Founders at Work

Stories of Startups' Early Days

Jessica Livingston

460 pages, parution le 17/01/2007

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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.

L'auteur - Jessica Livingston

Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm based in Cambridge, MA, and Mountain View, CA. She was previously VP of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness. In addition to her work with startups at Y Combinator, she organizes Startup School. She has a BA in English from Bucknell.

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MAX LEVCHIN : PayPal
SABEER BHATIA : Hotmail.
STEVE WOZNIAK : Apple Computer
JOE KRAUS : Excite
DAN BRICKLIN : Software Arts
MITCHELL KAPOR : Lotus Development
RAY OZZIE : Iris Associates, Groove Networks
EVAN WILLIAMS : Pyra Labs (Blogger.com)
TIM BRADY : Yahoo
MIKE LAZARIDIS : Research In Motion
ARTHUR VAN HOFF : Marimba
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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Apress
Auteur(s)	Jessica Livingston
Parution	17/01/2007
Nb. de pages	460
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	770g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781590597149
ISBN13	978-1-59059-714-9