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  • If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.
  • The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.
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Found 29 comments on Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future:

u/shaun-m · 106 pointsr/Entrepreneur

Not sure if it's a cultural thing between the US and the UK or just society evolving now we have social media and stuff but I recently reread How to win friends and influence people and though it was massively overrated. Same goes for The 7 habbits of highly effective people.

Anyway, heres my list of books and why:-

Bounce

Excellent book in my opinion. Based on variations of the 10,000-hour rule with plenty of examples. Also touches on how the unknown habits and circumstance of someone can lead to outstanding abilities.

Zero To One

The first book that I couldn't put down until I completed it. Picked a fair few things up from it as well as a bunch of things I hope to move forward within the future with startups.

The 33 Strategies of War

Not a business book but definitely my style if you take the examples and strategies and turn them into business. This is the second book I have not been able to put down once picking it up.

The E-Myth Revisited

Although I had a decent understanding of how to allocate duties to people depending on their job role this helped me better understand it as well as the importance of doing it.

ReWork

Another book I loved, just introduced me to a bunch of new concepts with a fair few I hope to use in the future.

Black Box Thinking

Coming from and engineering background I was already used to being ok with my failures provided I was learning from them but this book is based around how different industries treat failure and how it is important to accept it and grow from it.


Millionaire Fastlane

I feel this is an excellent book for reality checks and getting people into a better mindset of what to expect and the amount of work required. It also explains a few common misconceptions of the get rich slow style methods where you may end up rich but you will be 60 years old or more.

I update this post with all of the books I have read with a rating but here are my top picks.

u/alexandr202 · 27 pointsr/Entrepreneur

Not a book, but great resource to vet out a business plan: Lean Canvas

Books:

  1. Lean Startup
  2. Zero to One
  3. E-Myth Revisited



    Lean Startup for sure, as it relates to small, lifestyle or scalable business. Zero to One is a phenomenal book by one of the Paypal Founders, but is geared a bit to tech startups. E-Myth if you are starting more of a small business, as opposed to tech startup.

    "You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.”
    ― Ben Horowitz

    Excited for you venturing into your own business! Kick ass!
u/_Lucky_Devil · 14 pointsr/Entrepreneur

If you liked The Lean Startup, Zero to One by Peter Thiel is also a very good read

u/ValueInvestingIsDead · 11 pointsr/wallstreetbets

> Decline in SolarCity installations

> TSLA is abandoning solar energy!

Solar is one of the most essential components of their renewable plan (solar + storage = renewable grid) and they aren't going to abandon that because SolarCity's contracts came to a halt, unsurprisingly after TSLA tightened every facet of their spending belt due to this horse-fuckery quarterly analysis.

SolarCity was a stop-gap to penetrate the market with solar before a viable mass-scale solar option came to play (the roof, which is on the backburner while TSLA is scrutinized every Q for automotive deliveries).

lol, come on man. If you can, read a VERY BASIC BOOK on tech investing, and reevaluate how you're perceiving this entire market sector. Try thinking 5Y, 10Y ahead, and not 1 or 2 Quarters ahead.

u/MoneyBaloney · 9 pointsr/The_Donald

Are you kidding me? In 2016?

No, but seriously. He has written multiple books worth reading, does interviews on a weekly basis worth watching

He speaks and writes endlessly about how globalism is a problem. If you've been following him as long as I have, you can even see how he evolves. 5-10 years ago, Thiel seemed to loosely accept globalism and recognizes that is does provide some benefit to the poorer billions of people on the planet. But listen to him speak about stagnation in 2016 and why globalism is to blame and how to fix it. So enlightening. If this gay conservative Christian billionaire was a double agent, he'd have to work overtime for years to undo the damage already done to Globalism.

u/scarysaturday · 7 pointsr/freelance

Honestly...I don't.

Until I'm at the point where I have a consistent stream of referrals and organic leads from search engines, my free time (within reason) becomes prospecting time.

