High stakes, no prisoners
Subtitle: a winner's tale of greed and glory in the Internet wars
By: Charles H. Ferguson
Publisher: Times Business
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780812931433
Subjects: High technology industries; Computer industry; Case studies; Wealth; Entrepreneurship
Other titles: High st@kes, no prisoners
Description: "High Stakes, No Prisoners is a sharp, insider's account of the way Silicon Valley really works: the sharks, powerful incumbents, and old-boy networks who play hardball all the time and the geniuses who make the products that have changed the world."--BOOK JACKET.

"Charles Ferguson started Vermeer Technologies and turned his very cool, very big idea into FrontPage, the first software product for creating and managing a website. A mere twenty months after starting the company, he sold it to Microsoft for $133 million, making a fortune for himself and his associates. FrontPage now has millions of users and is bundled with Microsoft Office. But getting there wasn't always fun."--BOOK JACKET.

"High Stakes, No Prisoners is the book about the Valley and reflects Ferguson's unique experience not only as a successful entrepreneur but also as a policy analyst, computer industry consultant, and academic."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Starting the company; title: The internet awakens as the giants sleep, 1990-94; the invention of the Web and Mosaic, Netscape's first browser, Vermeer gets a strategy, and much, much more; title: First-round funding; title: Vermeer, Fall 1994-Summer 1995; making a beautiful machine and preparing it for war; title: The industry, January-August 1995; Netscape lights its roman candle, Bill Gates wakes up, and AOL rolls with the punch; title: Wins and losses; or, no more Mr. Nice Guy; title: Wins and losses, continued; or, things get really complicated; title: The making of a deal; title: Speaking ill of the dead; a strategic analysis of Netscape's failure and the future of internet software; title: The Microsoft question; title: The future, and some large questions