Founders at work
Subtitle: stories of startups' early days
By: Jessica Livingston
Publisher: Apress; Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781590597149
Subjects: Cas, Études de; Industries électroniques; Electronic industries; New business enterprises; Nouvelles entreprises; Case studies
Description: Presents the profiles of the founders of thirty-two start-up technology companies, discussing how their ideas originated, the obstacles thay overcame to make their companies grow into successful ventures, and the influence that many of these companies have on the Internet culture.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Max Levchin : PayPal; title: Sabeer Bhatia : Hotmail; title: Steve Wozniak : Apple Computer; title: Joe Kraus : Excite; title: Dan Bricklin : Software Arts; title: Mitchell Kapor : Lotus Development; title: Ray Ozzie : Iris Associates, Groove Networks; title: Evan Williams : Pyra Labs (Blogger.com); title: Tim Brady : Yahoo; title: Mike Lazardis : Research in Motion; title: Arthur Van Hoff : Marimba; title: Paul Buchheit : Gmail; title: Steve Perlman : WebTV; title: Mike Ramsay : TiVo; title: Paul Graham : Viaweb; title: Joshua Schachter : del.icio.us; title: Mark Fletcher : ONElist, Bloglines; title: Craig Newmark : craigslist; title: Caterina Fake : Flickr; title: Brewster Kahle : WAIS, Internet Archive, Alexa Internet; title: Charles Geschke : Adobe Systems; title: Ann Winblad : Open Systems, Hummer Winblad; title: David Heinemeier Hansson : 37signals; title: Philip Greenspun : ArsDigita; title: Joel Spolsky : Fog Creek Software; title: Stephen Kaufer : TripAdvisor; title: James Hong : HOT or NOT; title: James Currier : Tickle; title: Blake Ross : Firefox; title: Mena Trott : Six Apart; title: Bob Davis : Lycos; title: Ron Gruner : Alliant Computer Systems, Shareholder.com.