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Category: Book Reviews
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English: Main locations of the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom Français : Principaux théâtres d'opérations de la Guerre de 1812 entre les États-Unis et le Royaume-Uni. Español: Principales teatros de operaciones de la Guerra de 1812 entre los Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Charles Morris'…
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English: King Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt, 1415 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Why should you read a book on a battle in France in 1415 to learn anything about start ups or supply chain? Here are a few reasons: Juliet Barker has written a book on Agincourt that's hard to put down–From Henry's clouded…
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Cover via Amazon Entrepreneurs have never had it easy. Gavin Weightman's fascinating journey (The Industrial Revolutionaries)on start ups from the Industrial Revolution into to early 1900's makes that very clear. Weightman traces entrepreneurial activity in Europe, America and Japan from 1776 until WW I, moving seamlessly between countries, inventions and people who helped make the…
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Image via Wikipedia Is it really worth reading a book on Warren Buffett's management style written by his daughter-in-law? The short answer is yes. Warren Buffett's Management Secrets is short, to the point and useful. Much of what drives Buffett's business success is common sense and the discipline to follow that common sense. Many of us…
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Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson's best seller Venture Deals-Be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist is the best book written so far on the subject of how an entrepreneur can survive the start up fund raising world with their dignity and perhaps their company intact. If you are an entrepreneur, or plan to be one,…
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Image via Wikipedia I am a big fan of Michael Lewis' writing, starting with Liar's Poker in the late 1980's, The New, New Thing and Money Ball in the early 2000's. And The Big Short is perhaps the best book he has ever written. If you want to understand what happened to Wall Street and our economy over…
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife David Liss' superb first novel, A Conspiracy of Paper, reaches back to London in the 1700s to wrap a mystery around the simultaneous emergence of venture capital and stock exchanges. One of the few people ever to turn a PhD thesis into a best selling book, Liss explores the criminal underbelly of the…
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Image by Adventures in Librarianshipvia Flickr Anyone interested in a fascinating account of the (fictionalized, but real in many ways) lives of entrepreneurs should pick up a copy of the Pulitzer Prize winner, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. Set in the 1930's, Kavalier and Clay are two cousins, one with a…
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Cover via Amazon I may be the last person in the business world to read John Kotter's Our Iceberg is Melting. I usually avoid parables and fables couched as business books. But I was asked to read the book as part of an ongoing transformation at one of the non-profits we consult with on a…
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I have been a fan of Blueprint to a Billion by David G. Thomson since the book was published. Executives in most of my portfolio companies have read the book and applied many of the principles. No billion dollar exits yet for Dave, but there's always hope. There have been a number of knock-off books…
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