Reality check

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Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki is excellent, and covers everything from PR to marketing to legal. Some parts are advice on how to approach various aspects of starting up while other parts are more "nuts and bolts." (on average, the book stays somewhere between those two slants) http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Check-Outsmarting-Outmanaging-... is e

"Presentationzen" by Garr Reynolds and "Slide:ology" by Nancy Duarte will be exceedingly helpful to you. Here are links to their blogs and Amazon descriptions. Good luck! http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321525655/103-6148611-3957... http://blog.duarte.com/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596522347?ie=UTF8&tag=... You should also find a copy of Guy Kawasaki's "Reality Check" or "The art of the start". Even if you don't have enough time to push through the whole book, just read the chapter on pitching. Should be very helpful.

Books I wish I had on my bookshelf: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us (Seth Godin, Oct. 21st) Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't (Malcolm Gladwell, Nov. 18th) Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition (Guy Kawasaki, Oct. 30th) If you're the kind of person who lines up at bookstores to get the newest non-fiction books the day they come out then it's going to be an awesome fall.