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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Max Levchin
PayPal
Chapter 2 Sabeer Bhatia
Hotmail
Chapter 3 Steve Woznak
Apple Computer
Chapter 4 Joe Kraus
Excite
Chapter 5 Dan Brocklin
Software Arts
Chapter 6 Mitchell Kapor
Lotus Development
Chapter 7 Ray Ozzie
Iris Associates, Groove Networks
Chapter 8 Evan Williams
Pyra Labs (Blogger.com)
Chapter 9 Tim Brady
Yahoo
Chapter 10 Mike Lazardis
Research In Motion
Chapter 11 Arthur Van Hoff
Marimba
Chapter 12 Paul Buchheit
Gmail
Chapter 13 Steve Perlman
WebTV
Chapter 14 Mike Ramsay
TiVo
Chapter 15 Paul Graham
Viaweb
Chapter 16 Joshua Schachter
del.icio.us
Chapter 17 Mark Fletcher
ONElist, Bloglines
Chapter 18 Craig Newmark
craiglist
Chapter 19 Caterina Fake
Flickr
Chapter 20 Brewster Kahle
WAIS. Internet Archive, Alexa Internet
Chapter 21 Charles Geschke
Adobe Systems
Chapter 22 Ann Winblad
Open Systems, Hummer Winblad
Chapter 23 David Heinemeier Hansson
37signals
Chapter 24 Philip Greenspun
ArsDigita
Chapter 25 Joel Spolsky
Fog Creek Software
Chapter 26 Stephen Kaufer
TripAdvisor
Chapter 27 James Hong
HOT or NOT
Chapter 28 James Curriere
Tickle
Chapter 29 Blake Ross
Firefox
Chapter 30 Mena Trott
Six Apart
Chapter 31 Bob Davis
Lycos
Chapter 32 Ron Gruner
Alliant Computer Systems, Shareholder.com
Index
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