The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched....
Rating: 5. Average: 4.16
This is a MUST have book for every entrepreneur and good choice for software start-ups. And of course, the advises from this book also applicable for corporate software projects.<br /><br />Eric Ries...
Hadoop in Action by Chuck Lam
<em>Hadoop in Action</em> teaches readers how to use Hadoop and write MapReduce programs. The intended readers are programmers, architects, and project managers who have to process large amounts of da...
Rating: 3. Average: 3.36
Lam explained the theory behind Hadoop very well. The environment settings and running examples are actually scattered on Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. This would not be the best way for the beginners. ...
Mindfire by Scott Berkun
This definitive best-of collection of one of the web's best young writers is packed with big ideas and fun, guaranteed to make you think and smile. You'll learn to find passion, think free, manage tim...
Rating: 4. Average: 3.25
Very crisp and neat book. It does not waste our time to learn the tricks and tips which is actually the objective of this book.<br /><br />How to be a free thinker and good in time management. Some ...
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
<strong>IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, </strong>Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential ...
Rating: 5. Average: 3.84
After this was taken by Hollywood, much explanation not required for this book. If you are a programmer and wanna become entrepreneur, this one MUST be in your bookshelf. The sequence and the chapte...
Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition by Chetan Bhagat
Once upon a time, in small-town India, there lived two intelligent boys.<br />One wanted to use his intelligence to make money.<br />One wanted to use his intelligence to create a revolution.<br />The...
Rating: 4. Average: 2.98
As like his earlier, Revolution 2020 has well mixture of love, sex, and politics with cinematic turns which keep us reading to the end with couple of stretches. This time Chetan set the stage at Vara...