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020 _a9781430210788
082 _a658.11 LIV-J
100 _aLivingston, Jessica
245 _aFounders at work :
_bstories of startups' early days /
_cJessica Livingston
260 _aNew York
_bSpringer Verlog
_c2008
300 _a466 p.
365 _aEU
_b22.99.
500 _aNearly 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. 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 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 _aNew business enterprises
650 _aElectronic industries
650 _aUnited States
650 _aSoftware engineering
650 _aComputer science
999 _c71670
_d71670