Founders at work : stories of startups' early days / Jessica Livingston.
By: Livingston, Jessica [author]
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BookPublisher: Berkeley, CA : Apress ; [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xiv, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781590597149 (hardback); 9781430210788 (paperback).Subject(s): New business enterprises -- United States -- Case studies | Electronic industries -- United States -- Case studiesAdditional physical formats: Electronic version: Founders at work : stories of startups' early daysDDC classification: 658.11 Also available in electronic form.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes index.
Also available in electronic form.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. ix)
- Aknowledgments (p. xi)
- Introduction (p. xiii)
- Chapter 1 PayPal (p. 1)
- Chapter 2 Hotmail (p. 17)
- Chapter 3 Apple Computer (p. 31)
- Chapter 4 Excite (p. 61)
- Chapter 5 Software Arts (p. 73)
- Chapter 6 Lotus Development (p. 89)
- Chapter 7 Iris Associates, Groove Networks (p. 103)
- Chapter 8 Pyra Labs (Blogger.com) (p. 111)
- Chapter 9 Yahoo (p. 127)
- Chapter 10 Research In Motion (p. 141)
- Chapter 11 Marimba (p. 153)
- Chapter 12 Gmail (p. 161)
- Chapter 13 WebTV (p. 173)
- Chapter 14 TiVo (p. 191)
- Chapter 15 Viaweb (p. 205)
- Chapter 16 del.icio.us (p. 223)
- Chapter 17 Onelist, Bloglines (p. 233)
- Chapter 18 Craigslist (p. 247)
- Chapter 19 Flickr (p. 257)
- Chapter 20 Wais, Internet Archive, Alexa Internet (p. 265)
- Chapter 21 Adobe Systems (p. 281)
- Chapter 22 Open Systems, Hummer Winblad (p. 297)
- Chapter 23 37 signals (p. 309)
- Chapter 24 ArsDigita (p. 317)
- Chapter 25 Fog Creek Software (p. 345)
- Chapter 26 TripAdvisor (p. 361)
- Chapter 27 Hot or Not (p. 377)
- Chapter 28 Tickle (p. 387)
- Chapter 29 Firefox (p. 395)
- Chapter 30 Six Apart (p. 405)
- Chapter 31 Lycos (p. 419)
- Chapter 32 Alliant Computer Systems, Shareholder.com (p. 427)
- Index (p. 447)