The Founder Bookshelf
Books founders recommend to each other. Browse by topic or by where you are as you grow, mark what you've read, and add what's next.
5 books on Fundraising & VC for timeless
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The biography of the man who invented venture capital.
Spencer Ante tells the life story of Georges Doriot, the French immigrant, Harvard Business School professor, and World War II general who founded American Research...
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Venture capital's founding figures recount how it all began.
Udayan Gupta gathers first-person accounts from more than thirty leading venture capitalists, from early pioneers like Eugene Kleiner and Arthur Rock to later top...
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A practitioner's manual for the inner workings of a VC fund.
Mahendra Ramsinghani offers a comprehensive look at venture capital from the investor's operational side, covering how funds are raised, deals are structured, value is...
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Lessons in private investing straight from the field's pioneers.
The book collects interviews and case studies with leading private equity and venture capital investors, drawing out the management lessons behind their biggest deals....
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How risk-taking with other people's money built modern venture capital.
Tom Nicholas traces the origins of American venture capital from nineteenth century whaling voyages and cotton mills through the rise of firms like Kleiner Perkins and...
Questions, answered
What books do founders recommend?
Founders on the eChai network recommend titles like Creative Capital, Done Deals, and The Business of Venture Capital. The bookshelf ranks books by how many founders have read them.
Where can I find a startup reading list?
The eChai founder bookshelf is a curated, founder-recommended reading list you can browse by topic (fundraising, product, hiring) and by stage.
How is the bookshelf ordered?
By recommendation: the more founders mark a book read, the higher it ranks. You can also sort by newest or A to Z.
