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title: "Startup: la lista definitiva di post da leggere"
url: "https://www.raffaelegaito.com/startup-la-reading-list-definitiva/"
type: post
date: "2015-01-12T16:06:55+00:00"
modified: "2022-11-10T19:37:30+00:00"
id: 23
slug: startup-la-reading-list-definitiva
author: Raffaele Gaito
excerpt: "48 post da leggere assolutamente, consigliati dai migliori startupper e Venture Capital della Silicon Valley."
---

# Startup: la lista definitiva di post da leggere

Ho seguito con piacere e interesse il corso della Stanford University in collaborazione con Y-Combinator dal titolo “**[How to Start a Startup](http://startupclass.samaltman.com)**”. 20 lezioni tenute, lo scorso autunno, dai migliori Startupper e Venture Capital della Silicon Valley.

Prima di ogni intervento, i docenti suggerivano alcuni post da leggere legati all’argomento della lezione. Alcuni di essi sono post molto famosi nell’ambiente startup mentre altri lo sono un po’ meno.

Ad ogni modo, avendoli trovati utili e di particolare ispirazione ho pensato di raggrupparli in un unico post. Sono un ottimo punto di partenza per chi si è **appena avvicinato al mondo delle startup e non sa da dove iniziare** ma anche per startupper “veterani” che cercano letture interessanti.

Ecco la lista:

1. [Advice for Ambitious 19 year olds](http://blog.samaltman.com/advice-for-ambitious-19-year-olds) di Sam Altman
2. [Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur](https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/good-and-bad-reasons-to-become-an-entrepreneur-decf0766de8d) di Dustin Moskovitz
3. [Stupid Apps and Changing the World](http://blog.samaltman.com/stupid-apps-and-changing-the-world) di Sam Altman
4. [Do things that Don’t Scale](http://paulgraham.com/ds.html) di Paul Graham
5. [How to Get Startup Ideas](http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html) di Paul Graham
6. From Failure to $37M in Funding di Adora Chueng
7. [Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing](http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/06/03/jessica-livingston-why-startups-need-to-focus-on-sales-not-marketing/) di Jessica Livingston
8. How we put Facebook on the path to 1 billion users di Chris Barber
9. [Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?](http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal-slow-death.html) di Joel Spolsky
10. [A Recipe for Growth – Adding Layers to the Cake](http://jeff.a16z.com/2012/01/18/a-recipe-for-growth-adding-layers-to-the-cake/) di Jeff Jordan
11. [Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s Early Days](http://allthingsd.com/20121020/mark-zuckerberg-on-facebooks-early-days-go-hard-or-go-home/) di Mike Isaac
12. [The Secret Behind Pinterest’s Growth Was Marketing, Not Engineering](http://allthingsd.com/20121020/the-secret-behind-pinterests-growth-was-marketing-not-engineering-says-ceo-ben-silbermann/) di Liz Gannes
13. [Startup = Growth](http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html) di Paul Graham
14. Chasing Facebook’s Next Billion Users di Douglas MacMillan
15. [Your App Makes Me Fat](http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat) di Kathy Sierra
16. [What Makes a Design Intuitive](https://articles.uie.com/design_intuitive/) di Jared Spool
17. [Creative mornings with Ben Chestnut](https://web.archive.org/web/20180705005044/http://blog.chrisbarber.co/transcript-creative-mornings-with-ben-chestnut)di Chris Barber
18. [What Makes Marriages Work](http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200910/what-makes-marriage-work) di John Gottman e Nan Silver
19. [Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines](http://hbr.org/1993/01/customer-intimacy-and-other-value-disciplines/ar/1), Harvard Business Review
20. [Creating Passionate Users](http://headrush.typepad.com/) di Kathy Sierra
21. The Press is a Tool di Alexia Tsotsis
22. [Why Software is Eating the World](https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460) di Marc Andreessen
23. [How to Convince Investors](http://paulgraham.com/convince.html) di Paul Graham
24. [How to Raise Money](http://paulgraham.com/fr.html) di Paul Graham
25. [Linkedin’s Series B Pitch to Greylock](http://reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/) di Reid Hoffman
26. Introducing Talking to Humans di Frank Rimalovski
27. Writing a Business Plan di Sequoia Capital
28. [The Happiness Culture: Zappos isn’t a Company – it’s a Mission](http://www.fastcompany.com/1657030/happiness-culture-zappos-isnt-company-its-mission) di Fast Company
29. [Don’t Fuck Up the Culture](https://medium.com/@bchesky/dont-fuck-up-the-culture-597cde9ee9d4) di Brian Chesky
30. [What’s It Like to Work for Stripe](http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/stripes-culture) di Alex Maccaw
31. [How to Hire](http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire) di Sam Altman
32. [The Continuous Productivity of Aaron Levie](http://www.technologyreview.com/news/522081/the-continuous-productivity-of-aaron-levie/) di MIT Technology Review
33. [Six principles of influence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini#6_key_principles_of_influence_by_Robert_Cialdini) di Robert Cialdini
34. [Marc Andreessen on the Future of Enterprise](http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/27/marc-andreessen-on-the-future-of-the-enterprise/) di Alexia Tsotsis
35. [The Information Age to the Networked Age: Are you Network Literate?](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140604152945-1213-the-information-age-to-the-networked-age-are-you-network-literate) di Reid Hoffman
36. [The Alliance: A Visual Summary](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140715055930-1213-the-alliance-a-visual-summary) di Reid Hoffman
37. [What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20131015161834-1213-what-i-wish-i-knew-before-pitching-linkedin-to-vcs) di Reid Hoffman
38. [If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20130123161202-1213-if-why-and-how-founders-should-hire-a-professional-ceo?trk=mp-author-card) di Reid Hoffman
39. [The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups](http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html) di Paul Graham
40. [Making Yourself a CEO](http://a16z.com/2012/10/17/making-yourself-a-ceo/) di Ben Horowitz
41. [A Good Place to Work](https://a16z.com/2012/08/18/a-good-place-to-work/) di Ben Horowitz
42. [How to Minimize Politics in Your Company](http://a16z.com/2010/08/24/how-to-minimize-politics-in-your-company/) di Ben Horowitz
43. [How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup](http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/21/how-to-work-with-lawyers-at-a-startup/) di Mark Suster
44. [SaaStr – From-the-trenches sales advice](https://www.saastr.com/best-of-saastr/) di Jason Lemkin
45. [How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success In Selling](http://www.amazon.com/How-Raised-Myself-From-Failure-ebook/dp/B002XQAAWW) di Frank Bettger
46. [Five ways to build a $100 million business](https://medium.com/@chrija/five-ways-to-build-a-100-million-business-82ac6ea8ffd9) di Cristoph Janz
47. Pitching Hacks! How to pitch startups to investors di Venture Hacks

Se invece siete alla ricerca di [**libri sul mondo delle startup**](http://blog.startupitalia.eu/10-libri-che-ogni-startupper-deve-avere-sul-comodino-compreso-uno-che-non-direste-mai/) vi consiglio di dare un’occhiata a [questo post](http://blog.startupitalia.eu/10-libri-che-ogni-startupper-deve-avere-sul-comodino-compreso-uno-che-non-direste-mai/) e a [quest’altro](http://blog.startupitalia.eu/71856-20150130-i-10-migliori-libri-per-imparare-a-fare-startup-secondo-i-ventures-della-silicon-valley) che ho pubblicato qualche settimana fa su StartupItalia!.