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Parkinson’s Law
Quick and easy read. This book is short but full of pearls. Published in 1957, but still very much current when it comes to predicting, understanding, and managing human beings. One of this ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
The Long Tail – Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Even if you don’t plan to read it, you can’t get away without understanding the phenomenon described by Chris Andersen in his book The Long Tail and expect to thrive in the age of the ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Wikinomics – How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
You know when a book is outdated when it mentions MySpace as the leading Social Network, and makes short references to Facebook. This book was once very relevant, but now it is so outdated that I ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Lucky or Smart? Fifty Pages For The First-Time Entrepreneur
Quick read, features some relevant lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs. I somewhat enjoyed the book, but wasn’t much impressed by it. Maybe it would be more useful if I’ve never read ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Start With Why – How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
If you’ve ever started a business, or tried to sell something, you’ll certainly recognize the patterns described by Simon Sinek. We think of the what to describe a product or service. ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Things I Learned About Life and Entrepreneurship While Learning How to Shoot with a Bow
I’ve just begun practicing, and did some classes to learn proper bow handling, form, aiming and shooting. It may seem easy to shoot with a bow – after all, it is just a bow and an ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Review: Content Rules – How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, eBooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business.
Creating a personal blog seems to be some sort of rite of passage that most internet users have gone through. Keeping up with it, is yet another rite that only a very small percentage of them ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Work like you Sleep
Ok, I’m not going to tell you to work like you sleep in the sense of how much work you get done out of your sleep time. Actually, there is a much more interesting perspective to that ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Loyalty Mobile
It looks like cell phones today have so many features that it is becoming less phone and more everything else. The new trend, when it comes to transforming your mobile phone into something else, ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Rework
Outstanding book for entrepreneurs looking into inspiration for addressing common development dilemmas like whether to reed to customer’s suggestions or how to approach software development ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Software Patents not worth the effort?
This week I read an article from Erik J. Heels, where he states that patents are not always worth a try for startups, mainly when it comes to software patents. Well, it happens that I have being ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion
I may have been the first person who bought Crush It! before knowing who Gary Vaynerchuk was and having never seen the Wine Library TV. The latter being of no surprise, since I don’t drink. ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
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