Founders at work : (Record no. 71670)
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| fixed length control field | 220208b2008 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781430210788 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 658.11 LIV-J |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Livingston, Jessica |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Founders at work : |
| Remainder of title | stories of startups' early days / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Jessica Livingston |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Springer Verlog |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2008 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 466 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | EU |
| Price amount | 22.99. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. If you're one of these people, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly on the wall at a successful one, 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 businesses do - create value - more intensively than any other part of the economy. The lessons startups can teach about productivity are lessons that almost everyone will be able to use in their own work. 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.<br/><br/>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?<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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 businesses do―create value―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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | New business enterprises |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Electronic industries |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | United States |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Software engineering |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Computer science |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | 650 | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | General Stack (For lending) | 08/02/2022 | 22.99 | 6 | 658.11 LIV-J | 44784 | 09/02/2025 | 21/01/2025 | 08/02/2022 | Books |