Management
A working reference on leadership, strategy, brand and negotiation built from Malik, Collins, Welch, Horowitz and others, checked against current research rather than repeated as folklore. Covers what actually predicts good leadership, how to set direction and negotiate well, and the Swiss legal mechanics around company control and takeovers.

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Startups
Everything from validating an idea to closing a funding round: business models, market analysis, pitching, term sheets and employee equity, with a Swiss lens throughout. Built for someone who wants to understand how startups actually get built and funded, not fill out a competition form.

Startups Summary

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Investing
A synthesis of value investing, portfolio construction and market mechanics, built around real cases where confident, well-reasoned strategies still failed. It’s less about picking winners and more about understanding why frameworks work until, suddenly, they don’t.

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Sales
Eight widely circulated sales sources consolidated into one graded reference, with every load-bearing claim checked against the primary research. It separates what holds up from what does not, including tactics still taught today that failed replication, and covers the DACH legal constraints the American sources ignore.

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Swiss Pension
Reframes the second and third pillar as what they actually are: a large, illiquid position belonging in your total portfolio, not a government program to ignore. Covers the mechanics behind it and the few decisions, like 1e plans, buy-in timing, and capital vs. pension at retirement, that are genuinely yours.

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Do your own research. No investment/tax/legal advice. Disclaimer here.

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Taleb

• How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

• Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler

• Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Blake Masters & Peter Thiel

• Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World’s Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life by William Green

• A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Edward O. Thorp

• The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It by Scott Patterson

• "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman & Ralph Leighton

• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

• Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus

• The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman

Fiction

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

• The Rebel Allocator by Jacob Taylor

• 1984 by Georg Orwell

• Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit by Sten Nadolny

• Die Physiker by Friedrich Durrenmatt

• Schule der Lügen by Wolfram Fleischhauer

• Der Menschen Hörigkeit by W. Somerset Maugham

• Cointelegraph: Decentralized finance: The best ways to participate and operate

• BeInCrypto: Wieso aktiv verwaltete Anlagestrategien wichtig sind

• GenTwo: Enabling easy access to actively managed crypto hedge funds through AMCs

• Nebelspalter: Wenn Alt auf Neu trifft: Die Digitalisierung der Gold Industrie – Swiss Made

Interviews

• Fundview: Schweizer Dachfonds über Krypto-Strategien: "Es ist auch viel Schund dabei"

• Fundscene: Aktive Anlagestrategien im Krypto Universum

• Beyond Bitcoin: Ep 68 "Fortune Favours the Informed"

• Moneycab: Marc Seidel, Partner Alternative Investments bei BFI Consulting, im Interview

• Shopify: Ein Produkt, ein Baum: Wie sich ein Google- und ein Facebook-Mitarbeiter in der Schweiz für den Umweltschutz einsetzen

Do your own research. No investment/tax/legal advice. Disclaimer here.

• Naval: Curate People

• Naval: In the Arena

• Founders #399 How Elon Works

• Founders #355 Rare Bernard Arnault Interview

• All-In Pod E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more

• All-In Pod E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner

• All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #548: The Lost Presentation That Launched The 4-Hour Workweek — “Secrets of Doing More with Less in a Digital World”

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #651: Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and More

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #682: Bill Gurley Interviews Tim Ferriss — Reflecting on 20+ Years of Life and Business Experiments

Books

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

• The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less by Sahil Lavingia

• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss

• The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki

• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Reis

• How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets by Felix Dennis

Articles

• The untapped potential of employee stock options by Index Ventures

• Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity by Marc Andreessen

• Pmarca Guide to Startups by Marc Andreessen

• Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs by Reid Hoffman

• How To Be Successful by Sam Altman

• How much should you pay yourself? by Christoph Janz

Twitter Account List

• VC/Startup

Twitter Accounts

• Sahil Lavingia (@shl)

• Marc Andreessen (@pmarca)

• Tim Ferriss (@tferriss)

• Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom)

• Naval Ravikant (@naval)

• Bill Gurley (@bgurley)

• Brad Gerstner (@altcap)

Tweets

• Asymmetric opportunities (@NavalismHQ)

• 50 Timeless @naval quotes visualised (@drex_jpg)

