The courage and vision. The secret side of the creators of successful
 | Title: The courage and vision. The secret side of the creators of successful Authors: Jessica Livingston Year: 4/12/2007 Pages: 320 Publisher: Microsoft Press ISBN: 88-6114-092-0 Price: 18 euros |
In this book, whose original title is "Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Ap) ", the stories are told of start-ups and innovative and successful products in the form of friendly chat with the writer.
Those of you who have never heard of Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Apple? Well in this book you will see how their founders and creators started from scratch, those with personal savings, those with investment capital.
In reading these pages we see that all were moved from their ideas and their dreams, no doubt with hopes of gain, but mostly dreamed of being able to succeed in DCRE something the world would speak.
Of course many of you will say "but in those days there was fierce competition, and as many as today."
And the cost? Today, with 60 per month we can rent a server configured to install our clients' sites, at the time of many of these innovators could also act as a server at around $ 20,000.
Remember that every age has its pros and cons, and thankfully no one can cross or astral, but thanks to your abilities .... If we want the recommended parlatre that is another chapter that go into shortly.
If you want to know who is interviewed in these pages look the list below:
- David Heinemeier Hansson: 37signals partner and creator of Ruby on Rails (original version)
- Charles Geschke: Adobe founder
- Ron Gruner Founder of Alli Shareholder.com Computer and Ianto (original version)
- Steve Wozniak: Apple founder
- Philip Greenspun: founder of ArsDigita (Original version)
- Evan Williams, founder of Blogger.com and Odeo
- Craig Newmark: founder of Craigslist (Original version)
- Joshua Schachter: founder of Del.icio.us
- Joe Kraus: founder of Excite and JotSpot
- Blake Ross: creator of Firefox
- Caterina Fake: Founder of Flickr
- Joel Spolsky: founder of Fog Creek Software
- Paul Buchheit: creator of Gmail
- Ray Ozzie: founder of Groove Networks and Iris Associates
- Sabeer Bhatia: Hotmail founder
- James Hong: founder of HotorNot (Original version)
- Mitch Kapor: Lotus founder
- Bob Davis: Lycos founder
- Arthur van Hoff: Marimba founder (Original version)
- Mark Fletcher: founder of ONElist and Bloglines (Original version)
- Ann Winblad: Open Systems and founder of Hummer Winblad (Original version)
- Max Levchin: PayPal founder
- Mike Lazaridis: founder of Research in Motion
- Mena Trott: founder of Six Apart
- Dan Bricklin: founder of Software Arts and VisiCalc creator
- James Currier: Tickle founder
- Mike Ramsay Founder of TiVo (Original version)
- Steve Kaufer: TripAdvisor fopndatore
- Paul Graham, founder and and Combinator Viaweb (Original version)
- Brewster Kahle: founder of WAIS, Internet Archive and Alexa Internet
- Steve Perlman: Founder of WebTV
- Tim Brady: first employees of Yahoo
You may want more from life? Next start your adventure by reading this book, you will understand if you have what it takes to launch yourself in the world of technology or you need to stay on the sides as common spectators.
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