(I prefer getting as many of these on my Kindle to refer back as and when required)

Start here with Munger’s Worldly Wisdom:
http://www.paladinvest.com/pifiles/MungersWorldlyWisdom.htm

Books

The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham

Security Analysis – Ben Graham

Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage – Mary Buffett

The Great Investors – Lessons on Investing from Master Traders – Glen Arnold

The New Buffettology – Mary Buffett

Learn to Earn: A Beginner’s Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business – Peter Lynch

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life – Alice Schroeder

The Tao of Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett’s Words of Wisdom- Mary Buffett

The Warren Buffett Way – Robert G. Hagstrom

The Economics of Banking – Kent Matthews

Insurance Theory and Practice – Rob Thoyts

Regular Reading

Warren Buffett’s Shareholders Letters offer amazing insight on all the business models he invests in (Insurance, banking, food and drink etc etc)

FT.com web/mobile/ipad app

Barrons – great ipad app

Investor Chronicle – Good for UK company reports and Simon Thompson’s articles are always worth reading

GuruFocus.com – excellent historic data and comparisons

Seeking Alpha

MorningStar – great for historical fundamental data

Videos

2. Coffee? Get a good coffee machine, yes it’s a personal thing, but the smell of fresh coffee kick starts the morning for me.

3. Meet standing up. A meeting room is important but not essential. Stand up meetings around a PC are quick and to the point. Try change of scene and meet in the local coffee shop.

4. Look for flexibility. You never know what’s round the corner, keep the lease flexible to allow you to expand or contract as needed. In the current market great lease deals are for the taking, make sure to negotiate on rent and terms.

5. Big office toys are fun, but not essential. Staff most impressed by office toys probably aren’t the staff you need.

6. Use mobile phones, have as few landlines are necessary. In the UK you can get unlimited land line calls on a contract for £30 a month, then add a skype out monthly contract (6 Euros per month) to call worldwide landlines for free (thanks to JasonD for the tip)

7. Location. Think about location but remember its not everything, a dynamic company should be able to attract and retain excellent staff on the back of the business and culture rather than its office.

8. Wireless connectivity. Properly secured wireless is great and saves the need for cables everywhere.

9. Large screens and monitors. We’ve only recently done this, but now everyone has at least 24″ of screen to work with, it just seems to make life easier.

10. Simply entry & security. Keep office access features simple and practical (complex alarms, entry systems, etc tend to need admin time) if you’re small enough to work without these systems, then all the better.

11. Bin clutter ASAP. (I’m terrible at this!) if you haven’t used that stack of CD’s or out of date printer in 6 months find another home for it.

12. Use low tech networks. Low tech networks need low tech support which is cheap, sometimes less is more!

13. Secure your data & backup data off site. Double backup and secure heavily the mission critical stuff.

14. In town office space works. Chances are for a tech start up you’ve got a fairly young team, town centre means the team can arrive by public transport. Also lunch breaks can be used to best effect for people with busy lives.

15. Consider taking space in a shared environment. If you’re on your own, and just getting going, shared office space is a cost effective way to you out of the house (and out of your underpants) and allows you to meet new people in a similar situation for networking and business.

16. See if you local university has office space (Doug of CarRentals used this to great effect), space is normally cheap and flexible, networks are in place and talent is on the door step. The vibe of the university also seems to help.

Release your logo into the air as a bubble with Flogos. Thanks Tim for the link

Fact #1 Steve Jobs has Syrian roots.
After his birth in San Francisco to an American woman and a Syrian man he was given up for Adoption.

Fact #2 Atari and HP Turned Jobs Down.
Atari and Hewlett-Packard both turned down start-up funding requests from Jobs in the day:

So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.’

Fact #3 Jobs likes Gates photo credit: Seattlepi When interviewed live with Bill Gates Steve Jobs made friendly comments on their relationship referencing their long term “marriage”.	Fact #4 Jobs was a fruitarian photo credit: Dreamstime The name Apple was chosen because Apples were Steves favourite food at the time.	Fact #5 He’s not dead Bloomberg photo credit: Tombstonebuilder Bloomberg mistakenly published his 17 page obituary (29-08-2008 ) briefly before the mistake was rectified.
Fact #6 He’s an ex Hippie Please teach me Photoshop In his informative years Jobs travelled to India. Barefoot and threadbare he spent some months on the hippie trail in India, ’60s style.	Fact #7 Jobs paid $10m for Pixar photo credit: Pixar Mr Jobs purchased the computer division of Lucasfilm (of Starwars fame) in 1986 for $10 million and incorporated it independently as Pixar. Later Disney bought Pixar for $7.5 billion.	Fact #8 His catchphrases are… photo credit: Photobucket He favorite catch phrases are: “Un-be-lievable”; “Mere mortals”; “It’s huge” & “Wouldn’t it be great”. He tells the story and sells the dream, this character trait is common amongst successful entrepreneurs.
Fact #9 He’s got huge feet photo credit: Pixel Addict Steve has big feet, size 14 big. Perhaps he went barefoot in India because he couldn’t find any oversize shoes!	Fact #10 $1: Steves annual salary photo credit: bionicteaching As the Chairman and CEO of Apple Computers, he pays himself an annual salary of $1 per year.	Fact #11 Lazy parking habits photo credit: Cultofmac Some people are obsessional about catching Steve parking in Handicap spaces. Steve, you may have changed the world with your computers but you still can’t illegally park!

If today was the last day of my life would I want to do what I’m going to do today?

Thanks to Chriswrites for pointing me in the direction of this video of Steve Jobs talking at Stanford.