What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? I have only finished about a third of the book, and have already gotten my money's worth out of it. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2020. What went wrong, and how did they recover? Does this book contain inappropriate content? Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley. 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. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming, Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes, The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson, Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Mountain View, California. 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. I have uploaded images showing how poorly the printed word looks in the paperback edition. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Something went wrong. Please try again. Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 20 juillet 2020. Ce livre a été recommandé comme étant un "mandatory to read" par le patron d'une start-up, Evercontact, qui vient de gagner la Word Cup Tech Challenge dans la Silicon Valley et la French Tour à New York. I … It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Don't buy paperback edition. 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. Life-changing stuff. Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businessesdo create value more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. by Livingston, Jessica (ISBN: 9781484220344) from Amazon's Book Store. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2018. I've never seen a professionally printed book that looked so bad. Découvrez les avantages de l'application Amazon. Unable to add item to List. Then this book is for you. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Steve Wozniak, Apple Now available in paperback-with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. There's much to absorb and it's just plain interesting. 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. These people are celebrities now. Are you an entrepreneur? Founders at Work Paperback – 1 May 2019 by Jessica Livingston (Author) › Visit Amazon's Jessica Livingston Page. It almost looks like a cheap photocopy on a bargain-basement laser printer. Les membres Amazon Prime profitent de la livraison accélérée gratuite sur des millions d’articles, d’un accès à des milliers de films et séries sur Prime Video, et de nombreux autres avantages. Excellent, très complet. Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, and author of The Long Tail "All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money and (b) not having done it before, ever". 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. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? Buy Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 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. Pour sortir de ce carrousel, utilisez votre touche de raccourci d'en-tête pour accéder à l'en-tête suivant ou précédent. 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. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Are you about to launch a startup? Actually learn from the most ridiculous mistakes, the best ever did :), Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 23 octobre 2016.