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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Entrepreneurship and the Economy

Entrepreneurship and Startups

These books examine entrepreneurship at the level of a city, country or economy: startup ecosystems, national innovation records, development and the history of enterprise.

Books 31Experts 4Recommenders 17

Start here

  1. The Cathedral and the BazaarEric S. Raymond, 1999
  2. Creating Modern CapitalismThomas K. McCraw, 1997
  3. Boulevard of Broken DreamsJosh Lerner, 2009
  4. Start-Up NationDan Senor, Saul Singer, 2009
  5. MakersChris Anderson, 2013
The Cathedral and the BazaarThe Cathedral and the Bazaar
T1 The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Eric S. Raymond · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Essays on open-source software and its model of collaborative development.

Recommended by: Paul Graham, Ryan Holiday

Creating Modern CapitalismCreating Modern Capitalism
T2 Creating Modern Capitalism
Thomas K. McCraw · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Britain, Germany, Japan and the US each built their own form of capitalism.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Boulevard of Broken DreamsBoulevard of Broken Dreams
T2 Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Josh Lerner · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why most government efforts to build venture capital sectors fail.

Start-Up NationStart-Up Nation
T2 Start-Up Nation
Dan Senor, Saul Singer · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why Israel produces so many tech start-ups, from military service to immigration.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan

MakersMakers
T2 Makers
Chris Anderson · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

How 3D printing and other tools let anyone start a manufacturing business.

Recommended by: Jack Ma

Recapturing the Spirit of EnterpriseRecapturing the Spirit of Enterprise
T3 Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise
George Gilder · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

Supply-side case for entrepreneurs as the actual source of growth

“on how economic systems that encourage aggressive entrepreneurship build the most for the benefit of the most” — Marc Andreessen

Source: @pmarca, companion thread to 'It's Time to Build'

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

China's DisruptorsChina's Disruptors
T3 China's Disruptors
Edward Tse · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Chinese private champions including Alibaba actually built scale.

Digital Kenya
T3 Digital Kenya
Bitange Ndemo, Tim Weiss · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Kenya's tech startups and M-Pesa grew, with interviews with their founders.

The Gig Economy
T3 The Gig Economy
Diane Mulcahy · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

A worker's guide to the gig economy and how platforms price labour.

The Longevity EconomyThe Longevity Economy
T3 The Longevity Economy
Joseph F. Coughlin · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

What older consumers want and buy, against the stereotypes firms design for.

The Origin and Evolution of New BusinessesThe Origin and Evolution of New Businesses
T4 The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses
Amar V. Bhide · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned ConsumerBrand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell
T4 Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell
Nancy F. Koehn · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: ErThe Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
T4 The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
C.K. Prahalad · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

How companies can serve the world's poor profitably and reduce poverty in doing so.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Making Silicon ValleyMaking Silicon Valley
T4 Making Silicon Valley
Christophe Lecuyer · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

One Billion Customers: Lessons from the FronOne Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China
T4 One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China
James McGregor · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Screw Business As UsualScrew Business As Usual
T4 Screw Business As Usual
Richard Branson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Brett Adcock, Elon Musk

India Inside: The Emerging Innovation ChalleIndia Inside: The Emerging Innovation Challenge to the West
T4 India Inside: The Emerging Innovation Challenge to the West
Nirmalya Kumar, Phanish Puranam · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Startup CommunitiesStartup Communities
T4 Startup Communities
Brad Feld · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Subtitled 'Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City'

The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are
T4 The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy
Philip Auerswald · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

How entrepreneurs spread four centuries of progress to the world's excluded majority.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Startup RisingStartup Rising
T4 Startup Rising
Christopher M. Schroeder · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

How entrepreneurs and tech investors are building companies in the Middle East.

Recommended by: Andrew Chen, Brad Feld

Where the Jobs Are
T4 Where the Jobs Are
John Dearie, Courtney Geduldig · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Brad Feld

Smart People Should Build ThingsSmart People Should Build Things
T4 Smart People Should Build Things
Andrew Yang · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Reid Hoffman

The Power to CompeteThe Power to Compete
T4 The Power to Compete
Hiroshi Mikitani, Ryoichi Mikitani · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Rakuten's founder and his economist father debate how Japan can compete again.

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai

The Misfit EconomyThe Misfit Economy
T4 The Misfit Economy
Alexa Clay, Kyra Maya Phillips · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Jason Fried

The Third WaveThe Third Wave
T4 The Third Wave
Steve Case · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Alfred Lin, Brad Feld, George Hatzis and 1 other

The Innovation Blind SpotThe Innovation Blind Spot
T4 The Innovation Blind Spot
Ross Baird · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Brad Feld

Thou Shalt InnovateThou Shalt Innovate
T4 Thou Shalt Innovate
Avi Jorisch · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Case studies of Israeli technologies and how they were commercialised.

The Prosperity ParadoxThe Prosperity Paradox
T4 The Prosperity Paradox
Clayton Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, Karen Dillon · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads
Space Is Open for BusinessSpace Is Open for Business
T4 Space Is Open for Business
Robert C. Jacobson · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

One of the few attempts at a survey of the commercial sector.

The Startup Community Way
T4 The Startup Community Way
Brad Feld, Ian Hathaway · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Entrepreneurial ConnectionThe Entrepreneurial Connection
T4 The Entrepreneurial Connection
Gurmeet Naroola
Goodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

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