# Product Coaching/courses 1. [How to Do Great Work](https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html) - classic essay from Paul Graham. It’s worth reading to understand if product is the right role for you. He lays out a simply recipe for doing great work: work hard on excitingly ambitious projects, and something good will come of it. 2. [Product management courses on Maven | Unlock your career growth](https://maven.com/courses/product) 3. [Stanford MS&E 265](https://sites.google.com/site/mse265pm101/home) - great self-paced PM course from Stanford. Lots of great templates. 4. [Lean Stack workshops](https://leanstack.com/training/workshops), Ash Maruya 5. [List of PM courses](https://productcoalition.com/a-comprehensive-list-of-product-management-courses-522ad0b96b75) 6. [https://www.venwise.com/experience](https://www.venwise.com/cities-leaders/) - more focused on growth-stage startups. They support “pods” of leaders across different disciplines. 7. Basically everything from Shreyas, e.g. 8. [How to Become Unbeatable: On Learning Strategy, Building Your Model, and Being a Learning Machine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwRu_DUI-ZE) Commercial coaching options - [Product By Mark | Product by Mark](https://www.productbymark.com/) # **General References** ### **Books** Skewed toward entrepreneurship: 1. [Crossing the Chasm](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61329.Crossing_the_Chasm?from_search=true), Geoffrey Moore 2. [Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters](https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Difference-Matters/dp/0307886239) ([good notes](https://jlzych.com/2018/06/27/notes-from-good-strategy-bad-strategy/)) 3. [Getting Things Done](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done), David Allen 4. [Getting to Yes](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313605.Getting_to_Yes), Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton 5. [High Output Management](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324750.High_Output_Management), Andy Grove 6. [Innovator’s Dilemma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma), Clayton M. Christensen 7. [Lean Analytics](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16033602-lean-analytics), Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz 8. [Scaling Lean](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26895164-scaling-lean), Ash Maurya 9. [Shackleton’s Way](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222230.Shackleton_s_Way), Margot Morrell 10. [Startup Owner’s Manual](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13557008-the-startup-owner-s-manual), Steve Blank 11. [The Hard Thing About Hard Things](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things), Ben Horowitz 12. [Traction](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22091581-traction), Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares 13. [Value Proposition Design](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22337524-value-proposition-design), Alexander Osterwalder 14. [Zero to One](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one), Peter Thiel Book lists 1. [Books for Product Managers](https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/100164.Books_for_Product_Managers), Goodread ### **Videos/Podcasts** 1. [10x not 10%](https://vimeo.com/141675862), Ken Norton 2. [Building a Great Software Business](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqnWbQqzJCg), Dharmesh Shah (Hubspot) 3. [Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership Series](https://ecorner.stanford.edu/series/etl/), Stanford -- speaker series