false 98233 3 <div id = "quote"><blockquote><p>For would-be entrepreneurs, innovation managers or just anyone fascinated by the special chemistry and drive that created some of the best technology companies in the world, this book offers both wisdom and engaging insights—straight from the source.</p></blockquote><p id="quoteAuthor">— Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, and author of The Long Tail</p></div><blockquote><p>"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</p></blockquote><p><i>Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days</i> 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.</p><p>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?</p><p>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.</p><p>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 businessesdo—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.</p> 94691 2001 Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days total:232|5:85|4:92|3:45|2:7|1:3| 232 945 463 46 5 2 false false Tue Jun 19 19:31:18 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 12:40:53 -0700 2007
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There is a tech bent to the book (some chapters are quite technical and will bore the non-tech crowd), but if you are inte...more...]]> 4 0 true false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 15:36:10 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 14:56:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 true false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 22:00:07 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 21:21:50 -0700 2008 1
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If you think you are the entrepreneur kinds, this book is a must read.

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The stories are interesting, and most of the people interviewed are interesting as well, but reading the dialog is like scraping your face on a cheese grater... it hurts...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 08:23:28 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 08:25:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Feb 18 04:39:18 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 17:48:02 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 04:38:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 20 12:23:21 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 20 12:34:18 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 05 14:57:20 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 15:00:33 -0800 2008
1) you need persistence
2) you have to be flexible

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