Books Recommended by Howard Marks
Howard Marks is the CEO of StartEngine, an equity crowdfunding platform that lets the public invest in startups. Before StartEngine he founded and ran Acclaim Games, and earlier he was a co-founder of Activision.
4 books recommended by Howard Marks
The Lean Startup
by Eric Ries
I would say The Lean Startup is the one that is very easy to digest and probably has most of the truth that you need to get things off the ground. It really teaches you how to do some experimentation. That was a very good… Read the full quote
I would say The Lean Startup is the one that is very easy to digest and probably has most of the truth that you need to get things off the ground. It really teaches you how to do some experimentation. That was a very good one. [...] If you want to stay small and lean, The Lean Startup is a great place to start.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
I would say the one book for entrepreneurs, there's several books that I recently read. Peter Thiel has a book. Zero to One I read. It was good.
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by Ashlee Vance
I'm reading the Elon Musk book right now, and that's pretty good. Although, you have to be a fan of his to really appreciate it.
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Then you have the classic business books like The Innovator's Dilemma. Then you're getting into more the large business kind of thinking.
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