In many ways, prospecting is more important than client work. If you end up finishing with a fantastic project, but then are left with a barren period of time afterwards, you run the risk of screwing with your finances (and subsequently your mental health).

Just got done reading Zero to One by Peter Thiel, and there was a really fantastic quote in there that rings true for freelancing:

> If you've invented something new but you haven't invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business - no matter how good the product.

u/ohai123456789 · 6 pointsr/startups

I recommend:

u/itsamillion · 6 pointsr/AskALiberal

In no particular order:

  • The Moral Animal. Robert Wright.
  • The Open Society and Its Enemies. Karl Popper.
  • Albion’s Seed. D. H. Fischer.
  • *Zero to One.* P. Thiel.
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
  • Critique of Pure Reason. I. Kant.
  • A Treatise on Human Nature. Hume.
  • The Death of the Liberal Class. C. Hedges.
  • A Theory of Justice. Rawls.
  • The Origin of the Work of Art. M. Heidegger.
  • The Denial of Death. E. Becker.
  • American Colonies. A. Taylor.
  • The Selfish Gene. R. Dawkins.
  • Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud.
  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces. J. Campbell.
  • The Birth of the Artist. Otto Rank.
  • Modern Man in Search of a Soul. Jung.
  • The Feminine Mystique. Betty Friedan.
  • Sexual Personae. Camille Paglia.
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People. D. Carnegie.

    Sorry I got tired of making links. I’m on my phone.
u/shaansha · 5 pointsr/Entrepreneur

I love the crap out of books. One of life's greatest joys is learning and books are such an excellent way to do it.

Business books you should read:

  • Zero To One by Peter Thiel - Short, awesome ideas and well written.

  • My Startup Life by Ben Casnocha. Ben's a super sharp guy. Learn from him. He started a company in his teens. He was most recently the personal 'body man' for Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn)

  • The Lean Startup by Eric Reis - Fail fast and fail early. Build something, test, get feedback, and refine.

    Non Business Books (That Are Essential To Business

  • Money Master The Game by Tony Robbins - I am a personal finance Nerd Extraordinaire and I thought Tony Robbins was a joke. Boy was I wrong. Hands down the best personal finance book I've ever read. Period.

  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Ever seen Gladiator? This is the REAL Roman Emperor behind Russel Crowe's character. This book was his private diary.

  • Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl - Hands down one of the most profound and moving books ever written. Victor was a psychologist and survived the Nazi training camps

    As a way of background I have newsletter where I share proven case studies of successful entrepreneurs. I outline step by step how they made money and got freedom from their day job. If you’re interested let me know and I can PM you the link to the newsletter or if you have any questions.
u/merreborn · 4 pointsr/sanfrancisco

Same here. Had to google it

I know the name "Peter Thiel", but this is the first I've heard of the book.

u/iceporter · 3 pointsr/SideProject

yeah I know these book recommended by startup community, there is also http://theleanstartup.com, and from zero to one

anyone know another recommended or similar books ? would like to have another books to read

u/jdroidian · 3 pointsr/androiddev

Anything new is hard. It doesn't mean it isn't worth it. That's what a lot of the startup space is about. I would recommend you go check out /r/Entrepreneur and read some blogs/books on the matter before giving up because this guy says he couldn't do it.

Zero to One by Peter Theil (http://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296) is a pretty good book about completely new ideas.

