Good resource or Book for Internet Start-Ups

Bob Walsh has a couple of good books (notably the Web Startup Success Guide) and is a participant on this board. His web site is at:

http://www.47hats.com

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Not a technical book, but Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki covers about everything else. Scaling issues will probably be platform dependent (LAMP, .NET, Python, RoR). The creators of StackExchange & StackOverflow have talked about their scaling challenges in their podcast; they could probably write a book.

If you love Getting Real, you should love Rework also.

For marketing strategies check out Dharmesh's book, Inbound Marketing. Dharmesh is one of the hosts of this site.

Also check out this post from Dharmesh. It's the best list I've found on marketing To Dos for a startup.

I think a good book any startup founder must read is "Crossing the Chasm". I have read almost 3/4ths of the book so far and I have learnt so much and have corrected my way of thinking towards marketing a product or a product type.

Crossing the Chasm on Amazon

A used or second hand book is good enough for this.

There are boatloads of books -- maybe check out Founders At Work for detailed interviews with founders on how they did it.

Art of the Start: while probably valuable, you have to take this with something of a grain of salt. Guy is great, but he's never started his own company.

37 Signals' Getting Real: not about startups. Maybe worth reading, although you have to sift through their penchant for posturing.

I would recommend reading Founders at Work and then Do More, Faster. They are two of the best books for any internet startup because they cover what it is like to start a business and then how to pull it off.

• The Innovator’s Dilemma & The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton M. Christensen
• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
• Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley’s Cutting Edge
• Dealing with Darwin : How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution — all three by Geoffrey A. Moore
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
• Business Model Generation: by Alexander Osterwalder
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win by Steven Blank

10,000 Startup Hours. I only came across this blog today but it has some great content and is updated daily.