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), an...
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 businessesdo—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.
Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm based in Cambridge, MA, and Mountain View, CA. She was previously VP of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness. In addition to her work with startups at Y Combinator, she organizes Startup School. She has a BA in English from Bucknell.
My whole life was basically trying to optimize things. You don't just save parts,but every time you save parts you save on complexity and reliability, the amount of time it takes to understand something. And how good you can build it without errors and bugs and flaws
All the best things that I did at Apple came from(a)not having money, and (b)not having done it before,ever. Every single thing that we came out with that was really great. (查看原文)
We hadn't decided to start a company. Because companies weren't my thing,technology was
But then one person said I could be an engineer. That was all I needed to know, that"OK,I'll start this company and I'll just be an engineer" To this day, I'm still on the org chart, on the bottom of the org chart-never once been anything but an engineer who works (查看原文)
比起那本《coders at work》，这本《founders at works》要好看很多，而且后者还是先出的呢。这是一个访谈录，作者对那些知名的IT创业者的采访记录。据说作者她还嫁给了其中的一个访谈对象Paul Graham，也就是《hacker and painter》一书的作者（几个月前才看了该书的中文版）...
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0 有用 陈信龙 2007-09-17 11:54:36
I recommend it.
0 有用 邓小林 2012-08-27 14:57:45
我只看了关于DHH的部分。好吧，其实是看了rails诞生的部分。
0 有用 liuh 2009-11-06 23:24:48
每周读一部分，吼吼
4 有用 optman 2011-10-03 22:16:31
那些IT创业故事，他们是如何开始的，转折点是什么，如何拉到投资的，有什么经验教训。寄希望于从中学到点什么的人来说，其实人家刚开始干也是什么都不懂就开始了。最重要的，其实是开始干！找到合适的伙伴非常重要，否则你很难坚持到成功。
2 有用 Hammer_ 2012-06-17 22:03:53
推荐给喜欢听故事的童鞋