 Great Read + "Search" begins quest for more answers. + A good overview of Internet Search and the companies involved + great book at a great price             Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure46 reviews Jerry Kaplan Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996 Classic startup tale + An adventure in school of hard knocks + Incredible overview / warning of the startup process More than twenty years have passed since GO Corporation was founded (1987), but the lessons described by Jerry Kaplan still ring true today - the name of the company might as well be any new Web 2.0 startup. How do you turn an idea into a company? The financing, the partnership dance, working with ...             The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business ...158 reviews Clayton M. Christensen Collins Business, 2003 Disrupt your competitors, not your customers! + every product manager must read this + No Dilemma Here With the Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen delivers a very powerful analysis of the role of innovation in gaining market leadership. The question raised is whether market leadership can be sustained through innovation alone. Indeed, the core of the Innovator's Dilemma illustrates how ...             Crossing the Chasm94 reviews Geoffrey A. Moore Collins Business, 2002 Crossing the Chasm + Surprisingly Real + How companies "grow up" I've bought copies of Crossing the Chasm for two customers and one associate. I guess that means I'm impressed. Few books, IMHO, can have a profound "life altering" effect on a business. E-Myth Revisited was one. This is another. It provides a very well thought out and persuasive strategy for ...             Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still ...73 reviews Robert X. Cringely Collins Business, 1996 Boys will be Boys! + Real Genius Writes in Three Mental Dimensions + Excellent !!! The history of computer business + "Accidental Empires" is not exactly an appropriate title + A fun gossip column that captures the times             Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want28 reviews Curtis R. Carlson, William W. Wilmot Crown Business, 2006 A Guidebook for Serious Innovation Practitioners + Conference Attendee + Business focused "innovation" as opposed to waste of time & money + Read the first half             High Tech Start-up: The Complete How-to Handbook for Creating Successful New High Tech Companies50 reviews John L. Nesheim Login Publishers Consortium, 1993 A course on entrepreneurship + Great book for entrepreneurs considering a start-up! + Full of information + O verwhelming Info + Start Up Business Bible             EBoys2 reviews Randall E. Stross Texere Publishing,US, 2002 Irresistible, Essential Reading for Entrepreneurs + Hubris meets Homoeroticism Most people who want to found a new business dream about getting venture capital en route to going public. At least a third of these people who approach venture capital firms do not have any contacts to get them a hearing at venture capital firms. Even those who do will find the odds are long. ...             Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance40 reviews Michael E. Porter Free Press, 1998 Competitive Advantage by Michael Porter + Business School Classic + Pivotal contribution to management literature + Strategy Bible + Mr.             The Soul Of A New Machine56 reviews Tracy Kidder Back Bay Books, 2000 Start-up culture + Engineers are people, too! + Excellent View on an Old Topic + Good read + Tremendous piece of writing.             The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture98 reviews John Battelle Portfolio Hardcover, 2005 Great Read + "Search" begins quest for more answers. + A good overview of Internet Search and the companies involved + great book at a great price