Book description
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
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1: Max Levchin Cofounder, PayPal
- CHAPTER 2: Sabeer Bhatia Cofounder, Hotmail
- CHAPTER 3: Steve Wozniak Cofounder, Apple Computer
- CHAPTER 4: Joe Kraus Cofounder, Excite
- CHAPTER 5: Dan Bricklin Cofounder, Software Arts
- CHAPTER 6: Mitchell Kapor Cofounder, Lotus Development
- CHAPTER 7: Ray Ozzie Founder, Iris Associates, Groove Networks
- CHAPTER 8: Evan Williams Cofounder, Pyra Labs (Blogger.com)
- CHAPTER 9: Tim Brady First Non-Founding Employee, Yahoo
- CHAPTER 10: Mike Lazaridis Cofounder, Research In Motion
- CHAPTER 11: Arthur van Hoff Cofounder, Marimba
- CHAPTER 12: Paul Buchheit Creator, Gmail
- CHAPTER 13: Steve Perlman Cofounder, WebTV
- CHAPTER 14: Mike Ramsay Cofounder, TiVo
- CHAPTER 15: Paul Graham Cofounder, Viaweb
- CHAPTER 16: Joshua Schachter Founder, del.icio.us
- CHAPTER 17: Mark Fletcher Founder, ONElist, Bloglines
- CHAPTER 18: Craig Newmark Founder, craigslist
- CHAPTER 19: Caterina Fake Cofounder, Flickr
- CHAPTER 20: Brewster Kahle Founder, WAIS, Internet Archive, Alexa Internet
- CHAPTER 21: Charles Geschke Cofounder, Adobe Systems
- CHAPTER 22: Ann Winblad Cofounder, Open Systems, Hummer Winblad
- CHAPTER 23: David Heinemeier Hansson Partner, 37signals
- CHAPTER 24: Philip Greenspun Cofounder, ArsDigita
- CHAPTER 25: Joel Spolsky Cofounder, Fog Creek Software
- CHAPTER 26: Stephen Kaufer Cofounder, TripAdvisor
- CHAPTER 27: James Hong Cofounder, HOT or NOT
- CHAPTER 28: James Currier Founder, Tickle
- CHAPTER 29: Blake Ross Creator, Firefox
- CHAPTER 30: Mena Trott Cofounder, Six Apart
- CHAPTER 31: Bob Davis Founder, Lycos
- CHAPTER 32: Ron Gruner Cofounder, Alliant Computer Systems; Founder, Shareholder.com
- Index
Product information
- Title: Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2007
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781590597149
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