My apologies for the pretentious title. I will try to keep this one short. I’ve put together a short list of required readings for anyone thinking about jumping into the internet-startup world.
A little backstory: I wrote this post out of frustration about a person I did business with a while back. We started an internet related side project just because we had mutual friends and both thought “hey, we should start something together”. The problem was, the project was in my industry, not his. I quickly learned that he was content acting like the kid in school who never did any work during group projects. Although he tried to talk the talk (“game driven design” this, “revenue based business model”, that), it was clear that he had no desire to actually learn about what we were doing.
After weeks of trying to get him caught up on some basic principles I wrote this list. I’ve since fired this person and only work with people who know what they are talking about (Whoa, there goes the pretentiousness again! Sorry!). Anyway, here is the VERY BASIC (and probably obvious to most of you) list:
- The Art of the Start – Guy Kawasaki
- Getting Real – 37Signals
- The 4-Hour Workweek – Tim Ferriss
- Rework – Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Paul Graham’s Essays – They are ALL good but I recommend start, ideas, and die first.
- Mashable and TechCrunch – These blogs can be overwhelming but reading them once in a while will help you know what’s going on.
The internet-startup world is an incredibly exciting place! Reading the above literature will stoke your excitement and make you less of an a*shole! This is just the tip of the iceberg.
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