Now available in paperbackwith a new preface and interview with
Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator
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 docreate valuemore 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.
General
Imprint: |
Apress
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Country of origin: |
Germany |
Release date: |
September 2008 |
First published: |
October 2008 |
Authors: |
Jessica Livingston
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Dimensions: |
227 x 161 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
466 |
Edition: |
1st Corrected ed., Corr. 4th printing |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4302-1078-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Computing & IT >
General theory of computing >
General
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LSN: |
1-4302-1078-8 |
Barcode: |
9781430210788 |
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