UX for Lean Startups

This is one of the best books I have read on User Experience design and best practices. I highly recommend it. "UX for Lean Startups"

Recommended Reading

The Startup of You

Great book to help you give your career strategy a tune-up! Also see the slide summary of the book at http://www.slideshare.net/reidhoffman/startup-of-you-visual-summary




www.amazon.com/The-Start-up-You-Yourself-Transform/dp/0307888908/

Cloudonomics

I bought this book after a meeting I had with the author Joe Weinman. He was an impressive leader in Cloud Computing. The book is complex and not for a casual reading experience. Many of the  advanced topics of Cloud Computing are covered. For example, at LonoCloud we deal with orchestrating hybrid clouds and there is a concept of "Eventual Consistency". This is covered in his book on page 178. The book approaches cloud in a very analytical approach.


www.amazon.com/Cloudonomics-Website-Business-Value-Computing/dp/1118229967/

The Startup Owner's Manual

A good book on driving entrepreneurial success. Includes all the various topics that should be considered when launching a startup business.

http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-Step/dp/0984999302

Business Model Generation

A great book on the nine building blocks for a business model. Also goes with the app called Business Model Toolbox for the iPad.


http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/

The Lean Startup

The Lean Startup is a must read for any founder, a collection of chapters and topics on the various challenges you will face in a startup. Nobody can provide a simple formula for a successful startup, you have to remain nimble and think on your feet. As the book points out, it is about people, culture, and building an engine of growth.


www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898/

Prospecting and Qualifying

This is a short take from the Miller Heiman series of publications for improving your sales skills. When I became CEO a good friend and colleague gave this book to me to start up journey on building my sales skills. This is very a great read and a very crisp focus on how to prospect and qualify customers as part of an efficient and effective sales process.

www.amazon.com/Prospecting-Qualifying-Finding-Business-Economy/dp/B0065TCZTE/

The Joy of Clojure

While I am no longer an active developer, I read this book because LonoCloud is building our new Cloud PaaS+ technology in the language and one of our chief software architects at LonoCloud authored the book (Chris Houser who we call "Chouser"). I actually learned a lot and found the examples were easy to understand in the context of each coding topic. The Clojure language is very powerful for a number of reason and is quickly gaining popularity by the top developers in the industry.


www.amazon.com/The-Joy-Clojure-Thinking-Way/dp/1935182641/

2020 Vision

An inspirational book for the high tech industry on where the future is headed including the communications market. Authored by a good friend and colleague of mine Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi. To catch up on his most recent topics, check out his LinkedIn blogs, very powerful and insightful!

www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-hossein-eslambolchi/1/8b4/ab3




www.amazon.com/2020-Vision-Transformation-Technology-Innovation/dp/0929306392/

Continuous Delivery

This is a great book to take continuous integration for agile software engineering to the next step: automating the process of reliable software releases through build, test, and deployment. Impressive book and the authors put a significant amount of effort based on their experience to think through all the various dimensions of software delivery




www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912/

Tuned In

A great book for product marketing professionals and also part of the Pragmatic Marketing program. I like how it emphasizes customer focus and better understanding your customers, their unresolved problems, the buyer, quantifying the impact of your product, and ensuring you provide a breakthrough experience!

http://www.amazon.com/Tuned-Extraordinary-Opportunities-Business-Breakthroughs/dp/047026036X

Anyone involved in product management should be familiar with Pragmatic Marketing: http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/

I am There for Your Baby!

I mention this book as it is authored by my friend and colleague Neil Senturia and you will find stories of both myself and my other colleague Greg Ricchiuti as he describes out first startup venture named ATCOM/INFO that we sold to Cisco Systems.


www.amazon.com/There-Baby-Entrepreneur-Guide-Galaxy/dp/0983170428/

Internet Unleashed

The picture below is for the second edition. In the first edition of Internet Unleashed I authored Chapter 10 on "Managing Internet Security.