I began this blog in July 2007, so more than 15 years ago. I began my professional activity around startups in September 1997, so more than 25 years ago. So many adventures, so many great moments. And so much book reading! I revisited these pages and did an exhaustive list of the books I could remember reading. Most have a post somewhere in the blog.

I created a little artificially 6 categories:
– About Google and Apple
– Entrepreneurs’ Biographies
– Startup Stories and Analyses
– Ecosystems and Innovation
– Venture Capital
– How to
– Fictions / Thrillers (or close)

Here they are… Enjoy (maybe!)

About Google and Apple

• Goomics, Google’s corporate culture revealed through internal comics, Manu Cornet
• In the Plex, How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives, Stephen Levy
• How Google Works, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
• Dogfight, How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, Fred Vogelstein
• I’M Feeling Lucky, Falling On My Feet in Silicon Valley, Douglas Edwards
• The Apple Revolution, Steve Jobs, the Counter Culture and How the Crazy Ones Took Over the World, Luke Dormehl
• Work Rules! Insights from inside Google that will transform how you live and lead, Laszlo Bock
• The Google Story, David Vise
• Return to the Little Kingdom, How Apple and Steve Jobs Changed the World, Michael Moritz

Biographies

• Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for A Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance
• Steve Jobs, La vie d’un génie, Walter Isaacson
• Inside Steve’s Brain, Leander Kahney
• The Man Behind the Microchip, Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, Leslie Berlin

Startups Stories / Analyses

• Trillion Dollar Coach, The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
• L’entrepreneuriat en action, Ou comment de jeunes ingénieurs créent des entreprises innovantes, Philippe Mustar
• Chercheurs et entrepreneurs : c’est possible ! Belles histoires du numérique à la française, Laurent Kott, Antoine Petit
• Bad Blood, Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou
• Bienvenue dans le Nouveau Monde, Comment j’ai survécu à la coolitude des startups, Mathilde Ramadier
• Les start-up expliquées à ma fille, L’entrepreneuriat vu de l’intérieur, Guillene Ribière
• Startup, Arrêtons la mascarade, Contribuer vraiment à l’économie de demain, Nicolas Menet, Benjamin Zimmer
• No Exit, Struggling to Survive a Modern Gold Rush, Gideon Lewis-Kraus
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Building a Business When There are no Easy Answers, Ben Horowitz
• Zero to One, Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
• Startupland, How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business, Mikkel Svane, Carlye Adler
• European Founders at Work, Pedro Gairifo Santos
• Founders at Work, Stories of Startups’ Early Days, Jessica Livingston
• The Monk and the Riddle, The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, Randy Komisar
• Once you’re lucky, Twice you’re good, The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web, Sarah Lacy
• They Made It! Angelika Blendstrup
• Betting It All, The Entrepreneurs of Technology, Michael Malone,
• In the Company of Giants, Candid Conversations With the Visionaries of the Digital World, Rama Dev Jager, Rafael Ortiz
• Startup, A Silicon Valley Adventure, Jerry Kaplan

Ecosystems and Innovation

• From the Basement to the Dome, How MIT’s Unique Culture Created a Thriving Entrepreneurial Community, Jean-Jacques Degroof
• The Microchip Revolution: A brief history, Luc O. Bauer, E. Marshall Wilder
• The Code, Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, Margaret O’Mara
• Loonshots or how to nurture crazy ideas, Safi Bahcall
• Troublemakers, How Generation of Silicon Valley Upstarts Invented the Future, Leslie Berlin
• The Rainforest, The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley, Victor W. Hwang, Greg Horowitt
• The Innovators, How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson
• The Entrepreneurial State, Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, Mariana Mazzucato
• Genentech, The Beginnings of Biotech, Sally Smith Hughes
• Science Lessons, What the Business of Biotech Taught Me About Management, Gordon Binder
• Le prochain Google sera Suisse (à 10 conditions), Fathi Derder
• Prophet of Innovation, Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction, Thomas McCraw
• Start-up Nation, The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, Dan Senor, Saul Singer
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed–and What to Do About It, Josh Lerner
• The Innovation Illusion, How So Little is Created by So Many Working So Hard, Fredrik Erixon, Bjorn Weige
• Un paléoanthropologue dans l’entreprise, S’adapter et innover pour survivre, Pascal Picq
• Against Intellectual Monopoly, Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
• The New Argonauts, Regional Advantage in a Global Economy, AnnaLee Saxenian
• Regional Advantage, Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, AnnaLee Saxenian
• Silicon Valley Fever, Growth of High Technology Culture, Everett M. Rogers, Judith K. Larsen
• Creating the Cold War University, The Transformation of Stanford, Rebecca S. Lowen
• Nurturing Science-based Ventures, An International Case Perspective, Ralf Seifert, Benoït Leleux, Christopher Tucci
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Peter F. Drucker
• The Gorilla Game, Picking Winners in High Technology, Geoffrey Moore
• Inside the Tornado, Strategies for Developing, Leveraging, and Surviving Hypergrowth Markets, Geoffrey Moore
• Crossing the Chasm, Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers, Geoffrey Moore
• The Founder’s Dilemmas, Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, Noam Wasserman
• The Innovators Dilemma, When New Technologies Cause Good Firms To Fail, Clayton M. Christensen
• Accidental Empires, How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can’t Get a Date, Robert X. Cringley

Venture Capital

• The Power Law, Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, Sebastian Mallaby
• The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital, Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing, Robert A. Finkel
• The Startup Game, Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs, William H. Draper III
• Creative Capital, Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital, Spencer Ante
• The Business of Venture Capital, Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies, Mahendra Ramsinghani
• The New Venturers, Inside the High-Stakes World of Venture Capital, John Wilson

 

How To

• The Mom Test, How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you, Rob Fitzpatrick
• Straight Talk for Startups, 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds, Randy Komisar, Jantoon Reigersman
• Measure What Matters, OKRs, The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth, John Doerr,
• The start-up of You, Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career, Reid Hoffman
• Don’t f**k it up, How Founders and Their Successors Can Avoid the Clichés That Inhibit Growth, Les Trachtman
• How To Start a Business That Doesn’t Suck (and will actually turn a profit), Michael Clarke
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Successful Strategies for Products That Win, Steve Blank (NB: the book has been updated and renamed as The Startup Owner’s Manual, The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company, Steve Blank, Bob Dorf)
• The Lean Startup, How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Eric Ries
• Business Model Generation, Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
• Slicing Pie, Funding Your Company Without Funds, Mike Moyer
• Getting to Plan B, Breaking Through to a Better Business Model, John Mullins, Randy Komisar
• Winning Opportunities, Proven Tools for Converting Your Projects into Success (without a Business Plan), Raphael Cohen
• Start-up, (anti-)bible à l’usage des fous et des futurs entrepreneurs, Bruno Martinaud
• The Art of the Start, GuyKawasaki

 

Fiction / Thrillers or close

• Drop by Drop, Keith Raffel
• Smasher, a Silicon Valley Mystery, Keith Raffel
• dead, a Silicon Valley Mystery, Keith Raffel
• The Ultimate Cure, Peter Harboe-Schmidt
• The First $20 Million Is Always The Hardest, Po Bronson
• The Nudist on the Late Shift, And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley, Po Bronson