I’ve been doing some prep reading over the last few weeks to get ready for a new job. Some of these are close reads, some of these are more for skimming, but I’ve gotten something valuable out of all of them.
Intro to Venture Capital
- Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital — and How to Get It by Scott Kupor (2019)
- Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes by Tarang Shah with Shital Shah (2011)
- Mastering the VC Game by Jeffrey Bussgang (2010)
Refreshing Scrum / Agile Knowledge Base
- Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller (2020)
- Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process by Ken Rubin (2011)
- Agile Product Management with Scrum by Roman Pichler (2009)
Startups and Entrepreneurship
- The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen (2021)
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz (2014)
- Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors by Brad Feld and Mahendra Ramsinghani (2013)
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (2010)
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win by Steven Blank (2006)
Thinking about DevOps / MLOps +
- MLOps: Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning on AWS (2020)
- MLOps: Continuous delivery and automation pipelines in machine learning (2020)
- Amazon Machine Learning Developer Guide (2021)
- MLOps is a Practice, Not a Tool by JL Marechaux (2021)
- What you need to know about product management for AI (2020)
- People + AI Guidebook (2021)
- Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning by Martin Fowler (2019)
- The ML Test Score: A Rubric for ML Production Readiness and Technical Debt Reduction by Breck et al. (2017)
- Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering by Martin Zinkevich (2011)
General Work Stuff
- Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home by Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel (2021)
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (2018)
- Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (2012)