• My 14 "must use" no-code tools (@JustinSaaS)

• Naval 's rules (@DhananjayAtkale)

• 5 powerful mental models to help you win in a competitive world (@SahilBloom)

• How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) (@naval)

• Here's the simple 7 step framework to help you master storytelling (@heykahn)

Models / Approaches

• Business Model Canvas

• Value Proposition Canvas

• Porter's Five Forces

• The Art of the Pitch

• SWOT Analysis Model and Examples

Syndicates / Investment Pooling Tools

• AngelList (investment club US)

• leva.pe (tool CH)

• Konsento (tool CH)

• SISAT (contract CH)

• Swisspreneur Syndicate (investment club CH)

• The Syndicate (investment club US)

Tools / Services

• Airtable (collaboration)

• Bubble (no-code platform for digital products)

• Beehiiv (blog, newsletter with paywall function)

• Beautiful.ai (AI based presentation builder)

• Browse.ai (easy way to extract data from websites)

• Carrd (low cost website builder)

• Canva (free design tool)

• Customer.io (automated messaging platform)

• Cortado Mail (bundle all your updates into one email)

• Calendly (calendar bookings)

• ElevenLabs (text to speech and voice cloning software)

• Figma (collaborative design tool)

• GoDaddy (domain host)

• Gumroad (sell goods and services - no fixed fee)

• iA.net (focused writing)

• Loom (make video recordings)

• Loka (talent platform for engineering)

• Product Hunt (product launches)

• Squarespace (website builder)

• Shopify (plug & play ecommerce builder)

• Stripe (payment processing)

• Softr (no-code tool/MVP building with Airtable and Google Sheets)

• Substack (blog, newsletter with paywall function)

• Super (create a website using Notion)

• Typeform (dynamic designed forms)

• Trello (project/product roadmap management)

• Makerpad (no-code app/website builder)

• Medium (blog, newsletter with paywall function)

• Mailchimp (advanced newsletter tool)

• Notion (project management)

• Webflow (website builder)

• Zapier (app automation)

• 99Designs (logo, website, brand design)

Do your own research. No investment/tax/legal advice. Disclaimer here.

• Founders #363 Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett

• Founders #364 Nick & Zak's Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep and Qais Zaharia Built Their Investment Partnership

• We Study Billionaires | RWH003: How To Win The Investing Game w/ Joel Greenblatt

• We Study Billionaires | TIP465: Value Investing in the Digital Age w/ Adam Seessel

• We Study Billionaires | Classic 02: Tony Robbins’ Book – Money, Master the Game

• We Study Billionaires | TIP410: The Changing World Order W/ Ray Dalio

• We Study Billionaires | TIP398: Wisdom from the Greatest Investors w/ William Green

• We Study Billionaires | TIP378: Move Forward with Caution w/ Howard Marks

• We Study Billionaires | RWH023: Defensive Investing In Dangerous Times W/ Guy Spier

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #596: Edward O. Thorp, A Man For All Markets — Beating Blackjack and Roulette, Beating the Stock Market, Spotting Bernie Madoff Early, and Knowing When Enough is Enough

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #651: Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and More

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #264: Ray Dalio, The Steve Jobs of Investing

• The Pomp Podcast | #1198: Anthony Pompliano Reveals His Investing Secrets

• View From The Top | S8E7: Ken Griffin Still Checks His P&L

Books

• Nomad Partnership Letters by Nick Sleep and Qais Zakaria

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Taleb

• Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Taleb

• The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks

• Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

• The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman

• The Rebel Allocator by Jacob Taylor

• MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins

• Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life by William Green

• Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders by Warren Buffet

• Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

• The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns by Mohnish Pabrai

• The Little Book That Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt

• A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Edward O. Thorp

• Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager

Twitter Account List

• Investing (X account list)

Articles

• Know Your Edge As A VC, The Complete Series by Cambrial Capital

• Key Economic Indicators Every Investor Should Know by FINRA.org

• The Melt-Up Before the Collapse: Building a Testable Thesis in Real Time Across Equities and Bitcoin by Capital Flows

• The jackpot age by Scimitar Capital

Tools

• TradingView charting platform and social network for traders and investors.

