Reddit reviews Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

Founders at Work
http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1590597141

• Founders at Work
  
• Coders at Work
  
• Lean Startup
  
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
  
• The Four Steps to Epiphany
  
• High Tech Startup
  
• Getting things Done

Here are all the books with amazon links, Alphabetical order :)

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• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1591396190
  
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh et al. Link: http://amzn.com/160941280X
  
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown Link: http://amzn.com/0804137382
  
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston Link: http://amzn.com/1590597141
  
• How Google Works by Eric Schmidt et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1455582344
  
• Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World by Gary Vaynerchuk Link: http://amzn.com/006227306X
  
• Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson Link: http://amzn.com/0307720748
  
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1400064287
  
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck Link: http://amzn.com/0345472322
  
• Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0385346654
  
• Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1476714207
  
• Rework by Jason Fried et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0307463745
  
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin Link: http://amzn.com/1591842948
  
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss Link: http://amzn.com/0307465357
  
• The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth by James Altucher Link: http://amzn.com/150100994X
  
• The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison by Mike Wilson Link: http://amzn.com/0060008768
  
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz Link: http://amzn.com/0062273205
  
• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen Link: http://amzn.com/0062060244
  
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries Link: http://amzn.com/0307887898
  
• The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime by MJ DeMarco Link: http://amzn.com/B004BDOUAI
  
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday Link: http://amzn.com/1591846358
  
• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1885167776
  
• The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0984999302
  
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Link: http://amzn.com/0316346624
  
• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1591848369
  
• Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out by Marc Ecko Link: http://amzn.com/1451685319
  
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel et al. Link: http://amzn.com/0804139296

Checkout founders at work

http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1590597141

Not sure if this is what you're looking for: http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1590597141

If you're doing a technology startup especially, a couple of books from the YC guys: Hackers and Painters and Founders At Work.

I've recently been reading this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1590597141

which is full of anecodtes about the early days of Adobe to Yahoo (including reddit favourites like Viaweb and Fog Creek). It's interesting reading (better than tryint to find another nuggest of wisdom in the latest AJAX book :) )

In general every path is different, so take all advice with skepticism. Study of entrepreneurship has shown that reality differs from traditional teaching. For example, business plans tend to be used after the fact for improvement rather than seriously up front. This is covered well on Effectuation. The E-Myth books cover important basics, though most of those books say the same things and it does not always apply. Paul Orfalea's Copy This is pragmatic and inspirational. An old but still good book with various lessons about doing business is Startup by Jerry Kaplan. The book Founders at Work has lots of real stories that drive home how much work startups are and how different and in a way alienating the work can be, as starting something is not like having a job.

For ideas and inspiration in general the Change This site can be a good source. Good luck!