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Startup CommunitiesBook Brad Feld

has updated his excellent book on startup ecosystems

Referring in the same post to the earlier Brad Feld book that The Startup Community Way expands.

2020-07-27·avc.com ↗

Enemy Of All MankindBook Steven Johnson

is both a great story and also an object lesson in how single event can have a compounding effect on global politics and economics

The book his firm's book club read that month, by a friend and former USV portfolio founder.

2020-06-16·avc.com ↗

A Man For All MarketsBook Edward O. Thorp

It’s a terrific book

A post about the book he moved to the top of his reading pile after two friends recommended it.

2017-05-30·avc.com ↗

Startup CXOBook Matt Blumberg

It is the kind of book you will keep by your desk and pull out from time to time to figure out how to approach an issue or to help one of your senior leaders figure out how to do that.

A post about a friend's 640-page field manual for scaling a leadership team.

2021-06-09·avc.com ↗

The New BuildersBook Seth Levine and Elizabeth MacBride

My friend Seth Levine and Elizabeth MacBride have written an important book about the changing face of entrepreneurship in the US.

A post marking the book's release, on who American entrepreneurs actually are.

2021-05-04·avc.com ↗

The Startup Community WayBook Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway

The timing of this book is excellent.

A pre-order post; he argues the pandemic makes the book's argument about distributed startup ecosystems more relevant.

2020-07-27·avc.com ↗

GritBook Angela Duckworth

Her book Grit is about the power of perseverance.

A post after Angela Duckworth spoke at USV's CEO Summit.

2017-05-15·avc.com ↗

The Seventh SenseBook Joshua Cooper Ramo

I am enjoying it and think you all will too.

A post about a book on power and networks that he says is about everything he writes about on AVC.

2016-08-01·avc.com ↗

The Business BlockchainBook William Mougayar

the book makes a complex subject, blockchain technology, accessible for the non-technical

A post about a book by an AVC commenter that began as a Kickstarter project he had backed.

2016-05-02·avc.com ↗

The PrizeBook Dale Russakoff

I’m almost done with the book and I’m very glad she suggested it to me.

A post about the book on Newark school reform that his wife told him to read.

2015-10-13·avc.com ↗

The World After CapitalBook Albert Wenger

That means I will read it again and you should too.

A post about his USV partner Albert Wenger finishing the book he had been writing in public for a decade.

2021-08-30·avc.com ↗

First FriendsBook Gary Ginsberg

If you enjoy history books and/or are a student of the US Presidency, you should grab this book and give it a read.

A post on publication day about a friend's book on US Presidents and their closest friends; he had read an advance copy.

2021-07-06·avc.com ↗

WhiplashBook Joi Ito and Jeff Howe

I don’t do this very often, but I am going to break a rule and recommend a book that I just bought and have not yet read.

An explicit recommendation of a friend's book, with the caveat that he had not read it yet.

2016-12-05·avc.com ↗

The People’s PlatformBook Astra Taylor

So I’m reading it now and I thought you all might want to join me.

A post about a book his USV partner recommended; he was still reading it.

2014-11-12·avc.com ↗