car economics

Comparison: relayrides, citycarshares, getaround

the books to read, per GNG...

Market Leadership & Growth

§  ‘Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t’ – Jim Collins (Random House Business Books, 2001) - DONE

§  ‘Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies’ – Jim Collins (Random House Business Books, 2005) - DONE

§  ‘Competing for the Future’ – Gary Hamel & C K Prahalad (Harvard Business School Press, 1994)

§  ‘Contemporary Strategic Analysis’ – Robert Grant (Blackwell, 2007)

§  ‘The Trusted Business Advisor’ – David Maister, Charles Green and Robert Galford (Free Press, 2001)

§  ‘Working with Emotional Intelligence’ – Daniel Goleman (Bloomsbury, 1999)

§  ‘Network Your Way to Success’ – John Timperley (Piatkus, 2002)

§  ‘Networking for Business Success’ – Heather White (Writers’ Printshop, 2004)

§   'Getting Naked - A Business Fable About Shedding the Three Fears that Sabotage Client Loyalty' - Patrick Lencioni, (Wiley, 2010)

People

§  ‘Encouraging the Heart: A Leader’s Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others’ – James Kouzes and Barry Posner (Jossey-Bass, 2003)

§  ‘The Human Equation’ – Jeffrey Pfeffer (Harvard Business School Press, 1998)

§  ‘Leadership and Spirit: Breathing New Vitality and Energy into Individuals and Organizations’ – Russ Moxley (Jossey-Bass, 2000)

§  ‘The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders’ – John Zenger and Joseph Folkman (McGraw-Hill, 2002)

§  ‘Talent Flow: A Strategic Approach to Keeping Good Employees, Helping Them Grow and Letting Them Go’ – Robert Levin and Joseph Rosse (John Wiley & Sons, 2001)

§  ‘Growing Your Company’s Leaders’ – Robert Fulmer and Jay Conger (New York, 2004)

§  ‘The Inspirational Leader’ – John Adair (Kogan Page, 2003)

§  ‘Shackleton’s Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer’ – Alexandra Shackleton, Margot Morrel and Stephanie Capparell (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2001)

§  ‘The Art of Waking People Up: Cultivating Awareness and Authenticity at Work’ – Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith (Jossey-Bass, 2003)

‘101 Ways to Develop Your People Without Really Trying’ – Peter Honey (Peter Honey 

HAN-SF Event - Guest Speaker: David Leone

Keywords for my takeaways...
David Leone (partner at Sequoia Capital) at Autodesk Gallery

Profiles of entrepreneurs:
Iterate
Misfit
Underdog- (joke: oppressive mothers)

About SC -- they don't issue press releases (and the implication).
Act local. Think global.
Generational capital. 10x ipo
Capital. 1 trillion capital and investments -- get to one person in two emails.
Idiosyncratic not cogs. Not guided by rails.
Creditability. Clarity (think what is not being said). Courage. Conviction

VC/PE industry
Not these: Platform. Optionality. Model. Investment committee. Investors. AUM
But these: Inferno with single match. "As hire As". Vision-- Ciscos business is not selling routers but to "connect".
10 year fund cycle.

Other Anecdotes
Sale of Instagram -- SC was not consulted.
83 candidates for CEO at Google.

Cost of starting vs building
Altavista vs. google demo
J. Chambers & His Wife.
First order issue
70% profits to nonprofit.