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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Startup Method and Playbooks

Entrepreneurship and Startups

These books set out how to start a company: finding the idea, testing it with customers, building the first product and reaching product-market fit.

Books 19Experts 7Recommenders 53

Start here

  1. Business Model GenerationAlexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, 2010
  2. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the FuturePeter Thiel, Blake Masters, 2014
  3. Hackers & PaintersPaul Graham, 2004
  4. The Art of the Start 2.0Guy Kawasaki, 2015
  5. Super FoundersAli Tamaseb, 2021
Business Model GenerationBusiness Model Generation
T1 Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Business Model Canvas: nine blocks for how a firm creates and captures value.

Recommended by: Nir Eyal

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to BuZero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
T1 Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters · 2014
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Why startups should build something new and own a small market before growing.

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

Hackers & PaintersHackers & Painters
T3 Hackers & Painters
Paul Graham · 2004
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Subtitled 'Big Ideas from the Computer Age'; collects early essays

Recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Ev Williams, Keith Rabois and 3 others

The Art of the Start 2.0The Art of the Start 2.0
T3 The Art of the Start 2.0
Guy Kawasaki · 2015
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Super FoundersSuper Founders
T3 Super Founders
Ali Tamaseb · 2021
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Data on 30,000 startups testing what predicts a billion-dollar outcome.

The Four Steps to the EpiphanyThe Four Steps to the Epiphany
T4 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

Do More FasterDo More Faster
T4 Do More Faster
Brad Feld, David G. Cohen · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Techstars lessons for accelerating a startup

Recommended by: Brad Feld

The Startup Owner's Manual
T4 The Startup Owner's Manual
Steve Blank · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

A step-by-step guide to finding customers, a market and product-market fit.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Matej Latin and 1 other

User Story MappingUser Story Mapping
T4 User Story Mapping
Jeff Patton · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Marty Cagan

Without Their PermissionWithout Their Permission
T4 Without Their Permission
Alexis Ohanian · 2013
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Recommended by: Eric Jorgenson, Garry Tan, Justin Kan

Talking to HumansTalking to Humans
T4 Talking to Humans
Giff Constable · 2014
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Recommended by: Ron Conway

Value Proposition DesignValue Proposition Design
T4 Value Proposition Design
Alexander Osterwalder · 2014
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Recommended by: John D Saunders

Startup OpportunitiesStartup Opportunities
T4 Startup Opportunities
Brad Feld, Sean Wise · 2015
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The Startup WayThe Startup Way
T4 The Startup Way
Eric Ries · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Aaron Levie, Paul Graham

Beyond the Prototype
T4 Beyond the Prototype
Douglas Ferguson · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Jake Knapp

Startups
T4 Startups
Chris Dixon
Goodreads

Recommended by: Brian Armstrong

Tech-Venture
T4 Tech-Venture
Mohan Sawhney
Goodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Entrepreneur's Manual: Business Start-Up
T4 The Entrepreneur's Manual: Business Start-Ups, Spin-Offs, and Innovative Management
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Recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Lean Entrepreneur
T4 The Lean Entrepreneur
Brant Cooper
Goodreads

Recommended by: Nat Eliason

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