Book Reviews
Review: Secrets of Sand Hill Road
For all the founders and startups and unicorns in Silicon Valley—not to mention the leaky data sieve that is the internet—there's remarkably little public, easily accessible information on how venture capital (VC) works. Term sheets, General…
Review: Five Dysfunctions of a Team
I've read a good amount of Dan Brown's novels. It's a guilty pleasure in reading; I know that every story features literally the same character, much of the same plot points, dashes of real-world…
Review: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The power law. The Pareto Principle. Winner-takes-all. They all recognize an ecosystem where most of the benefits—and profits, as is often the case—accrues to a handful of individual entities, the theory suggesting that this type of uneven distribution…
Review: Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy
Inventions form many of the foundations of modern society. Many are easily recognizable from children's textbooks: the lightbulb, railroads, the printing press, the internet. Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy explores a set of complementary inventions. This…
Review: Trillion Dollar Coach
Even executives of the Fortune 500 need coaches, too. And if a number of these companies happen to be in Silicon Valley, at a time when the technology industry is dominating the upper-end of public market capitalizations and valuations, someone…
Review: Give and Take
In the world of Adam Grant's Give and Take , people can be divided into roughly 3 camps: * Takers, who look to take from others for their own benefit, or at least see success as a zero-sum game so…
