Current Bedside Reading

 

 

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Current Bedside Reading

via Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed by pk on Jun 20, 2007

In case some out there are interested, here is the current stack o' bedside books:

• Why Most Things Fail, by Paul Ormerod
• Fortune's Formula, by William Poundstone
• Capital Ideas Evolving, by Peter Bernstein
• The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Vol. 1, by Imre Lakatos

The first three are ones I hadn't yet got around to reading, but I'm a Lakatos junkie and am re-reading his classic collection for the umpteenth time.

 

 

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Some Wise Words for Entrepreneurs

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Some Wise Words for Entrepreneurs

via Sramana Mitra on Strategy by Calvin McElroy on May 19, 2007

By Cal McElroy, Guest Author

A friend and advisor of our company, Sean Wise just published a new book... "Wise Words - Lessons in Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital."

You can download or buy the printed book [here]

I have known Sean for many years and used his counsel on many occasions. He has been successful on both sides of the entrepreneur (5 startups) and VC equation, has practiced corporate law, advises most of Canada's VC firms, and most importantly to this audience - has run 75 bootcamps in Canada to train enterpreneurs in how to develop business plans, pitch and work with investors. Over 2500 founders have been through Sean's program and collectively raised over $890 million in venture capital - quite a track record. He is an entertaining speaker, writes a regular column for the national Globe & Mail and publishes a popular blog [here]. Most recently, Sean has been working on the second season of the hit realty TV show in Canada, called "The Dragons Den"... where entrepreneurs pitch 5 multi-millionairs on live TV, for the startup capital they need.

Sean has dedicated his professional career to helping entrepreneurs achieve their dreams. To quote one of his Canadian fans, John Pinsent, former Director with Ernst & Young LLP - "Sean is the guru of entrepreneurship in Canada. What Al Gore is to the environment, Sean is to entrepreneurism". Can it get any better than that? Read the book.

 

 

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Research on MicroFranchising

i might wanna read the microfranchising book mentioned to learn about this entire paradigm

 

 

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Research on MicroFranchising

via Sramana Mitra on Strategy by DaveStoker on May 26, 2007

By David Stoker, Guest Author

While the concept of microfranchising sounds simple and exciting, and successful models are starting to emerge, there are endless opportunities for research in methodology and impact evaluation. One university that is dedicating specific resources to researching the field of microfranchising is Brigham Young University in Utah. Their business school houses a Center for Economic Self-Reliance which conducts research with partnering organizations to help families become economically self-reliant. They have a specific MicroFranchising Initiative and have published a series entitled "Where There Are No Jobs" which consist of handbooks for business training of microentrepreneurs and case studies of microfranchises.

They are also sponsoring the publication of a new book that is currently coming off the presses called, MicroFranchising: Creating Wealth at the Bottom of the Pyramid authored by Jason Fairbourne, Stephen Gibson, and W. Gibb Dyer. My copy is yet to arrive but I look forward to reading their outlook and forecast of the movement.

I am personally aware of a number of organizations that are experimenting with the concept and hopefully integrate monitoring and evaluation into their models to help all of us learn from their experiences.

In the last Post: My forecast of immediate needs

 

 

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does someone have these papers for free ?

if yes, will you mind lending them to me ? i can buy you a coffee

 

 

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Central Bank Chairs, Fed Futures, Assassinations, and Rational Pessimism

via Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed by pk on May 24, 2007

Four new investments-related NBER papers worth scanning/reading:

• Fed funds futures contracts are excellent predictors of the fed funds rate (Hamilton)
• Rational pessimism and rational exuberance in explaining the equity risk premium (Bansal, et al.)
• Markets don't care who chairs a central banks, except when they do care (Kuttner, et al.)
• The effect of assassination on war and institutions (Jones, et al.)
  

