We have extensively mined the internet and have come up with a variety of books and articles covering a diverse variety of topics.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise
Books
- the other side of innovation – Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble
- Innovators Dilemma & Innovator Solution, Clayton Christensen
- The Future of Management – Gary Hamel
- Winning Through Innovation: a Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal, Charles O’Reilly
- The Sources of Innovation by Eric Von Hippel
- Unleashing the Idea Virus by Seth Godin
- Doing Business in the USA by Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP
Harvard Business Review Articles
- Darwin and the Demon: Innovating Within Established Enterprises, Geoffrey Moore: July/August 2004
- The Innovators DNA, Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton Christensen: Dec 2009
“War as Strategy” Books
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu, translated by Thomas Cleary, or the one by Griffith
- The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
- On War by Carl Von Clausewitz’s Everyman’s Library Series
- Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram and/or
- The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security by Grant T. Hammond
- Lanchester Strategy: An Introduction by Taoka and/or
- New Lanchester Strategy: Sales and Marketing Strategy for the Weak (New Lanchester Strategy) by Shinichi Yano, Kenichi Sato, Connie Prener
Marketing Communications Books
- Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind The 20th Anniversary Edition and The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk by Al Ries, Jack Trout
- All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath
- Relationship Marketing: Successful Strategies for the Age of the Customer by Regis McKenna
- Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends, and Friends into Customers and Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin
- Don’t Think of an Elephant! by George Lakoff
- Sway: the Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman
- Building the Marketing Plan: A Blue-print for Startups by Kipp Bodnar
- Viral Marketing by David Meeman Scott
Sales
- Predictable Revenue – Aaron Ross and MaryLou Tyler
- Secrets of Question Based Selling: How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results and It Only Takes 1% to Have a Competitive Edge in Sales by Thomas Freese
- Mastering the Complex Sale – Jeff Thull
- What Great Salespeople Do – Michael Bosworth
- Solution Selling: Creating Buyers in Difficult Selling Markets By Michael T. Bosworth
- The New Solution Selling: The Revolutionary Process That is Changing the Way People Sell
- The New Conceptual Selling: The Most Effective and Proven Method for Face-To-Face Sales Planning and The New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by the World’s Best Companies by Stephen E. Heiman, et. al.
- Spin Selling and the Spin Selling Fieldbook By Neil Rackham
- Lets Get Real or Lets Not Play by Mahan Khalsa
- Snap Selling – Speed Up Sales and Win More Business and Selling to Big Companies both by Jill Konrath
- Sandler Selling System
- Miller Heiman Sales Process Consulting & Training
- Baseline Selling: How to Become A Sales Superstar by Dave Kurlan
- The Complete Idiots Guide to Cold Calling by Keith Rosen
- The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing – by Nagle, Hogan & Zale
Startup Law and Finance
- An Introduction to Stock and Options – David Weekly
- The Entrepreneurs Guide to Business Law – by Constance Bagley and Craig Douchy
- Term Sheets & Valuations – An Inside Look at the Intricacies of Venture Capital by Alex Wilmerding Aspatore Books Staff, Aspatore.com
- Doing Business in the United States: A Guide to Key Tax Issues by PwC
- Coming to America: The Legal Basics by Fired Frank
- Legal Guide to Doing Business in the United States by Baker & Mckenzie
Silicon Valley/Regional Clusters
- Startup Communities – Brad Feld
- Regional Advantage and The New Argonauts – AnnaLee Saxenian
- Startup Nation – Dan Senor
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Josh Lerner
- The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford – Stuart W. Leslie
- Making Silicon Valley: Innovation & the Growth of High Tech – Charles Lecuyer
- Founders at Work – Jessica Livingston
- The Startup Playbook – David Kidder
- Geek Silicon Valley: The Inside Guide to Palo Alto, Stanford, et al.
- The Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley
- Engineer’s Guide to Silicon Valley Startups
- For Books on Silicon Valley History see here
Venture Capital
- Venture Deals: Be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist – by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
- Mastering the VC Game by Jeffrey Bussgang
- The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between VC’s and Entrepreneurs by William H. Draper
- Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet by Michael Wolff
- Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan
- Eboys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work by Randall E. Stross
- High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner’s Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars by Charles H. Ferguson
- Pitching Hacks: The Book from Venture Hacks
- American British Trade and Investment 2015: The Guide to Investing in the USA by BritishAmerican Business
- Investing in the USA: A Guide for Foreign Companies by KPMG
Venture Capital History
These books tell the story of the formation of the Venture Capital Industry.
- Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital – Spencer E. Ante
- Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories -Udayan Gupta
- Semiconductor Timeline to 1976: Semi and Don C. Hoefler
- The Startup Game – William Draper III
Startup Nuts & Bolts
- High Tech Start Up: The Complete Handbook for Creating Successful New High Tech Companies by John L. Nesheim
- Engineering Your Start-Up: A Guide for the High-Tech Entrepreneur by Michael L. Bair
- High-Tech Ventures: The Guide for Entrepreneurial Success by Gordon Bell
Startup Textbooks
- Technology Ventures – Tom Byers, Richard Dorf, Andrew Nelson
- New Venture Creation Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century and Business Plans That Work by Jeffry A. Timmons
- Entrepreneurship: Strategy and Resources – Marc J. Dollinger
- Launching New Ventures: An Entrepreneurial Approach – Kathleen R. Allen
- Entrepreneurship – Robert Hisrich, Michael Peters, Dean Shepherd
- Entrepreneurship – William D. Bygrave , Andrew Zacharakis
- Entrepreneurship: An Innovator’s Guide to Startups and Corporate Ventures – Marc H. Meyer, Frederick G. Crane
- Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures – Bruce R. Barringer
- Entrepreneurial Small Business – Jerome Katz
- Entrepreneurship: In a European Perspective – C.K. Volkmann, K.O. Tokarski and M. Granhagen
- Patterns of Entrepreneurship Management – Jack M. Kaplan, Anthony Warren
- Technology Entrepreneurship: Creating, Capturing and Protecting Value -Thomas N. Duening, Robert A. Hisrich, Michael A. Lechter
- Nurturing Science-based Ventures: An International Case Perspective – Ralf W. Seifert, Benoît F. Leleux, Chris L. Tucci
- Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook – Josh Lerner, Felda Hardymon, Ann Leamon
- Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies – Zenios, Makower, Yock,Brinton, Kumar, Denend, Krummel
Manufacturing
- The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt
- Lean Thinking by James Womack
- Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production by Taiicho Ohno.
- The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker
Presentation and Product Design
- Slid:eology and Resonate by Nancy Duarte
- The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity by Alan Cooper
- Getting Real by 37 Signals
Culture/Human Resources
- What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 and InGenious – Tina Seelig
- Good To Great and Built to Last by James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras
- The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First By Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers by James N. Baron, David Kreps
- The Founder Factor by Nancy Truitt Pierce
- The No Asshole Rule and Weird Ideas that Work and Good Boss, Bad Boss by Robert I. Sutton
- Hard Facts and The Knowing-Doing Gap by Robert I. Sutton and Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Competing on the Edge by Shona L. Brown and Katheleen M. Eisenhardt
- Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur by Stuart Skorman
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Business History (See here for Silicon Valley History)
- My Years with General Motors by Alfred Sloan
- Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost by Steve Blank
- Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors by David R. Farber
- A Ghost’s Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan’s My Years with General Motors by John McDonal
- The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors by Axel Madsen
- Billy, Alfred and General Motors: The Story of Two Unique Men by William Pelfrey
- The Nudist on the Late Shift by Po Bronson
- The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
- Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise – Alfred Chandler
- The Visible Hand – Alfred Chandler
Silicon Valley – Books
Terman/Shockley/Fairchild/Intel/National
- Fred Terman at Stanford – Stewart Gilmore
- IEEE Oral History – Fred Terman Associates
- Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley– Joel Shurkin
- Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor – Christophe Lecuyer and David Brock
- The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce – Leslie Berlin
- Spinoff: A Personal History of the Industry That Changed The World – Charles Sporck
Silicon Valley History
- Electronics in the West: the First Fifty Years – Jane Morgan
- The Origins of the Electronics Industry on the Pacific Coast– The Origins of the Electronics Industry on the Pacific Coast
- Revolution in Miniature: The History and Impact of Semiconductor Electronics – Ernest Braun
- Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford – Rebecca S. Lowen
- The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America – Paul Edwards
- Understanding Silicon Valley – Martin Kenney
- The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer – Jane Smiley
- How Silicon Valley Came to Be – Timothy Sturgeon
- The Inventor and the Pilot: Russell and Sigurd Varian – Dorothy Varian
- The Tube Guys – Norman Pond
- The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford – Stuart W. Leslie
- Making Silicon Valley: Innovation & the Growth of High Tech – Charles Lecuyer
- Dealers of Lightening: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age – Michael Hilzick
- Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 – AnnaLee Saxenian
- The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy – AnnaLee Saxenian
- Bill and Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World’s Greatest Company – Michael Malone
Books/Articles on the Entrepreneurial University
- Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First Century by Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein
- A University for the 21st Century – Duderstadt, J. J.
- Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education by Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades
- The Entrepreneurial College President by James L. Fisher and James V. Koch
- Leaders in the Crossroads: Success and Failure in the College Presidency by Stephen James Nelson
- Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation by Burton Clark
- Collegial Entrepreneurialism in Proactive Universities by Burton Clark
- Entrepreneurship and Small College Leadership. New Directions for Higher Education by Robert Peck
- The Entrepreneurial University: New Foundations for Collegiality, Autonomy and Achievement by Burton Clark
- The Emergence of Entrepreneurial Cultures in European Universities by John L. Davies
- Promoting Academic Expertise and Authority in an Entrepreneurial Culture by Craig McInnis
- Structural Barriers to Innovation in Traditional Universities by Jose-Gines Mora and Enrique Villarreal
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