Arjun Srivastava's Library

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer
What are the secrets to making a company enduringly valuable? 7 Powers breaks fresh ground by constructing a comprehensive strategy toolset that is easy for you to learn, communicate and quickly apply. Drawing on his decades of experience as a busin...

The Algebra of Happiness: The Pursuit of Success, Love and What It All Means
Scott Galloway
From the New York Times bestselling author, a provocative book of hard-won wisdom for achieving a fulfilling career and life. - How can you have a meaningful career, not just a lucrative one?- Is a work/life balance really possible?- What does it ta...

The Cold Start Problem
Andrew Chen
A venture capitalist draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, and as an executive at Uber to address how tech's most successful products have solved the dreaded "cold start problem"—by leveraging network...

HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company
Richard S. Ruback , Royce Yudkoff
Think big, buy small.Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: You can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small comp...

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Pedro Domingos
"Wonderfully erudite, humorous, and easy to read." --KDNuggetsIn the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want,...

The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers & Learn if Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You
Rob Fitzpatrick
The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the...

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Michael Lewis
*New York Times* Bestseller. “A superb book. . . . [Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar’s Poker.”― *Time In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safa...

Only the paranoid survive: how to exploit the crisis points that challenge every company and career
Andrew S. Grove
Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chipmaker, the fifth-most-admired company in America, and the seventh-most-profitable company among the Fortune 500. You don't achieve rankings like these unless you have mastered a ...

The Risk-Driven Business Model: Four Questions That Will Define Your Company
Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine
How to outsmart riskRisk has been defined as the potential for losing something of value. In business, that value could be your original investment or your expected future returns.The Risk-Driven Business Model will help you manage risk better by sho...

Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital—and How to Get It
Scott Kupor
'Worth far more than its cover price ... I wish I’d had it available to me when I was first looking for startup funding' -- Eric RiesEvery startup needs capital, and ambitious startups seek it on Sand Hill Road – Silicon Valley’s dream street for en...

Side Hustle: Build a Side Business and Make Extra Money – Without Quitting Your Day Job
Chris Guillebeau
From the New York Times bestselling author of $100 Startup comes this accessible guide to building a side business from scratch – without having to give up your day job.Side Hustle is about much more than just making some extra cash; it’s about free...

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Jake Knapp , John Zeratsky , Braden Kowitz
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER “ Sprint offers a transformative formula for testing ideas that works whether you’re at a startup or a large organization. Within five days, you’ll move from idea to prototype to decision, sav...

The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
Reid Hoffman , Ben Casnocha
A blueprint for thriving in your job and building a career by applying the lessons of Silicon Valley’s most innovative entrepreneurs. LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha show how to accelerate your career in today’s c...

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
Gino Wickman
Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations—personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or, once made,...

Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future
Hemant Taneja
Unscaled identifies the forces that are reshaping the global economy and turning one of the fundamental laws of business and society -- the economies of scale -- on its head. An innovative trend combining technology with economics is unraveling beh...

UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship
MJ DeMarco
MJ DeMarco’s long awaited follow-up to the international best-seller, The Millionaire Fastlane, UNSCRIPTED is the definitive blueprint for escaping the cultural conditioning of the mundane and mediocre; learn how to create an awe-inspiring lif...

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Blake Masters
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows...