Blog in Narrative & Biography
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Book Review by Porchlight
Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz detail a process "for answering crucial questions through prototyping and testing ideas with customers" in just one workweek.
Categories: editors-choice, narrative-biography
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Blog / Excerpts
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy—And How to Make Them Work for You
By Porchlight
Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Paul Choudary explain how the platform revolution is transforming the world as we know it and the work we do & and are able to do—along the way.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2015 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist
By Porchlight
In which we announce our eight category winners, which become the finalists for our book of the year.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
We-Commerce : How to Create, Collaborate, and Succeed in the Sharing Economy
By Porchlight
Billee Howard dispels some of the doom and gloom of recent books on technology and its effects we've covered here lately.
Categories: jack-covert-selects, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
Inside the Longlist: Entrepreneurship
By Porchlight
Ryan Schleicher, who spends his days split between author services, corporate sales, and PR, takes a look inside this year's best Entrepreneurship titles.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / New Releases
More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys, Three Years, and a Chronicle of Ideals and Ambition in Silicon Valley
By Porchlight
A paperback edition of Jim Dyer's excellent account of "Diasporo," an ambitious social media project that sought (still seeks) to rival the giants and protect privacy.
Categories: new-releases, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2015 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Longlist
By Porchlight
These 40 books—five selections across eight distinct categories—make up the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Longlist.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works
By Porchlight
Roger L. Martin & Sally R. Osberg define and document the growing field of social entrepreneurship.
Categories: jack-covert-selects, narrative-biography
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream
By Porchlight
Clay Shirky dissects the state of globalization and its future by looking at the relationship of people to our smartphones, and the relationship of smartphones to the People's Republic of China.
Categories: jack-covert-selects, narrative-biography
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Genius, and Stationary Obsession
Book Review by Porchlight
James Ward weaves a narrative of invention, entrepreneurship, and sometimes empire through the everyday objects all around us.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography
