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
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)