Founders at Work Stories of Startups' Early Days

Name: Founders at Work Stories of Startups' Early Days
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ISBN: 9781430210788

ISBN-10: 1430210788

ISBN-13: 9781430210788

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jessica Livingston

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For wouldbe 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, editorinchief of Wired Magazine , and author of The Long Tail ldquo;All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money and (b) not having done it before, ever.rdquo; -Steve Wozniak, Apple Founders at Work: Stories of Startupsrsquo; 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…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Apress L. P.
Publication date: 3/11/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Mountain View, California. She was previously vice president of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness. In addition to her work with startups at Y Combinator, she organizes Startup School (www.StartupSchool.org). She has a bachelor's degree in English from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.



Foreword


Preface


About the Author


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Max Levchin: PayPal



Sabeer Bhatia: Hotmail



Steve Wozniak: Apple Computer



Joe Kraus: Excite



Dan Bricklin: Software Arts



Mitchell Kapor: Lotus Development



Ray Ozzie: Iris Associates, Groove Networks



Evan Williams: Pyra Labs (Blogger.com)



Tim Brady: Yahoo



Mike Lazaridis: Research In Motion



Arthur van Hoff: Marimba



Paul Buchheit: Gmai



Steve Perlman: Web TV



Mike Ramsay: TiVo



Paul Graham: Viaweb



Joshua Schachter: del.icio.us



Mark Fletcher: ONElist, Bloglines



Craig Newmark: craigslist



Caterina Fake: Flickr



Brewster Kahle: WAIS, Internet Archive, Alexa Internet



Charles Geschke: Adobe Systems



Ann Winblad: Open Systems, Hummer Winblad



David Heinemeier Hansson: 37signals



Philip Greenspun: ArsDigita



Joel Spolsky: Fog Creek Software



Stephen Kaufer: TripAdvisor



James Hong: Hot or Not



James Currier: Tickle



Blake Ross: Firefox



Mena Trott: Six Apart



Bob Davis: Lycos



Ron Gruner: Alliant Computer Systems, Shareholder.com



Jessica Livingston: Y Combinator


Index