Sherwood Neiss · ★★★★☆ · 360 pages · 2012

Great overview of crowdfunding

Brant Cooper · ★★★★☆ · 107 pages · 2010

Good outline of customer development

Alejandro Cremades · ★★★★★ · 217 pages · 2016

Learn how to plan for fundraising

Napoleon Hill · ★★★☆☆ · 125 pages · 1937

Man what a roller coaster of a book. It is basically a self help book focused on the success of accumulating wealth but a weird assortment of pseudo science and transcendentalism thrown in. Just when you think you are reading something insightful, you are thrown into the pseudo science. I suppose some of the stuff he was describing are psychology, group dynamics, and sociology before the experiments to back them which are insightful but it just starts so abruptly from practical to new agey.

Susan Cain · ★★★☆☆ · 333 pages · 2012

Great book if you are new to introversion but a lot of it can apply to both groups I feel. A lot of this writes as if people are just introverted and just extroverted but I think most people fall in between somewhere.

Esther Perel · ★★★★☆ · 220 pages · 2006

Several things about the book stand out and I kept nodding my head when reading this book

Satya Nadella · ★★★☆☆ · 289 pages · 2017

This books sort of gives the Why of Satya’s quest to shape one himself and two how that affected his view on what a Microsoft should be and his current changes to enable it to grow again. It reads like a rally to the troops really instead of Balmer’s developers, developers, developers it is more a thought through piece by Satya on what Microsoft is now, what it wants to be and where it sees the industry going.

Simon Sinek · ★★★☆☆ · 258 pages · 2009

This could have gotten its point in the first 50 pages and it does but I like the point it makes which is that at the core we need a why. Most of life we do the how and what. Having read this right after Being Mortal I guess I was influenced by the previous books need for a meaning in life at the end to keep going. This one makes the point for companies that need to create a meaning to survive. But my problem was he talks about the same three companies Apple, Microsoft, and Southwest.

Atul Gawande · ★★★★★ · 214 pages · 2014

The ancients feared an inglorious death, the moderns fear death.

Jeff Sutherland · ★★★★☆ · 363 pages · 2014

The 80/20 rule, OODA loop and the Toyota Production Method all make Scrum. Having worked in the valley Scrum and Agile have largely been bastardized by Jira and the likes so actually reading about it I realized the system is super simple and yet we have now made it super complicated.

Peter F. Drucker · ★★★★☆ · 70 pages · 1999

Main points:

Jane Gleeson-White · ★★★★☆ · 294 pages · 2011

An overview of the history of bookkeeping from when it entered Venice to its use now and how it evolved as we went through different economic revolutions.

John J. Ratey · ★★★☆☆ · 294 pages · 2008

Little long winded way of explaining how motion helps boost muscles and that strengthens neurons.

Greg McKeown · ★★★★☆ · 260 pages · 2011

Nothing other books haven’t covered but does give you some practical tips on how to reduce your things to the most essential.

Jeff Hoffman · ★★★★★ · 288 pages · 2014

Amazing book. The tag line don’t give yourself a job but build a business hit home. Everything is actionable and great for anyone who is running a company which is stuck in the you running it phase as opposed to the scale it up so it doesn’t need to phase. Definitely some good pointers.

Andrew S. Grove · ★★★★★ · 261 pages · 1983

I'd give this book 6 stars if possible. It is that good.

Kerry Patterson · ★★★☆☆ · 240 pages · 2002

For such a short book it was a slog. Something about the writing just wasn’t getting to me. But the conclusion was likely worth it as a cliff notes version

Barbara Oakley · ★★★☆☆ · 405 pages · 2017

The key point boxes were more revealing than the book. A book about how to learn and keep learning, but most of it is not that different from what you learn elsewhere.

Ray Dalio · ★★★★☆ · 592 pages · 2017

Essentially the book could be translated into:

Adam Grant · ★★★★☆ · 320 pages · 2016