I am often asked about the books I think people should read if they want to be entrepreneurs and/or Angel Investors.  Here’s a quick list.  Some are relatively new, others are really old.  I won’t bother offering reviews, just believe me when I say that these books changed the way I think about such things and may be helpful to you, too.  

In no particular order:

• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers; Moore, Geoffrey A.; Collins Business, 1991 
• Business Model Generation; Osterwalder, Alexander & Yves Pigneur; Wiley, 2010  
• Winning Angels: The 7 Fundamentals of Early Stage Investing; Amis, David & Howard Stevenson; Prentice Hall, 2001 
• Venture Deals; Feld, Brad & Jason Mendelson; John Wiley & Sons, 2011  
• Angel Investing: Matching Start-up Funds with Start-up Companies; Van Osnabrugge, Mark & Robert J. Robinson; Jossey-Bass, 2000 
• The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures; Roam, Dan; Penguin Books, 2008  
• The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty Years; Kahn, Herman & Anthony J. Weiner, The MacMillan Company, 1967 
• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business; Clayton M. Christensen; Collins Business Essentials), 2003  
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; Kuhn, Thomas S.; The University of Chicago Press, 1962