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Fire in the Valley, 3rd Edition
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Fire in the Valley, 3rd Edition

by Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger
October 2014
Beginner to intermediate
424 pages
12h 43m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
Content preview from Fire in the Valley, 3rd Edition

The Bottom Line

If they have a contest as to who is the best negotiator in the industry, I’ll withdraw to Seymour’s fine abilities. Seymour is a master. And I was just a poor child.

–Bill Gates

Seymour Rubinstein has said publicly that he left IMSAI to establish a software firm. But with his sharp business sense, Rubinstein must have seen the financial foundation dissolving under the house of IMSAI. More important, however, he chose to bring his business skills to a software industry characterized by haphazard marketing.

Creating a Consumer Market for Software

The lack of business expertise among its executives was holding back the software industry, Rubinstein felt. He decided that his firm would not sell to manufacturers, as Gary Kildall, ...

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