| Description |
xviii, 466 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Max Levchin: PayPal -- Sabeer Bhatia: Hotmail -- Steve Wozniak: Apple Computer -- Joe Kraus: Excite -- Dan Bricklin: Software Arts -- Mitchell Kapor: Lotus Development -- Ray Ozzie: Iris Associates, Groove Networks -- Evan Williams: Pyra Labs (Blogger.com) -- Tim Brady: Yahoo -- Mike Lazaridis: Research In Motion 141 -- Arthur van Hoff: Marimba -- Paul Buchheit: Gmai -- Steve Perlman: Web TV -- Mike Ramsay: TiVo -- Paul Graham: Viaweb -- Joshua Schachter: del.icio.us -- Mark Fletcher: ONElist, Bloglines -- Craig Newmark: craigslist -- Caterina Fake: Flickr -- Brewster Kahle: WAIS, Internet Archive, Alexa Internet -- Charles Geschke: Adobe Systems -- Ann Winblad: Open Systems, Hummer Winblad -- David Heinemeier Hansson: 37signals -- Philip Greenspun: ArsDigita -- Joel Spolsky: Fog Creek Software -- Stephen Kaufer: TripAdvisor -- James Hong: Hot or Not -- James Currier: Tickle -- Blake Ross: Firefox -- Mena Trott: Six Apart -- Bob Davis: Lycos -- Ron Gruner: Alliant Computer Systems, Shareholder.com -- Jessica Livingston: Y Combinator 447 |
| Summary |
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company. Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover? Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly on the wall at a successful startup, to learn how it's done. But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants to understand business, because startups are business reduced to its essence. The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businessesdo<U+2014>create value<U+2014>more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. How? What are the secrets that make successful startups so insanely productive? Read this book, and let the founders themselves tell you. |
| Subject |
New business enterprises -- United States -- Case studies.
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Electronic industries -- United States -- Case studies.
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| Genre |
Case studies.
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| ISBN |
9781430210788 (pbk.) |
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1430210788 (pbk.) |
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