This book is already a couple of years old, but for me it is still an inspiration from time to time.

The full title is Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Ap) and it is basically about the early stage of a couple of big IT companies such as Adobe, Apple, hotornot.com, Hotmail, Paypal or Yahoo!. To see how most of them developed from a small company in a garage to a multi-million dollar company is quite amazing.