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Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Favorite Books On Entrepreneurship?

Posted by BeauHD on from the book-worm dept.

An anonymous reader writes: There are excellent well-known books like Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, but I find some of the lesser-known books about tech entrepreneurship very interesting, like A Triumph of Genius about Edwin Land of Polaroid or Riding the Runaway Horse about An Wang of Wang Laboratories. Also, there's Fast Forward by Lardner about VHS/Betamax. What books regarding entrepreneurship would Slashdotters recommend?

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  1. Re:After over thirty years of start-ups... by Zaelath · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Completely relevant recent XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1827/ (Survivorship Bias)

    i.e. there's plenty of people that have done the same initial things as anyone who wrote these books and didn't get lucky. You might as well read a book on how someone won the lottery.

  2. How it goes wrong:Commodore, A Company on the EdgE by mccalli · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This one is a great book about the early days of getting computer companies established. The significance of Commodore is often overlooked these days, but at the time they were trouncing the likes of Apple.

    Unfortunately, Jack Tramiel never really evolved into a big company player and kept small practices like starving suppliers etc. going. The later nepotism didn't help much either. This is a fascinating book of how a company that should have become what Apple is today, with tech way ahead of its time, fell into ruin. Well worth the read.