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I never liked founders at work, there's nothing in there which you could learn. Here's the rating which I would to the book just like what Derek sivers did 2/10 - http://sivers.org/book/FoundersAtWork . It just turns out Jessica and PG has tons of influence in hacker community that's why you here her book being recommended all the time.
Alternative : Try Venture capitalist at work by Tarang Shah
http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Capitalists-Work-Billion-Dolla...
http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-VC-Game-Venture-Start-up/dp/...
http://www.amazon.com/The-Startup-Game-Partnership-Entrepren...
http://www.amazon.com/Term-Sheets-Valuations-Intricacies-Big...
http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Capitalists-Work-Billion-Dolla...
http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Venture-Capital-Serious-Entrep...
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Start-Time-Tested-Battle-Harde...
I believe any one or more of those will get you going in the right direction. All of those I've either read, or have seen recommended highly enough by people I trust, that I feel comfortable recommending them. The Guy Kawasaki book is a good, basic introduction to starting a startup, although it's a little old now. I think most of it is still relevant though.
A lot of this stuff is probably on the 'net as well, but you may have to dig around for it a bit. Quora has a lot of good questions (and good answers) on VC / startup topics, so that might be worth a look. Also, a number of high profile VCs maintain blogs where they share a lot of useful information. Mark Suster comes to mind (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/) and does Brad Feld (http://www.feld.com/wp/). Note that Brad Feld is the author of one of the above books.