davidw

Book recommendations

12 books

davidw · Apr 18, 2009
Crossing the Chasm is a good book, but as a sales book for a freelancer?
davidw · May 18, 2008
Some favorites include "20 years of high tech marketing disasters", "crossing the chasm", "innovator's dilemma".
davidw · May 18, 2008
"crossing the chasm", "innovator's dilemma".
davidw · Dec 6, 2016
I've been reading the "Expanse" series. I liked the earlier books a bit more.
davidw · Mar 16, 2008
It's definitely worth reading, but not worth paying for
davidw · Mar 12, 2008
It's not bad, but it's free on the web.
davidw · Nov 13, 2007
The "Programming Collective Intelligence" book is pretty good in terms of a practical introduction to a variety of techniques.
davidw · Dec 8, 2014
I can't recommend that first book enough. It's still the best thing I've read for bootstrappers.
davidw · Dec 28, 2013
Still a very relevant book in a lot of ways.
davidw · Dec 26, 2012
"Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation" was also very interesting, and a clever use of statistics to look at how one specific sector works.
davidw · Dec 28, 2013
biography of John Fremont. Interesting guy in an interesting period of American history.
davidw · Dec 26, 2012
"The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick" stick out as being pretty good.
davidw · Dec 28, 2013
not one for the ages, but I thought his take on entrepreneurship was interesting.