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Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes
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I believe any one or more of those will get you going in the right direction. All of those I've either read, or have seen recommended highly enough by people I trust, that I feel comfortable recommending them. The Guy Kawasaki book is a good, basic introduction to starting a startup, although it's a little old now. I think most of it is still relevant though.
A lot of this stuff is probably on the 'net as well, but you may have to dig around for it a bit. Quora has a lot of good questions (and good answers) on VC / startup topics, so that might be worth a look. Also, a number of high profile VCs maintain blogs where they share a lot of useful information. Mark Suster comes to mind (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/) and does Brad Feld (http://www.feld.com/wp/). Note that Brad Feld is the author of one of the above books.
I never liked founders at work, there's nothing in there which you could learn. Here's the rating which I would to the book just like what Derek sivers did 2/10 - http://sivers.org/book/FoundersAtWork . It just turns out Jessica and PG has tons of influence in hacker community that's why you here her book being recommended all the time.Alternative : Try Venture capitalist at work by Tarang Shah
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⬐ jayzeeOk, follow-up post 13 days' after technology's recommendation. I got the book and I read it and I did not find the advice actionable. He interviews a bunch of vcs (and a few founders) but mostly vcs and you hear the same thing that you expect:- Startups fail because they run out of money
- VC's like to invest in smart passionate entrepreneurs who are solving a personal problem who are not in it for the money.
- VC's like either big markets or great teams or both
- etc etc
Some of the interviews were great (Howard Morgan) but the problem with interviewing active vcs is that they can't talk about the stuff behind the scenes. Often founder's who have had successful exits have no such qualms.
⬐ hornbakerTarang's a great guy. I spent a lot of time with him at my last startup when he was with SoftBank. The book has considerable coverage of Sequoia Capital which I found particularly interesting.