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A passionate, first person account of the visions, sacrifices, and rewards of modern technology giants
The collection of people being interviewed is a Who’s Who of tech startups
The emphasis is on the earliest stage of startups, not the part when the company is big and boring
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Founders at Work
Book Subtitle: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Authors: Jessica Livingston
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0327-8
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Jessica Livingston 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-714-9Published: 26 January 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-2034-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0327-8Published: 30 April 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 458
Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems