Startups & Products [INDEX]
2 min readSep 26, 2019
Hello! I’m @Ivan Landabaso, Partner at JME Ventures. Welcome to Startup Riders, where we share emerging tech waves you should surf. Get these stories in your inbox for free — 👉 SUBSCRIBE HERE
Tl-dr — This is a list of projects and key books about startups/products, summarized in bullet points. I’ll keep this updated as I go. Enjoy!
Stuff I’ve built
- surfboardtribe.com (surfboard marketplace)
- SmashMarket — Martial Arts Marketplace.
- Nimbler — Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Training App (iOS)
- Urby Systems — electric urban mobility devices
- TriviTap — visual riddle-based iOS game
- Meister Solutions — university consulting services
Startups
- How To Do What You Love — Paul Graham [10/10]
- The Only Thing That Matters — by Marc Andreessen [9/10]
- The Lean Startup — by Eric Ries [8/10]
- Crossing The Chasm — by Geoffrey Moore [7/10]
- Never Split The Difference — by Chris Voss [8/10]
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things — by Ben Horowitz [7/10]
- The Everything Store — by Brad Stone [6/10]
- High Growth Handbook [Elad Gil]
- The Startup Owner’s Manual [Steve Blank & Bob Dorf]
Products
- Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love — by Marty Cagan [7/10]
- Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager — by Ben Horowitz & David Weiden [9/10] (not a book summary, but a must read)
- The Lean Product Playbook — by Dan Olsen [7/10]
- Measure What Matters: OKRs — by John Doerr [8/10]
- User Story Mapping — by Jeff Patton [6/10]
- Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time — by Jeff Sutherland [6/10]
- The Design Of Everyday Things — Dan Norman [8/10]
- Mental Models For Product Builders
Economics & Venture Capital
- Poker Theory & Analytics: MIT Open CourseWare Notes [8/10]
- Venture Deals [Brad Feld]
- Secrets of Sand Hill Road — Scott Kupor → amazon
Better Humans
- Lifespan — David A. Sinclair [8/10]
- How To Win Friends & Influence People — by Dale Carnegie [8/10]
- Can’t Hurt Me — by David Goggins [10/10]
- Extreme Ownership — by Jocko Willink [9/10]
- Don’t Shoot The Dog: The New Art of Teaching Training — by Karen Pryor