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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.11
EAN: 9781590597149
ISBN: 1590597141
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 500
Publication Date: January 22, 2007
Publisher: Apress
Studio: Apress
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Editorial Review:
For would-be entrepreneurs, innovation managers or just anyone fascinated by the special chemistry and drive that created some of the best technology companies in the world, this book offers both wisdom and engaging insights—straight from the source.
— Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, and author of The Long Tail
"All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money and (b) not having done it before, ever." —Steve Wozniak, Apple
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—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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good for the area it covers.
This is a good book on what it took for 32 entrepreneurs to become successful in the technology field. However it is focused only on the technology field. If that is your area of interest this would be a great book for you to read. But if your area of interest is startups in another field you would be disappointed by this book. Great for the area it covers, and it does give many insights that could be adapted to other fields, but for me it was too narrow a view of entrepreneurship.
Rating:  - Great readings
Great book! Very fun stories to read, during which you can't stop wishing you were one of those lucky guys :)
Rating: - exploring the entrepenourial mind
Great Book! Makes me want to re-join a dot com. Gives insight into why they succeeded, and love the task, it wasn't a job, it wasn't about the money, it was the love for what they were doing.
Rating: - Nice read...
The best thing about this book is that it's real. It shows the uncertainties, the highs and the lows of every startup... If you want to read a tale or fantasy about how companies grow, this book is not for you. If you want to know the strength, weaknesses, and "craziness" of some who wanted to have their own startups, it's worth to read. You might want to read this too if you are starting your own project or company.
Rating: - Insightful.
This book is insightful. It's especially nice that I can just pick it up, read one review and not come back to the book for a while. Nicely compartmented.
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