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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.

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Startups run counter to the typical idea of a business, yet are arguably the most productive part of the economy. Focusing on their earliest generally most productive phase, Livingstone (founding partner of a seed-stage venture firm, Cambridge, Massachusetts), thus introduces her interviews with the founders (pictured) of some 30 innovative companies that became successful in the electronic technology sector: e.g., Apple Computer, craigslist, PayPal, TiVo, and Yahoo!
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Startups run counter to the typical idea of a business, yet are arguably the most productive part of the economy. Focusing on their earliest generally most productive phase, Livingstone (founding partner of a seed-stage venture firm, Cambridge, Massachusetts), thus introduces her interviews with the founders (pictured) of some 30 innovative companies that became successful in the electronic technology sector: e.g., Apple Computer, craigslist, PayPal, TiVo, and Yahoo! Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Livingston presents a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. Includes interviews with Steve Wozniak (Apple), Max Levchin (PayPal), and others.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781590597149
Author:
Livingston, Jessica
Publisher:
Apress
Subject:
Entrepreneurship
Subject:
New Business Enterprises
Subject:
Electronic industries
Subject:
New business enterprises -- United States.
Subject:
Electronic industries -- United States.
Subject:
Business-Start Up Business
Copyright:
2007
Edition Description:
Parental Adviso
Publication Date:
20070131
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
456
Dimensions:
9.20x6.32x1.24 in. 1.67 lbs.
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