Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

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Apress, 30.04.2007 - 458 Seiten

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.

 

Inhalt

CHAPTER
12
SABEER BHATIA
17
CHAPTER
25
STEVE WOZNIAK
31
JOE KRAUS
61
MITCHELL KAPOR
89
RAY OZZIE
103
TIM BRADY
127
del icio us
223
craigslist
247
WAIS Internet ArchiveAlexa Internet
265
Adobe Systems
281
Open Systems Hummer Winblad
297
Fog Creek Software
345
HOT or NOT
377
Firefox
395

MIKE LAZARIDIS
141
CHAPTER 30
161
TiVo
191
Viaweb
205
BOB DAVIS
419
INDEX
447
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Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Mountain View, California. She was previously vice president of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness. In addition to her work with startups at Y Combinator, she organizes Startup School (www.StartupSchool.org). She has a bachelor's degree in English from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

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