<story><title>Startup Reading List</title><url>http://www.nicolabortignon.com/startup-reading-list/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>n72</author><text>The great majority of people shouldn&amp;#x27;t read these — not because they&amp;#x27;re not good books or don&amp;#x27;t increase one&amp;#x27;s chances of startup success (they may or may not — I have no clue), but because the great majority of people will think they&amp;#x27;re doing startup stuff by reading them. It&amp;#x27;s confusing activity for accomplishment. If you do read these, keep in mind the entire time you&amp;#x27;re reading these you&amp;#x27;re not working on your startup. In other words, be very cognizant of the fact that you may very well be procrastinating.</text></comment>
<story><title>Startup Reading List</title><url>http://www.nicolabortignon.com/startup-reading-list/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>projectramo</author><text>Startup books are like books about screenwriting: the common wisdom is you learn the most by actually doing it. Reading about it without doing it is like reading about the piano or programming without actually doing it.&lt;p&gt;Now, once you&amp;#x27;ve started the most useful book or resource has to do with the problem you face. If you have customers but need to raise money, its one kind of advice. If you have a customers but the product isn&amp;#x27;t working, its another sort of advice.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t have customers, well, that&amp;#x27;s the hard part.</text></comment>