Eat People
An Unapologetic Plan for Entrepreneurial Success

Kessler is a smart and successful guy on a personal level, with quite the career history. However, this is just classic biz-reading crap. Fraught with hindsight bias and citations of other popular business books. Although his rules may be useful in a venture financing sense, his examples are almost a......more

An EXCELLENT book about business. The author expounds on business, politics, the economy and what actually makes a difference in the world. Along the way he identifies and takes to task those who claim moral high ground while causing poverty and suffering in their wake - "political entrepreneurs" li......more

I don't feel like this book really contributed anything new to me, but it did review some good topics: 1. When investing (either time or money) in specific companies or technologies, make sure to pick ones that leverage scale. If the company or technology costs 100 million dollars to make the first p......more

I liked the listing of rules- easy to follow and good advice for entrepreneurs. I will say the examples were heavy on the tech sector so for non techy people this is kinda hard to follow......more

I suppose the word Unapologetic in the title should alert you to the fact that he's slightly irreverent in his take on finding the next big thing. This book does an excellent job at articulating one of the most important concepts today: the difference between making money and making a difference. It......more