These are links to some good books and web resources if you are working on a product startup
The Lean Startup movement
- Eric Ries page on everything about “The Lean Startup”. http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/
- Sean Ellis on startup marketing http://startup-marketing.com/
- Customer discovery and development http://steveblank.com/
- Startup Metrics http://500hats.typepad.com/
- Andrew Chen’s blog
Web Design
- Designing Web Interfaces by Bill Scott and Theresa Russell. This book has tons of examples from the real world on interaction design
- Dont make me think by Steve Krug
- Designing with the Mind in Mind by Jeff Johnson
- Nir and Far, Nir Eyal’s blog on building habit forming technologies
Marketing
- Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini. If you can have just one book on marketing, get this.
- Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout
- Crossing the Chasm, by Geoffrey Moore
- The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
Programming
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Objected Oriented Software by Gang of Four
- Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code by Martin Fowler and Kent Beck
