What we’ve been reading

A quick preface: This is part 3 of a series of posts exploring “the human side of scale” by Jess Goldfin and K.C. Young.

• How to Start a Startup (Altman)
• Baron, Hannan, 2002: Organizational Blueprints for Success in High-Tech Start-Ups: Lessons from the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies. California Management Review v. 44 no. 3.
• The CEO of… (Bort)
• Don’t F*ck Up the Culture (Chesky)
• Davila, Foster, Jia, 2010: Building Sustainable High-Growth Startup Companies: Management Systems as an Accelerator. California Management Review v. 52 no. 3
• How Google sold its engineers on management (Garvin via HBR)
• Startup Mistakes (Graham)
• Tech startups have a big problem (and money isn’t it) (Griffith via Fortune)
• If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a Professional CEO (Hoffman)
• What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching (Hoffman)
• The Alliance: A Visual Summary (Hoffman)
• The Information Age to the Networked Age (Hoffman)
• Making Yourself a CEO (Horowitz)
• A Good Place to Work (Horowitz)
• How to Minimize Politics in Your Company (Horowitz)
• Happiness Culture Isn’t… (Hsieh)
• What It’s Like to Work For Stripe (Maccaw)
• Marion, Eddleston, Friar, Deeds, 2015: The evolution of interorganizational relationships in emerging ventures: An ethnographic study within the new product development process. Journal of Business Venturing v. 30, no. 1
• The case against the all-male startup (Markowitz via Inc)
• Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts of 2013 (Multiple)
• What VCs Look For (Product Hunt)
• For startups, how much process is too much (Ries viaHBR)
• Sawyer, 2015: How organizational innovation emerges through improvisational processes. The Emergence of Novelty in Organizations v 5.
• The impact of culture of enterprise creation (Thai)
• Defining the x chromosome: the DNA of women led startups (Theodore)
• Wyckoff, “The Bermuda Triangle of Management,” p. 1, and Wyckoff, “The Bermuda Triangle of Trucking,” p. 3.