Distinguish capital that builds value from capital that merely shuffles ownership.
The UK Is The Most Unequal High-Income Country In The World · Paul Collier
Find outstanding growth stocks by investigating what competitors, customers, and suppliers really think
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits · Philip A. Fisher
Describe, design, and reinvent any business model through nine interconnected building blocks
Business Model Generation · Alexander Osterwalder
Build profitable products alone by shipping rapidly, using boring technology, and letting users guide development
Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440 · Pieter Levels
Replace goal-setting with system-building to increase your odds of success across every dimension
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big · Scott Adams
Build and launch a profitable business in a weekend by starting with community and solving real problems
Gumroad founder's framework for a bootstrapped business - Sahil Lavingia, Gumroad · Sahil Lavingia
The most valuable businesses are built on truths that most people disagree with or have not yet discovered
Peter Thiel Interview Full Episode The Tim Ferriss Show Podcast · Peter Thiel
Turn personal curiosity into public value to build an audience from zero
How I Grew from 0 to 500k Followers In Under 2 Years - Sahil Bloom · Sahil Bloom
Build and launch profitable products alone using speed as your moat
This Is What Real Freedom Looks Like · Pieter Levels
There is no such thing as failure — only life trying to move you in another direction
Oprah Winfrey Harvard Commencement Speech · Oprah Winfrey
If each new user makes the product more valuable for all users, you win
Bill Gurley — All Things Business and Investing · Bill Gurley
When the future is uncertain, let strategy emerge through learning; when the path is clear, execute deliberately
The Innovator's Solution · Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor
Resources, Processes, and Values determine what an organization can and cannot do
The Innovator's Solution · Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor
Prepare your company like a Boy Scout before hitting the fundraising trail so that nothing slows down or kills your deal
Venture Deals: Be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist · Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
Understanding how VCs get paid, how their funds work, and what drives their behavior gives founders an information advantage
Venture Deals: Be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist · Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
Breakthrough innovation often comes from repurposing existing ideas, tools, or traits for entirely new and unintended uses
Where Good Ideas Come From · Steven Johnson
A systematic evaluation of 17+ value capture models to choose or innovate the framework by which your venture extracts revenue from the value it creates for customers.
Disciplined Entrepreneurship · Bill Aulet
A systematic, customer-driven approach to launching an innovation-based venture by working through 24 discrete steps grouped into six themes.
Disciplined Entrepreneurship · Bill Aulet
Scale your business by mastering the four critical decision areas: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash.
Scaling Up · Verne Harnish
Structure experiments to systematically reduce business risk
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) · Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith
Move from paper fit to market fit to business model fit
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) · Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith
Evaluate five constant factors before any competitive engagement
The Art of War · Sun Tzu
A diagnostic tool to determine whether a new technology will topple industry leaders
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail · Clayton M. Christensen
Five steps your brain already uses to plan -- purpose, vision, brainstorm, organize, next action
Getting Things Done · David Allen
Solve new problems by mapping them to distant but structurally similar ones
Range · David Epstein
Disrupt markets
Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic · Ashlee Vance
Embracing innovation and risk-taking
Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic · Ashlee Vance
Explore, don't optimize
The Science & Practice of Movement | Ido Portal · Andrew Huberman
Adapt your identity and skills to survive and thrive in any environment.
Transform Pain & Trauma Into Creative Expression | David Choe · Andrew Huberman
Validate your venture against seven critical dimensions before building
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future · Peter Thiel & Blake Masters