Jump Point : how network culture is revolutionizing business / Tom Hayes, McGraw-Hill, 2008
A ‘Jump Discontinuity’ is the new version of ‘Tipping Point’. This book looks into the crystal ball and predicts the next web revolutions. Hardcover, 200 pages.
Burning the Ships : intellectual property and the transformation of Microsoft / Marshall Phelps, Wiley, 2009
Here is an interesting account of how Microsoft re-thought its approach to intellectual property during the 2000’s. It is written by a Microsoft executive who previously managed IBM and helped it reverse its decline by enforcing its patents. In this book, you have to read between the lines. Hardcover, 150 pages.
The Entrepreneurial Effect: Practical Advice from your Own Virtual Board of Advisors, edited by james Bowen, Foreword by Terry Matthews, Invenire, 2009
A book of articles on starting up a technology company by the luminaries of the Ottawa ‘Silicon Valley North’. 250 pages.
The Inventor’s Bible : how to market and license your brilliant ideas / Ronald Louis Docie, Ten Speed Press, 2010
Good practical information to help you profit from your product. 300 pages.
Twitterville : How Businesses can thrive in the new global neighborhoods / Shel Israel, Portfolio, 2009.
Am I over 140 chrs yt? Hardcover, 300 pages.
The Innovator’s Solution : creating and sustaining successful growth / Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business School, 2003
This slightly dated book is from the guru of ‘disruptive change’. You can read it without having read the precursor ‘Innovator’s Dilemma’. Hard cover, 300 pages.
Managing Online Forums : everything you need to know to create and run successful community discussion boards / Patrick O’Keefe.
A very practical, useful book. 300 pages.
Selling Online With Drupal e-Commerce : walk through the creation of an online store with Drupal’s e-Commerce module / Michael Peacock, Packt Publishing, 2008
Useful if you are setting up an online store. 200 pages.