The startup game

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1. mitchelldeacon9Sep 2016
   Here is my short list of favorite books on finance and economics:

   FINANCIAL SECURITIES / BANKING / VENTURE CAPITAL

   Bruck, Connie (1988) Predator's Ball: Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and Rise of Junk Bond Raiders

   Draper, William (2011) Startup Game

   Graham, Benjamin and Jason Zweig (2006) Intelligent Investor, revised ed.

   _________ and David Dodd (2008) Security Analysis, 6E

   Greenblatt, Joel (1999) You Can Be a Stock Market Genius

   Greenwald, Kahn, Sonkin, Biema (2001) Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond

   Henwood, Doug (1997) Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom

   Levitt, Arthur (2003) Take on the Street: How to Fight for Your Financial Future

   Lewis, Michael (1989) Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

   _________ (2010) Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

   STATISTICS

   Ayres, Ian (2007) Super Crunchers: Why Thinking by Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart

   Bernstein, Peter (1996) Against the Gods: Remarkable Story of Risk

   Kahneman, Daniel (2011) Thinking, Fast and Slow

   Silver, Nate (2012) Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail, but Some Don't

   Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (2005) Fooled by Randomness, 2E

   _________ (2010) Black Swan: Impact of the Highly Improbable, 2E

   BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / ENTREPRENEURSHIP / INNOVATION

   Christensen, Clayton (1997) Innovator's Dilemma

   Stone, Brad (2013) Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

   Wallace, James and Jim Erickson (1992) Hard Drive: Bill Gates and Making of the Microsoft Empire

   Walton, Sam with John Huey (1992) Sam Walton: Made in America

   Wilson, Mike (1996) Difference between God and Larry Ellison: Inside Oracle Corp

   POLITICAL ECONOMY / THEORY / ECONOMIC HISTORY

   Arrighi, Giovanni (1994) Long Twentieth Century

   Braudel, Fernand (1979) Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century, vol. 3: Perspective of the World, trans. Siân Reynolds

   Brechin, Gray (2006) Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin

   Heilbroner, Robert (1999) Worldly Philosophers: Lives, Times & Ideas of Great Economic Thinkers, 7E

   Marx, Karl (1867) Capital, vol. 1

   Stiglitz, Joseph (2003) Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World’s Most Prosperous Decade

   _________ (2010) Freefall: America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy

   Vallianatos, E.G. (2014) Poison Spring: Secret History of Pollution and EPA

   Vilar, Pierre (1976) A History of Gold and Money: 1450-1920

   Yergin, Daniel (1992) Prize: Epic Quest for Money, Oil and Power

   Would enjoy email correspondence with anyone interested in these subjects: mitchelldeacon9@gmail.com All the best

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2. mindcrimeMar 2014
   http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalis...

   http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-VC-Game-Venture-Start-up/dp/...

   http://www.amazon.com/The-Startup-Game-Partnership-Entrepren...

   http://www.amazon.com/Term-Sheets-Valuations-Intricacies-Big...

   http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Capitalists-Work-Billion-Dolla...

   http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Venture-Capital-Serious-Entrep...

   http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Start-Time-Tested-Battle-Harde...

   I believe any one or more of those will get you going in the right direction. All of those I've either read, or have seen recommended highly enough by people I trust, that I feel comfortable recommending them. The Guy Kawasaki book is a good, basic introduction to starting a startup, although it's a little old now. I think most of it is still relevant though.

   A lot of this stuff is probably on the 'net as well, but you may have to dig around for it a bit. Quora has a lot of good questions (and good answers) on VC / startup topics, so that might be worth a look. Also, a number of high profile VCs maintain blogs where they share a lot of useful information. Mark Suster comes to mind (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/) and does Brad Feld (http://www.feld.com/wp/). Note that Brad Feld is the author of one of the above books.

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3. mindcrimeApr 2012
   Guy Kawasaki - The Art of the Start - http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Start-Time-Tested-Battle-Harde...

   Brad Feld - Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist - http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalis...

   Dermot Berkery - Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur - http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Venture-Capital-Serious-Entrep...

   Jeffrey Bussgang - Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on Your Terms - http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-VC-Game-Venture-Start-up/dp/...

   William Draper - The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs - http://www.amazon.com/The-Startup-Game-Partnership-Entrepren...

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4. mindcrimeFeb 2011
   Hmm... a few that jump to mind for me would be:

   The Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki http://www.amazon.com/Art-Start-Time-Tested-Battle-Hardened-...

   Outside Innovation - Patricia Seybold http://www.amazon.com/Outside-Innovation-Customers-Co-Design...

   Unleashing the Killer App - Larry Downes & Chunka Mui http://www.amazon.com/Unleashing-Killer-App-Strategies-Domin...

   Wellsprings of Knowledge - Dorothy Leonard Barton http://www.amazon.com/Wellsprings-Knowledge-Building-Sustain...

   The Innovators Dilemma - Clayton Christensen http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Busin...

   Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey A. Moore http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-Geoffrey-Moore/dp/00605...

   The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs - William H. Draper http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Game-Partnership-Capitalists-E...

   Some of these aren't necessarily about startups, but I think they all have something valuable to offer. YMMV.

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