photo: Ken Yeung

Facebook co-founder has great book recommendations for startupers

“The Lean Startup: HowToday’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically SuccessfulBusinesses” by Eric Ries

“At Asana, we’ve been lucky to benefit from Eric’s advice firsthand; this book will enable him to help many more entrepreneurs answer the tough questions about their business.”

– Dustin’s review

If you want to read only one book on startups you should choose The Lean Startup. It’s about one of the hottest startup theories today: startup is all about testing your ideas, hypothesis and then finding their best combination. Like a science, not casino

Dustin gave brilliant lecture on his startup experience and what life in startup is really like.

Dustin’s talk is from 27 min

At the end of this talk he also shared his recommended reading. Enjoy it!

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

                  “Zero to One: Notes onStartups, or How to Build the Future” by Peter Thiel

                  “The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World” by David Kirkpatrick

                  “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age” by John Heider

                  “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg