Best Entrepreneurship Books

[This post, with a shorter list, was published earlier. An updated version is being published today.]

As a self-taught entrepreneur, I have done my own digging into entrepreneurship literature. When I started writing my book series, Entrepreneur Journeys, I did a lot of thinking on what is it that I am looking for in an entrepreneurship book. This list is a synthesis of that research. I first published it in February of this year, and have added eleven new must-reads to the original ten. Take a look and join the discussion with your own recommendations. >>>

Mark Hoffman’s Fourth Run: Enquisite (Part 7)

SM: What is going on in the market that justifies Enquisite coming into it today?

MH: At the highest level, you have people switching off newspapers and magazines. Everyone is under a lot of pressure to deliver revenue. A lot of things are shifting to electronic commerce world and electronic advertising. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Enquisite

Enquisite is a newly launched search engine marketing company which offers marketers a unique solution to address their customer acquisition needs. For businesses that rely heavily on online traffic, Enquisite’s organic search marketing innovation promises to address an important gap in search marketing: driving more of the right organic search traffic. >>>

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Mark Hoffman’s Fourth Run: Enquisite (Part 6)

SM: What kind of revenue ramp did you see in Commerce One?

MH: We were doing about $200 million a quarter during our last big quarter. That was really from software sales, and a minimal amount from transaction revenues. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: EnterpriseDB

Deal Radar kicks the week off with yet another open source company, but one with rather large aspirations. EnterpriseDB was formed in an attempt to disrupt the three-company (Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft) oligopoly that controls the enterprise database market, of which Oracle owns more than half. The company says that as a result of this oligopoly, the market was exhibiting characteristics such as artificially high prices, strong-arm sales practices and vendor lock-in. EnterpriseDB was formed to provide enterprises with an alternative solution. >>>

Mark Hoffman’s Fourth Run: Enquisite (Part 5)

SM: What is the story of Commerce One? How did you get involved there?

MH: In 1995 I became the chairman of Sybase. It was a tough time in the market for database people and there were disagreements with the board. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: EJ2 On Kindle

Here is a summary of the posts from this past week, in case you missed them.  >>>