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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups Early Days View Larger Image | Jessica Livingston
Apress, Paperback, Published January 2007, 500 pages, ISBN 1590597141 | List Price: $25.99
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"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."
-- Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, and
author of The Long Tail
"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
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Max Levchin - Paypal
Chapter 2 Sabeer Bhatia - Hotmail
Chapter 3 Steve Wozniak - Apple Computer
Chapter 4 Joe Kraus - Excite
Chapter 5 Dan Bricklin - Software Arts
Chapter 6 Mitchell Kapor - Lotus Development
Chapter 7 Ray Ozzie - Iris Associates, Groove Networks
Chapter 8 Evan Williams - Pyra Labs (Blogger.Com)
Chapter 9 Tim Brady - Yahoo
Chapter 10 Mike Lazaridis - Research In Motion
Chapter 11 Arthur Van Hoff - Marimba
Chapter 12 Paul Buchheit - Gmail
Chapter 13 Steve Perlman - Webtv
Chapter 14 Mike Ramsay - Tivo
Chapter 15 Paul Graham - Viaweb
Chapter 16 Joshua Schachter - Del.Icio.Us
Chapter 17 Mark Fletcher - Onelist, Bloglines
Chapter 18 Craig Newmark - Craigslist
Chapter 19 Caterina Fake - Flickr
Chapter 20 Brewster Kahle Wais, Internet Archive, Alexa Internet
Chapter 21 Charles Geschke - Adobe Systems
Chapter 22 Ann Winblad - Open Systems, Hummer Winblad
Chapter 23 David Heinemeier Hansson - 37signals
Chapter 24 Philip Greenspun - Arsdigita
Chapter 25 Joel Spolsky - Fog Creek Software
Chapter 26 Stephen Kaufer - Tripadvisor
Chapter 27 James Hong - Hot Or Not
Chapter 28 James Currier - Tickle
Chapter 29 Blake Ross - Firefox
Chapter 30 Mena Trott - Six Apart
Chapter 31 Bob Davis - Lycos
Chapter 32 Ron Gruner - Alliant Computer Systems, Shareholder.Com
Index
About the Author
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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