 

 

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Vacation Reading List

via The Stalwart by Joseph Weisenthal on May 25, 2007

Next week, The Stalwart will be on hiatus as a take a much-needed vacation to a tropical island. The last time I took any time off of work was when I got married last summer, which wasn't exactly a restful vacation. I'll still have my computer with me (to avoid going through intense withdrawal), but I'm actually going to try doing something very radical: reading books. Yes, real printed pages. Strange, I know.

Here's my vacation reading list

• Moneyball I know, I should've read this years ago, but sometimes you just don't get around to it. I'm about a third of the way through, and it shouldn't be hard to finish it over the coming week. Full writeup when I'm done, although I wonder if the world needs another person to talk about this book.
• Bumblebee Economics Also, been in the hopper for a long time. Given the bee shortage, it seems more pertinent than when I first ordered it.
• Your Worst Poker Enemy Duh, your worst poker enemy is yourself. At least in my case it is. Gotta fix that loose cannon head of mine.
• Rebirth of American Industry A study of lean management
• Mother Night The Strand had a big pile of Kurt Vonnegut books out the last time I was there, presumably on account of his recent passing, so I picked this one up. I've liked just about every Vonnegut book I've read, and I doubt this will be different. But I have to be honest, this will probably be the last on my list, because, let's face it, life's too short to read fiction.

And there you have it.

 

 

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d Beckstrom, co-author of the Spider and The Starfish, talked at length about the power of decentralized networks over centralized networks and drew comparisons between the Spanish and the Apache Indian, Napster and Kazaa, and of course the spider and the starfish. The analogy is an important one. Cut off a spider's head and he dies. Cut off a starfish's leg and he re-grows. He says decentralized business and networks will always win out. This is fascinating stuff. You need to read his book to get the full effect.
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i shud read this book

 

 

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Smart and Gets Things Done

via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on Jun 05, 2007

I wrote a book!

The title is Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent.

It is, as promised, concise. Even though it's hardback, it's about the size of a paperback romance novel, with wider margins, and about 180 pages, including some blank ones.

To pad it out, Apress hired my favorite illustrator, Terry Colon, to illustrate it. He did a fantastic job (the cover illustration at right will give you a feel for his style). His goofy, frantic, manically hilarious illustrations are reason enough to buy the book.

Here's what you get:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: "Hitting the High Notes"
• Chapter 2: "Finding Great Developers"
• Chapter 3: "A Field Guide to Developers"
• Chapter 4: "Sorting Resumes"
• Chapter 5: "The Phone Screen"
• Chapter 6: "The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing"
• Chapter 7: "Fixing Suboptimal Teams"
• Appendix: "The Joel Test"

As you know, I write first and foremost for the web, so most of this material originated as Joel on Software articles. As usual, I did a bunch of reorganizing, reformatting, and rewriting to make it into a book-quality thing that you can read from beginning to end, and, since it's such a short book, you should be able to do that during the commercials of a typical half-hour sitcom.

It's cheap, about $13 on Amazon right now, so get your copy now before they run out.

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Dan Altman's new book on the economy "Connected: 24
Hours in the Global Economy " is getting good reviews
(NY Times)

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Eventually the financial systems in China and India will improve, and a lot more of their capital will be used at home. That won't happen anytime soon, though. In a new book, The Next Great Globalization, Federal Reserve Governor Frederic S. Mishkin writes: "It takes a long time for any nation to achieve strong property rights and an effective financial system."

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Summer Investing & Entrepreneurship Reading List

 

 

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Summer Investing & Entrepreneurship Reading List

via Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed by pk on May 11, 2007

My friend James at TheStreet has a good summer reading list of entrepreneurship and investing books:

• Founders at Work
• The Only Three Questions That Count
  
• Hackers and Painters
• Confessions of a Street Addict
• The Dhando Investor
• The Wisdom of Crowds
• Grande Expectations
  

 

 

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Plenty of Fish

 

 

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Plenty of Fish

via Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed by pk on Jun 09, 2007

Two interesting books reviewed in today's Times:

• The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy (NYT/Amazon)
• The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture (NYT/Amazon)
  

 

 

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