[EDIT] I don't mean to sound like I'm bashing OP. People should know that the majority of new ideas will utterly fail and that it is very hard work to get one to succeed. They should also know that the hard work and the right idea can pay off.

u/yellowhatb · 3 pointsr/startups

my company, cymbal, is trying to answer this question directly.

trends largely suggest listeners are transitioning from mp3s to streaming services. streaming services have partly competed by attempting to differentiate their catalogs, but it's hard to imagine these differences persisting over time. sure, kanye is holding TLOP on tidal for now, but eventually even the beatles broke.

peter thiel, in "zero to one", used card readers like square to illustrate the challenges of entering a market where it's hard to differentiate from competition, and streaming services know their goals will have to orient around platform-specific offerings, rather than differences in libraries. i think there's reason to believe that because the simple proposition of $10/month for the entire recorded history of music has been replicated, the challenge will need to be about helping users navigate that vastness.

speaking specifically to the future of the music business, it's important to remember that streaming music is still a very new phenomenon, and on-demand services have yet to penetrate their market. growth, across demographics and nationalities, could scale these services' revenue models many times over. changes in how we listen – in our cars, for example – are just as important to this discussion as how we get the music itself delivered to us.

if i had to predict, i'd expect streaming to become increasingly dominant now that smartphones have proliferated, and the most-dominant software providers to these devices (android and ios) have built streaming services (google music / youtube red / youtube music and apple music) that come pre-loaded on devices. i'd also expect a consolidation of streaming apps, which the fall of rdio and songza already suggest.

which brings me back to why i believe the future of the music business has less to do with libraries or delivery, and more with recommendation and navigating those services' tens of millions of songs. music creation, dissemination, and promotion that is almost entirely digital needs a very different staffing model than the compound structure that now exists and serves physical and digital sales, distributed over myriad channels from radio to streaming playlists. that's tough, though, because streaming services weren't built for sharing, and can only ever speak to their segment of the market. alternatively, a focus on the promotional models that have worked in other realms of celebrity – viral and social marketing, using instagram, twitter, snapchat – might really work. but those platforms weren't made for listening to music.

our idea is that the best recommendations come from the people – friends, artists – who matter to you. we want to let our users show up from any streaming service (right now we support soundcloud and spotify) and find their friends, regardless of how those friends listen, to discover the songs they love. and since every play on cymbal counts on spotify and soundcloud, premium users on our app are driving revenue to the artists they like.

i think we're in as volatile a period of change the music industry's ever seen, but streaming services are proving successful in price and product in their battle against piracy. the next frontier is figuring out how to get everybody listening to the right stuff on them.

u/qwertyuioh · 3 pointsr/startups

This app, like WhatsApp, is dependent on network effects -- both parties need to have the app to reap any benefits. But unlike this app, What'sApp has over 500 million users all across the world and they've also got Facebook behind the platform to ensure global domination...

This app has to start from scratch and there is little to distinguish it from the many competitors... competitors like Google Hangouts. The Stock Android App which ships on every Android smartphone & CANNOT be uninstalled ^(w/o root). Hangouts is also being pushed as The default app for SMS and IM on Android. Hangouts now offers free calling throughout the US and free calls among Gmail/Google users across the world.

Like I said before, this app is going to have to face tremendous hurdles... just because they got into YC != success.


Also the Dropbox analogy is pretty terrible.

For one, dropbox use isn't subject to network effects. Secondly, Dropbox is getting crushed by Google, and Microsoft, and Amazon and Box and iCloud and other services who are battling for the same cloud storage market. They're undercutting each other like crazy to lock down users and profits are razor thin. Dropbox's entire business is dependent on Storage whereas the 'other guys' have other cash-flows to keep them in the fight. The hope of Dropbox IPO has also evaporated.... so in short yes, competition is crushing Dropbox.


u/organizedfellow · 2 pointsr/Entrepreneur

Here are all the books with amazon links, Alphabetical order :)

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u/spxmn · 2 pointsr/spacex

That's totally wrong, does google have any competitors in the last decade? was the search engine collapsed?
I'd recommend you to read this book.

u/AlasPoorJordan · 2 pointsr/entrepeneur

I liked Zero to One by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters. I found that book both insightful and very easy to digest. I tore through it rather quickly. It's a bit more philosophical than it is hard and practical, but it really makes sense. I am currently reading The Lean Startup, but I am too early into it to form an opinion.

http://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296

u/Northcliff · 2 pointsr/Entrepreneur

I think Peter Thiel's book explores this; maybe start there

u/tangowhiskeypapa · 1 pointr/Entrepreneur

There's a million things most people on this sub could recommend, and really the learning never stops.

