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Smart Start-Ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 659.2
EAN: 9780470107423
ISBN: 0470107421
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: May 18, 2007
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
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Editorial Review:
Praise for Smart Start-Ups
"Silver's new book is a masterpiece of clarity concerning the next great entrepreneurial wave, and my only problem with it was the charley horse in my elbow I got turning the pages."
-Robin Richards, founding President, MP3.com, and CEO, Notification Technologies Inc.
"Silver is a modern-day Prometheus. For community entrepreneurs, Smart Start-Ups contains the secrets of fire from the heavens. If you work with communities of any kind, you ignore this book at your own peril."
-John Szeder, former senior game developer, Digital Chocolate, Inc., and CEO, Mofactor, Inc.
"Silver dives in and pulls the naked truth out of the world of online communities. There's nothing like it on the shelves. He speaks with the best and brightest in the mobile and online community markets."
-Sean Malatesta, founder, Yack Media Services, and Vice President, Indiagames, Inc.
"Smart Start-Ups is a must-read for any aspiring Internet entrepreneur. Silver cuts right to the heart of the important fact that communities are like entire nations, but without geographic borders, and they're creating the greatest transformation since the Industrial Revolution."
-Clarence Briggs, founder and CEO, AIT.com
"Silver's book is an excellent, captivating, ingenious, and essential read for anyone who wants to know how to create wealth by starting an online community. One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way; Silver certainly succeeds in that respect."
-Kyle E. Gillman, founder and CEO, Forgefinder, Inc.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great overview, but do your own research
I bought this book to get an overview of the social networking space. I found it very valuable. He does a good job laying out the space, the levers to use, etc. It gives you a good idea of how to think as a socnet business person. This space changes very fast, so a lot of the ideas are already being implemented in various forms. Its emphasis of mobile over online is debatable two years on. verall, great for someone who is not too familiar with the space.
Rating:  - Mindblowing with a wealth of knowledge
Unbelievable amount of research on the topic. Finished the book in two sittings because I couldn't put it down. The formula for starting a great business is priceless. I've never read anything that helped break down the different channels of revenue which is very important if you want to start an online community. I enjoyed the chapter about product formation. Having a community that will help solve a huge problem is very important. The bigger the problem, the more someone will pay to join. ... Read More
Rating: - Great Book - Provides Tools and Invaluable Suggestions
David Silver's "Smart Start-Ups" is by far the best book I've read about social communities. Besides providing terrific examples of communities that work, Silver offers a concrete recipe for internet entrepreneurs in the form of his "First Law of Entrepreneurship" and "The Eight DEJ Factors" (DEJ = Demonstrable Economic Justification). At a time when some venture capitalists question the traditional community business model, focused on advertising, this business veteran tells serious readers how to ... Read More
Rating: - Inspirational and useful at once!
After several conversations with friends regarding starting a social network I have been passionate about, I was wandering the aisles of our local bookstore, looking for inspiration and advice. And I am so glad I chanced upon David Silver's book.
David's book is at once encouraging and fact-filled. He comes across as a financier with a heart, who understands the psychology of entrepreneurs and entrepreneur-wannabes intimately, while have a time-tested point of view of what it takes to ... Read More
Rating: - wow, the book for community entrepreneurs !!!
David Silver's hypothesis is that the period of 2007 - 2010 is the greatest opportunity for community entrepreneurship in the economic history. if you belief too that we live in the "age of communities", that you have what it takes to launch a useful, sustainable and profitable community, David's book is a MUST READ. his enthusiasm for communities is very addicitive and ... his got credibility; four decades of experience as an entrepreneur/angel/VC. David shows without going into much details which industries ... Read More
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