# An Annotated Startup History Bibliography

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Author: Fuzzygroup

Published: 2022-06-23T08:43:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Scott Johnson](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/scott-johnson.md>)

Topics: [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [books](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/books.md>), [business](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [startup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/startup.md>)

## AI overview

An annotated bibliography of high-tech case studies and books, organized roughly by historical period and technology company. The author adds notes and recommendations, including a discussion of software marketing lessons from In Search of Stupidity.

## Source excerpt

I've been reading High Tech case studies now since the 80s - just after I entered the business. Bryan Cantrill from Oxide Computer's podcast inspired me to get all my books out and order them on a rough historical basis. I thought listing them here might be interesting to someone. All of these I've read and there are a ton of lessons for entrepreneurs here. I put rough notes next to some of them in bold after the author name in quotes. Change Log 2022-06-27 - Added book of the week 2022-06-26 - Cleaned my bookcase and looked for other books in this category and added entries for How Would You Move Mount Fuji (Microsoft category), Go To (Misc / Software Category), Building a Successful Software Business (Misc / Software Category), Side Hustles (Misc / Software Category), Facebook by Steven Levy (Web 2 category), Tim Cook (Apple Category), A Piece of the Computer Pie (IBM Category), In Search of Stupidity (Misc / Software Category), Crypto (Misc / Software Category), Smart and Gets Things Done (Software Category), The Effective Engineer (Misc / Software Category), Creativity Inc (Apple Category), The Chip (Intel Category), Lean In (Web 2 Category), No Such Thing as a Free Gift (Microsoft Category), The Phoenix Project (Misc / Software Category) 2022-06-26 - Added Sub Categories in the Apple Section 2022-06-26 - Added Sub Categories in the Web 2 Section 2022-06-23 - Started adding links, added books suggested on Twitter, Added Gaskins on PowerPoint History; fixed typos (how did I possibly misspell Torvalds; clearly was stupid yesterday) 2022-06-23 - Apologies for where an Audible audio book is linked instead of hard or paperback; Amazon is inconsistent with this 2022-06-23 - Added a bunch more notes from reading these. Book of the Week In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters View on Amazon This is an absolute gem of a book. There is a lot of humor here but the best bits, the parts I underline, start on Page 308 where he outlines positioni