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Hauptly: Something Really New

This book gives three "right" questions, and the Eventual Innovators should put these questions on a wall in their office because they must constantly remind themselves of the need to get back to basics and confront these questions, Step 1: What is this product used for?

Matt Mochary: The Great CEO Within

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Founders should not grow beyond a team of six until there is true product market fit. True product market fit means one million dollars in recurring revenue for an enterprise company.   Chaos is expected in a team of six or less - they want if to be hard. 

Tony Fadell: Build

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When choosing career, the correct place to start is: “what do I want to learn?”  Follow your natural interests,  not- “What company has enough name recognition that my mom can brutally crush the other moms when they boast about their kids?”  😂

Ben Horowitz: The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

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The best thing about startups? You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And the lack of sleep that comes with the job seems to enhance them both.  

David Ogilvy: Confessions of an Advertising Man

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If you detect the stench of conceit in this book, I would have you know my conceit is selective. I cannot read a balance sheet, work a computer, ski, sail, or play golf. But when it comes to advertising they call me King. When Fortune published an article about me titled “Is David Ogilvy a Genius?,” I asked my lawyers to sue the editor for the question mark.

Steve Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From

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Kliebers law proves that as life gets bigger, energy slows down. But Geoffrey West's model demonstrated one crucial way in which human-built cities broke from patterns of biological life: as cities get bigger, they generate ideas at a faster rate.