Here are some good starting points:

The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz

Zero to One - Peter Thiel

The Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman

The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferris

u/depressed_founder · 1 pointr/Entrepreneur

Zero to One is my favorite.

u/mau5-head · 1 pointr/cats

Well innovation drives the world forward doesn't it?

Here in San Jose, I feel that we're not making progress in reducing stray cat populations with our TNR (trap neuter release) programs, it's the same story every year. Shelters get flooded with cats, not enough takers.

I'm reading this book called 0 to 1 where the author talks about something similar. According to him, going from:

• 0 to 1 - Innovating, creating something novel.

• 1 to n - Globalizing. Taking an innovation and propagating it thru the world. E.g. if a cure for ebola is found and given to every country in the world eradicating the disease.

He believes that we've had few 0 to 1 moments since 1975 (outside of technology), and a lot of 1 to n ones.

Go for your new shelter idea if you can. And keep me posted.

u/akkashirei · 1 pointr/startups

It's still a few books down on my reading list so I can't say what I think of it, but it's worth at least reading the table of contents. http://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296

u/30thnight · 1 pointr/IAmA

Innovation is what leads our economy to growth.

>they must provide the good or service at the lowest possible cost

With or without regulation, this requires assumptions that aren't realistic like:

  • All firms must sell identical products. (They don't)
  • All companies can't control market price of their goods. (Business strategy encourages otherwise)
  • Companies have small market share. (Companies advertise, buy each other out, push each other out the market, etc.)
  • All buyers full info about all product/pricing offerings out there. (We have AOL subscribers paying broadband rates for dial-up in 2017)

    In this libertarian world, imagine if a company owned the lands & home you were born and raised. How is this different than from the era of serfs, lords & aristocracy?

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    Also, if you get a chance, I'd highly recommend taking a few minutes to read through Zero To One by Peter Thiel.
u/anbu13 · 1 pointr/politics

Their business model also initially failed the engineering question of making a product better than what was already on the market.

> Solyndra developed novel, cylindrical solar cells, but to a first approximation, cylindrical cells are only 1/π as efficient as flat ones—they simply don’t receive as much direct sunlight. The company tried to correct for this deficiency by using mirrors to reflect more sunlight to hit the bottoms of the panels, but it’s hard to recover from a radically inferior starting point.
Excerpt From: Peter Thiel. “Zero to One.”

u/more_lemons · 1 pointr/Entrepreneur

Start With Why [Simon Sinek]

48 Laws of Power [Robert Greene] (33 Strategies of War, Art of Seduction)

The 50th Law [Curtis James Jackson]

Tipping Point:How Little Things Can Make a Difference and Outliers: The story of Succes [Malcolm Gladwell]

The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy [Ryan Holiday] (stoicism)

[Tim Ferris] (actually haven't read any of his books, but seems to know a way to use social media, podcast, youtube)

Get an understanding to finance, economics, marketing, investing [Graham, Buffet], philosophy [Jordan Peterson]

I like to think us/you/business is about personal development, consciousness, observing recognizable patterns in human behavior and historical significance. It's an understanding of vast areas of subjects that connect and intertwine then returns back to the first book you’ve read (Start with Why) and learn what you've read past to present. Business is spectacular, so is golf.



To Add:

Irrationally Predictable:The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions - [Dan Ariely] (marketing)

The Hard Things About Hard Things - [Ben Horowitz] (business management)

Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It - [Charlamagne Tha God] (motivation)

The Lean Startup: Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses - [Eric Ries]

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, How to Build the Future - [Peter Theil]

u/jiltin · 0 pointsr/investing

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

http://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296

If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we're too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.

Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. Tomorrow's champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today's marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.

Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.