Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (673 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B009IXMK4O |
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| Number of Pages | : | 523 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Excellent" according to Graybeard. This is a wonderful collection of interviews of company founders and co-founders. Kudos to the author for asking good questions and kudos to the interviewees for their candid, fascinating, detailed answers.What surprised me most was how down-to-earth and normal most of these successful people were. Only a couple of them seemed full of themselves. The rest, surprisingly, were just the opposite. Their stories about their startup days provided insights into their values, motivations, aspirations, points of view, work ethic; as well as their worries, fears, d. Truly a must read for every tech entrepreneur Amazing set of interviews. I loved that one can find some founder in every possible circumstance interviewed in here. Also loved that almost every advice one founder gives is negated by another founder in some other chapter!Take away message for me: there are very few rules when it comes to founding a tech startup. Just be yourself, and toss the proverbial coin.. Great content but kindle edition leaves much to be desired I bought the kindle edition of this book and I found it to be a terrible reading experience. Quote often it seemed like pieces of sentences were missing and occasionally when going from one page to another I would see the text of two lines superimposed on each other. I don't have a kindle so I used the android kindle app and kindle for the PC and both left much to be desired. Also I hated that if I flipped a few pages ahead that it would reset the location. Overall I would not recommend the e-book edition, the quality is horrendous. Also now that I see th
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. Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator!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. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fl
In addition to her work with startups at Y Combinator, she organizes Startup School (StartupSchool). She was previously vice president of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness. . About the AuthorJessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Mountain View, California. She has a bachelor's degree in English from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
She has a bachelor's degree in English from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. 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 (StartupSchool). . Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage vent