I'm thinking about starting my own company in the next 3-5 years, and I'm looking to start preparing the building blocks for it. Any good books that would help me get ready for the real world?

I've given this issue a lot of thought, and if it were achievable, I would definitely want to go forward with it.

I'm currently an undergrad student who wants to go the phD then research path.

I'm thinking about building a not-for-profit research organization, and recruit researchers with similar goals to mine, in order to work along side me to reach our goals faster.

Putting aside all the issues relating to personal academic and research achievements, there are some other problems:

• Such a thing would probably require an extremely large network. My network is currently at Zero people, but I'm planning on changing that starting with Grad school.

• I will have to recruit both researchers and technicians, most of which will be more known, more influential, and more knowledgeable than me in their field.

• I will have to convince investors that my idea isn't just some whack attempt, and that it actually has potential. I will have no actual product to sell for the next 20-30-40 years. The only thing that would maybe bring in money to the company outside of investors are patents (but having patents will require a well functioning/successful company to start with)

• I will need to influence people's opinions on the specific topic I'm working on, so that they can work with me.

• I will need to not lose people whose opinions I have already won going forward. I will have to aggregate a number of people on my side before I can push through with the idea (or that's how I think it should be).

There are probably more things that need to be done that I simply don't know of.

Any books that would help guide me through these issues, and the general gist of starting a company and recruiting people who are better than you?

I'm reading Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people" right now, and I'm liking it, but I'm afraid that these stuff are a bit too old/stale/people know better/are more nuanced now (but I might be wrong).

Any suggestions on books that you'd think would help me with communication or building the base would be very appreciated.