Produktinformation

• Amazon-Verkaufsrang: #60973 in Bücher
• Veröffentlicht am: 2007-01-17
• Abmessungen: 1.24" h x 6.32" b x 9.20" l, 1.67 Pfund
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• 476 Seiten

Kurzbeschreibung
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 tells of the early struggles for independence and acceptance of many of modern technology’s giants. Their stories are told through personal interviews that are at times hilarious, at times painful, but always inspiring. The personalities represented in this book are role models for all startup wannabes who are committed to their visions and want to know what the sacrifices (and excitement) are like. The book will appeal to anyone with an interest in what goes on in a startup. Though broad, the audience is segmented into three groups:- Technologists: The core readership will be technologists, nearly all of whom will at some point have thought about starting or working for a startup. For these readers, the aim is to collect such a fund of experience that it becomes a standard reference for anyone thinking of getting involved in a startup- Businesspeople: People in the business world will want to read Founders at Work because the stories are about the essence of business. The corporate world is ever more interested in what makes startups so productive and innovative, as the existence of magazines like Business 2.0 shows- General public: These stories are dramatic and funny, and they're about people getting rich. So as human-interest stories they will appeal to the same audience that enjoys reading about the Google founders in PEOPLE magazine. For such an audience, these stories should be exceptionally interesting, because they're about the early stages, when the founders were younger and inexperienced. Most readers know startup founders only as confident millionaires; as novices trying to find their way by trial and error, they're more human, and easier for the reader to identify with

Synopsis
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.

Über den Autor
Jessica Livingston is a partner in Y Combinator, a seed stage venture firm. She was previously VP of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness. She has a BA in English from Bucknell.