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)