Reading Club: Suggestions for Startups and Businesses

Every week, our peers at Startup Digest—a newsletter publication that targets the startup community—issues a list of recommended reading.

If you are almost finished with your current Sci-Fi tome, consider any of these titles courtesy of Startup Digest:

How to minimize politics in your company
By Ben Horowitz

"While it may feel good in the moment to be open, responsive and action oriented, be careful not to encourage all the wrong things."

Probably my biggest mistake
By Shane Reiser

"If you [mess] something up, try not to wallow for too long. Feel the pain. Accept what happened. Learn from your mistakes. And then go do whatever is next."

Product Strategy means saying no
By Des Traynor

"Real product decisions aren’t easy."

My First Exit
By Kejia Zhu

"In between, there was excitment, doubt, disappointment and elation. But mostly there was grind. No "hockey stick" growth, just small victories we fought for and earned each day. Somedays, we messed up."

Normal vs. Fat-tailed Distributions

A statistical lesson that has broad implications.

You aren’t born knowing how to be a CEO
By Brett Hurt

"A CEO sets direction while building and motivating an entire organization to capitalize on the opportunity."

The ABC Of Raising Your Seed Round
By Eran Galperin

"When you decide it is time to raise, one of the founders (typically the CEO) should be taking it on himself as a full-time job."

What it really means to be a “junior” developer
By Jonathan Barronville

"As junior developers, as backwards as it may sound, we have the habit of building before thinking and only thinking as we build."