Do your own research. No investment/tax/legal advice. Disclaimer here.

• Naval | Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1

• Naval | Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #606: Balaji S. Srinivasan — The Network State and How to Start a New Country

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #547: Balaji Srinivasan — Centralized China vs Decentralized World, The DeFi Matrix, Ascending vs Descending Trends, Bitcoin Mining as Energy Storage, Reputational Civil War, and Maximalism vs. Optimalism

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #542: Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #504: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant)

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #473: Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Reducing Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #627: Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase — The Art of Relentless Focus, Preparing for Full-Contact Entrepreneurship, Critical Forks in the Path, Handling Haters, The Wisdom of Paul Graham, Epigenetic Reprogramming, and Much More

• We Study Billionaires | BTC005: Bitcoin & Michael Saylor - A Masterclass in Economic Calculation

• We Study Billionaires | BTC074: Bitcoin is Property w/ Eric Weiss

• Millennial Investing | MI176: A Masterclass on Bitcoin Self-Custody w/ Tyler Campbell

• The Pomp Podcast | #749 This Bitcoin Conversation Blew My Mind w/ Jason Lowery

• Lex Fridman Podcast | #307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation

• Lex Fridman Podcast | #188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

• Lex Fridman Podcast | #173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates

• Lex Fridman Podcast | #171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin

• Bankless | #90 - 5 Mental Models for Web3 | Chris Dixon

• Bankless | #120 - Reinventing the Internet | Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon of a16z

• What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack | #WBD529: The Role of Bitcoin Maximalism with Udi Wertheimer

• Decypher | Ep 16 - "I Want to Be the Best Crypto Investor in the World" - Santiago Santos

• Decypher | Ep 15 - From College Dropout to Crypto Megafund Manager: Haseeb Qureshi - Dragonfly Capital

Reading

• Bitcoin Whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto

• The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous

• The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth

• Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy by Melanie Swan

• Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Is Changing the World by Don Tapscott

• Bank to the Future by Simon Dixon

• Bitcoin’s Energy Usage Isn’t a Problem. Here’s Why. by Lyn Alden

• Crypto VC portfolio construction: the LP's perspective by The Block

Videos

• Peter Van Valkenburg explains Bitcoin

Twitter Account Lists

• Crypto

• NFTs

• Memes

Twitter Accounts

• Preston Pysh (@PrestonPysh)

• Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano (@APompliano)

• Jeff Dorman, CFA (@jdorman81)

• Lyn Alden (@LynAldenContact)

• Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis)

• Jack Mallers (@jackmallers)

• Kathryn Haun (@katie_haun)

• Michael Saylor (@saylor)

• Chris Dixon (@Cdixon)

• 6529 (@punk6529)

• Nick Hotz (@Nick_Hotz)

Tweets

• Collected web3 twitter threads (@cdixon)

• The Tim Ferriss Show #542 featuring @cdixon @naval: A visual summary (@drex_jpg)

• Crypto vs blockchain vs web3 (@richerd)

• Bitcoin is too complicated… Ok, explain me fiat money. (@visbitcoin)

• Plan B's S2F and S2FX articles (@100trillionUSD)

• In web2, you are just borrowing things — until the actual owners change their mind. (@cdixon)

• The promise of web3 in the latest issue of The Economist (@cdixon)

Education

• a16z's Crypto Startup School

• Certified Crypto Finance Expert

• ​Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme

Associations

• Crypto Valley Association

• MAMA

• Bitcoin Association Switzerland

News Platforms

• Decrypt

• CoinDesk

• Crypto Banter

• Cointelegraph

• Bitcoin Magazine

• CryptoFund.News

• Blockworks

• A16Z Future

• The Block Crypto

Custody

• Unchained Capital

• Trezor

• Ledger

• Keys.Casa

• MetaMask

• Coinbase Wallet

• MyEtherWallet

Services / Tools

• Arkham

• BlockSpaces

• Crypto Fees

• Mirror.xyz

• Unstoppable Domains

• Ultra Sound Money

• ENS Domains

• Open-Orgs.info

• Rarity.tools

• L2BEAT

Do your own research. No investment/tax/legal advice. Disclaimer here.