Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Venture Investing

Investment styles

Backing young private companies on the understanding that most will fail and the winners are unbounded, so the portfolio is underwritten for one outcome to return the fund. Everything that looks reckless about it - high entry prices, unproven markets, founder deference - follows from that asymmetry rather than from optimism. Its discipline is refusing to average: each new deal must be judged as if the previous nine had not happened.

Books 13Experts 5Recommenders 91Resources 5

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  1. The Power LawSebastian Mallaby, 2022
  2. Secrets of Sand Hill RoadScott Kupor, 2019
  3. Venture DealsBrad Feld, Jason Mendelson, 2011
The Innovator's DilemmaThe Innovator's Dilemma
T1 The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why well-run firms lose to cheaper, worse products that enter at the market's bottom.

“Awesome book. May move soon to my Top Ten List. If anything will keep CEOs awake at night, reading this book certainly will.” — Mohnish Pabrai

Source: Mohnish's Bookshelf — Books on Sales & Marketing, entry 66

Recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai, Aaron Levie and 27 others

The Lean StartupThe Lean Startup
T1 The Lean Startup
Eric Ries · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Build, measure, learn: test what customers want with small experiments.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Sheryl Sandberg, Andrew Chen and 17 others

The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsThe Hard Thing About Hard Things
T1 The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Subtitled 'Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers'

“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 34 others

Zero to OneZero to One
T1 Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why startups should build something new and own a small market before growing.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Eric Weinstein and 36 others

The Power LawThe Power Law
T1 The Power Law
Sebastian Mallaby · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

Venture capital from Arthur Rock to SoftBank, and why a few big bets pay for all.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Anthony Pompliano and 4 others

The Four Steps to the EpiphanyThe Four Steps to the Epiphany
T2 The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steve Blank · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Customer development: how startups find customers before building the full product.

“Buy it, read it, keep it under your pillow and absorb it via osmosis.” — Marc Andreessen

Source: Book of the week: Best book for tech entrepreneurs this year, blog.pmarca.com

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen, Andrew Chen, Brad Feld and 2 others

Venture DealsVenture Deals
T2 Venture Deals
Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Venture financing term by term, for founders negotiating their first rounds.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Brad Feld, Gaby Goldberg and 4 others

Secrets of Sand Hill RoadSecrets of Sand Hill Road
T2 Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Scott Kupor · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

How venture capital works, from fund economics to term sheets, for founders.

Recommended by: Benedict Evans, Eric Schmidt, Gaby Goldberg and 2 others

Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources 199Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources 1999
T4 Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources 1999
Stanley E. Pratt · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the BirCreative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital
T4 Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital
Spencer E. Ante · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Georges Doriot, who showed that investing in small, risky firms could pay.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Angel InvestingAngel Investing
T4 Angel Investing
David S. Rose · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Reid Hoffman

Masters of Corporate Venture Capital
T4 Masters of Corporate Venture Capital
Andrew Romans · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Cynthia Johnson

Capital Evolution: The New American Economy
T4 Capital Evolution: The New American Economy
Seth Levine
Goodreads

Recommended by: Brad Feld

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