Recommended Readings For High Tech CEO Entrepreneurs

Building A Successful Business
• Book, High Tech Start Up, "The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies", by John L. Nesheim
• Book, Living On The Fault Line, "Managing For Shareholders Value In Any Economy", by Geoffrey A. Moore
• Book, Marketing High Technology, "An Insiders View" by William H. Davidow
• Book, The Five Temptations of A CEO, "A Leadership Fable" by Patrick Lencioni
• Book, Presenting to Win, "The Art of Telling Your Story" by Jerry Weissman, Book
• Business plan VC Presentation Outline http://www.sequoiacap.com/ideas

• Article /Documents/RitesOfPassage.pdf

• Article /Documents/Educating_VC_Directors_final.pdf

• Article /Documents/VCJ The Open Innovation Dilemma for VCs.pdf

• Article in Harvard Business Review February 2006, The Founder’s Dilemma by Noam Wasserman, hbr.org, Reprint R0802G - “Most entrepreneurs want to make a lot of money and to run the show. New research shows that it’s tough to do both.”

• Article in Harvard Business School Business Working Knowledge Newsletter, "Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs" http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/3348.html
• Article on Business Models On The Web http://digitalenterprise.org/models/models.html

• Article in Harvard Business Review on Managing (Creating A Positive) Your Professional Image by Laura Morgan Roberts Image http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4860.html

• E-book Strategic_Role_Product_Management.pdf

• Book, Blueprint to a Billion, “7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth”, by David G. Thomson

Personal Success

 • Book, Success Built To Last, Creating A Life That Matters, by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson

 • Book, The How of Happiness, “A Scientific Approach To Getting The Life You Want” by Sonja Lyubomirsky

 • Book, Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes by William Bridges

 • Book, The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch

Personal Investing

 • Book,  Unconventional Success, “A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investing”, by David F. Swensen

 • Book, The Black Swan, “The Impact of the Highly Improbable”, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

 • Book, Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places, by Michael J. Mauboussin

 • Book, The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham