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The same site can also serve as good background for an industry you are researching: Business History - Industries.
Paul Ford: What is Code? (LINK)
Book of the day: Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, and Charles Lindbergh
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Bill Gates reviews the book Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (LINK) Tom Weik, Mohnish Pabrai, and John Mihaljevic discuss the parallels between investing and the game of bridge (LINK) Greece’s Ex-Finance...
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Sanjay Bakshi with more thoughts on Nestlé and Maggi (LINK) The Anti-Poverty Experiment - by Jason Zweig (LINK) Daphne Koller on the Future of Online Education [H/T Matt] (LINK) A Dozen Things Learned from Jim Goetz about Business, Startups and Venture...
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Seneca: The Man to Know in Ancient Rome (LINK) Related books: Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of NeroThe Greatest Empire: A Life of SenecaLetters from a StoicElizabeth Holmes, Theranos: Transforming Healthcare by Embracing Failure (video)...
- Harvey Firestone Quote
"The test of a business man is not whether he can make money in one or two boom years, or can make money through the luck of getting into the field first, but whether in a highly competitive field, without having any initial advantage over his competitors,...
- The Real Leadership Lessons Of Steve Jobs - By Walter Isaacson
Found via The Big Picture. His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October...
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I've previously asked for (good) business biography recommendations, and I appreciate all who have sent titles along (the list so far is HERE). On a related note, I came across the following site which has a bunch more listed: Business History - Business Biographies. It's a pretty extensive list, but if anyone browses through it and reads anything exceptional, please let me know. Thanks.
The same site can also serve as good background for an industry you are researching: Business History - Industries.
Paul Ford: What is Code? (LINK)
Related book: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and SoftwarePodcasts Are Saving NPR (LINK)
Book of the day: Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, and Charles Lindbergh
- Links
Bill Gates reviews the book Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (LINK) Tom Weik, Mohnish Pabrai, and John Mihaljevic discuss the parallels between investing and the game of bridge (LINK) Greece’s Ex-Finance...
- Links
Sanjay Bakshi with more thoughts on Nestlé and Maggi (LINK) The Anti-Poverty Experiment - by Jason Zweig (LINK) Daphne Koller on the Future of Online Education [H/T Matt] (LINK) A Dozen Things Learned from Jim Goetz about Business, Startups and Venture...
- Links
Seneca: The Man to Know in Ancient Rome (LINK) Related books: Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of NeroThe Greatest Empire: A Life of SenecaLetters from a StoicElizabeth Holmes, Theranos: Transforming Healthcare by Embracing Failure (video)...
- Harvey Firestone Quote
"The test of a business man is not whether he can make money in one or two boom years, or can make money through the luck of getting into the field first, but whether in a highly competitive field, without having any initial advantage over his competitors,...
- The Real Leadership Lessons Of Steve Jobs - By Walter Isaacson
Found via The Big Picture. His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October...