| Some specific things you should make sure you don't read too much about: - Anything about venture investment or finance related to fundraising, company valuation, liquidation preferences, etc. Your investors will tell you everything you need to know. - Management. There's really nothing here you need to know about. Hire fast, fire fast, have a ping-pong table and catered lunches. It's that simple. - Product development and project management. You are a visionary and everything you are doing is novel and innovative, so don't waste your time on these subjects. - Computer science. Really, it's nothing like it was 20 years ago when the only language was FORTRAN or whatever. Everything you need to know about building software you can learn from attending a talk or two at a conference, provided it doesn't interfere with networking. Just make sure you only go to node.js-related talks because everything else is old, outdated, and useless. Also, don't even bother worrying about databases. MongoDB is the only thing you need. - Marketing. This is especially useless since product is everything. Just build your product, put it online, make the app live in the app store, and go back to iterating on your product. They will come. You can get any knowledge you need related to any of this by just building a business. Since you are clearly going to be the next Steve Jobs, you don't have time to waste reading useless things. |
- Computer science. Your only job here is just to make sure that you have a cofounder who is a ninja. You need to get deep on this, make sure they're the real thing. If you need to, consult with faculty: http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/people/historiographical-institu... Only a real ninja will make you a millionaire.