Category: Startups

Rating: 6.8/10. Book that claims to be about startup growth, but is really the story of the rise and fall of the author’s own company. After seeing his coworkers struggle to find dates online, he quit his job at Lehman Brothers to start an online dating company. In the early stages, especially since the product…

Rating: 7.7/10. Founders have to make a lot of critical decisions during the course of a startup, that will affect its outcome years down the line. The first decision is whether to quit your job and do a startup: ideally you should have the right career conditions (knowledge of an industry), supportive family, and the…

Rating: 5.0/10. I got this book because options are a big part of tech company compensation and people don’t understand them that well, so I wanted to get a better understanding of them. This book sorta does it, but most of it focuses on all sorts of very technical tax details. It was so taxing…