Can anyone suggest good books/courses for growing a tech startup?
Courses could also be those focused on skills useful in a startup, e.g. product design, cloud infrastructure etc.
And books could also be less direct and case studies of successful tech startups.
No bad suggestions really!
I have read getting real by basecamp team, it's an old one, but it's gold for me (You need less then you think ~ it's my favorite section). Next I will read shape up, also from basecamp team
Tough question. YC has a free startup course.
On the tech skills side, the best value I’ve found is watching Humble Bundle for sales on No Starch Press books. They’re top quality and you can get 15 for $18.
For product design, anything from Adam Wathan or mastery.games is good.
I reached out several really successful founders and asked them what their favorite biz books were. Here's the resulting article.
Some of their picks:
How do you define “biz books”? I see how #2 and #3 are… but the others look like art or self-help.
Entrepreneurship requires you to be a generalist. You can't just be a good coder or a good marketer or a good salesperson or a good manager.
So it's no wonder experienced and successful entrepreneurs recommend books that help you manage yourself, make better decisions, operate complex systems, influence others, etc.
I read the minimalist entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia (founder of Gumroad) a few months back and thought it was a good read.
The LEAN Startup is for sure one of the best I've read so far! There are ofc. a lot more for example Zero to One, Getting acquired, hooked, the one-page marketing plan,... . You could hit me up on Twitter if you would like more, I read a lot of books in this genre.
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. To add to this, one such book i've read recently and found really useful was The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen of Uber and a16z