The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
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One of the best business books I've read for a long while.
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Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry
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Inspiring story on how Marc Benioff built Salesforce.com. Benioff sounds slightly crazy, but that's probably what it takes. Recommended for anyone running a start-up (especially if you're in B2B like we are).
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
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Recommended by Marc Benioff in the same sentence as The Innovator's Dilemma. Which means I'll have to check it out.
Crossing the Chasm
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Bought this recently after having it on my to-do list for a long time. One of the best business books I've read - it's actually quite funny and entertaining. A must for anyone running a tech start-up.
Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves
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If this book becomes a best-seller, the author knows what he's talking about. Otherwise, he hasn't managed to create a viral loop. (Current Amazon sales rank: 10,649).
Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
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Writing a business plan and therefore temporarily liberating this Michael Porter (HBS guru and superstar) title from the shelf. Not sure I could be bothered to ever read this from cover to cover ... but the introduction is always helpful.
Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
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Bought this instead of Innovator's Solution. In a sense it reads like a (slightly dry) thriller. Essential for people interested in the business of disruptive technology.
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
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An interview with the author on Peter Day's radio program on BBC World convinced me this is worth buying. The UK version is called "What they teach you at Harvard Business School" and the author is fairly skeptical of the MBA concept ... as one probably should be.
Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model
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Is it just me or do all roads lead to Clayton Christensen? The Harvard Business Review podcast had an interview with CC about "business model innovation" which seems to be what this title is about. An interview on the Business Week podcast sold me this one. (Anyone notice a pattern?)
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