Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days 创业初期的故事
Posted on 2007-11-03 16:33 YellowWee(端木柒) 阅读(666) 评论(1) 编辑 收藏 举报他们是从哪里得到后来使他们变得富有的注意?他们怎么说服投资者给他们投资?当他们进行不下去了,他们又是怎么死里逃生的?
这本书里除了基本的技术之外,很有很多商业知识,始终创业和商业是分不开的,并不是有好的技术就能把它变成热销的商品。记得大学时李开复教授来我们学校演讲,拿会儿大概2000年,其中他介绍了它们亚洲研究院的一个研究项目,一款“中文输入法”。这款输入法到如今来看也没有哪个输入法功能能超过它的,让我印象最深的是功能是自动更正功能,比如你输入汉语拼音shanxi,山西和陕西都是这个拼音,输入shanxi后显示的山西,当你输入西安后,前面的山西自动变成陕西了(刚是了一下,好像微软拼音输入法2007也能实现);还有比如你在输入英文,遇到比如公司的英文记不得怎么写了,你只用输入gongsi,就会自动生成company,更牛的是,它能根据你英文的上下文选择不同的英文。每次敲入gongsi,它能根据上下文生成company,corporation,corp. ,Co. 和firm。这款输入至今还没有面世,可见一个技术转化为商品还需要很长的过程。
推荐,这本书可以给我们这些搞技术开拓视野,学习一些商业知识,商业技能,始终技术能否成功得要有市场才行。这本书还没有中文,我会利用时间慢慢把这一个个的采访故事翻译过来,请关注YellowWee's Script。 http://www.yellowwee.com.cn/category/FounderAtWork.aspx
32个采访包括:
David Heinemeier Hansson
Partner, 37signals and creator of Ruby on RailsCharles Geschke
Founder of AdobeRon Gruner
Founder of Alliant Computer and Shareholder.comSteve Wozniak
Founder of ApplePhilip Greenspun
Founder of ArsDigitaEvan Williams
Founder of Blogger.com and OdeoCraig Newmark
Founder of CraigslistJoshua Schachter
Founder of Del.icio.usJoe Kraus
Founder of Excite and JotSpotBlake Ross
Creator of FirefoxCaterina Fake
Founder of FlickrJoel Spolsky
Founder of Fog Creek SoftwarePaul Buchheit
Creator of GmailRay Ozzie
Founder of Groove Networks and Iris AssociatesSabeer Bhatia
Founder of HotmailJames Hong
Founder of HotorNotMitch Kapor
Founder of LotusBob Davis
Founder of LycosArthur van Hoff
Founder of MarimbaMark Fletcher
Founder of ONElist and BloglinesAnn Winblad
Founder of Open Systems and Hummer WinbladMax Levchin
Founder of PayPalMike Lazaridis
Founder of Research in MotionMena Trott
Founder of Six ApartDan Bricklin
Founder of Software Arts and creator of VisiCalcJames Currier
Founder of TickleMike Ramsay
Founder of TiVoSteve Kaufer
Founder of TripAdvisorPaul Graham
Founder of Viaweb and Y CombinatorBrewster Kahle
Founder of WAIS, Internet Archive and Alexa InternetSteve Perlman
Founder of WebTVTim Brady
First employee at Yahoo!