书籍介绍
这不本教人如何创业的成功学手册，而是一扇让人窥见'创业究竟如何发生'的窗口。作者 Livingston 采访了一批如今声名显赫的技术公司创始人，追问他们最早期的挣扎：想法从何而来、怎样说服投资人、哪里走错又如何挽回。最耐人寻味的，是这些被外界视为'超人般自信'的创始人，其实多数曾怀疑自己是否真的抓住了什么。有人'并非打算开公司，只是恰好被当作工程师'，有人把公司估值被压到15%股权还浑然不觉。书中反复浮现的，不是天才的灵光，而是'先干起来'的莽撞、伙伴选择的重要性，以及'别试图改变用户行为'这类朴素到近乎反直觉的经验。适合那些想听真实故事、而非成功模板的读者。
作者简介
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.
AI导读
核心看点
- 32位科技创始人亲述创业初期的真实故事
- 揭示从想法到公司的艰难历程与试错经验
- 涵盖融资、团队组建及产品迭代的实战细节
读者共识
- 成功无法复制，但坚韧不拔的品质至关重要
- 创始人初期往往一无所知，行动比完美计划重要
- 真实记录优于理论说教，是了解创业的最佳窗口
精彩摘录
- "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 a"
- "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 char"
- "⋯⋯我们最终谈妥了，他们把我们的公司估值为200万美元，把持股比例降低到了15%。但是，他们要求在这项投资中的优先取舍权。因为当初我还是一个刚入行的企业家，我并不知道这就意味着我们不能去找其它任何一家风险投资公司了。"
- "不要试图去改变用户的行为。你也许期望着人们能戏剧性地改变做事方式，这是不可能发生的。可以试着去做一些细小的但也是很重要的改变。"
- "Introduction Some kind of magic happens in startups, especially at the very beginning, but the only people there to see it are the founders. The best way to understand what happens is to ask them, so that’s what I did. In this book, you’ll hear the founders' stories in their own words. Here, I want "
- "I think there's a general principle at work here: the less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate ...and Flickr grew out of an online game"
- "The default of how you do these things is very powerful, if you've been in the industry for a long time,So we were sort of beneficiaries of our naivete. We thought, "We don't know how to do this, let's just invent it " We built the system to be viral from day one. The idea was: I can send you the mo"
- "I was just shocked that all of that happened in a span of 20 months from start to finish. Those kinds of things don't happen very often; from the time you start to the time you see an exit in less than 2 years. That's what shocked me. And I have not been able to replicate that kind of meteoric growt"
用户评论
我只看了关于DHH的部分。好吧，其实是看了rails诞生的部分。
PG老婆写的。
周鸿祎作序，文章翻译的不好。
大概读完了。Joel Spolsky就是个话唠。。。每一篇故事读起来都不错，文字平实，没多少夸大的部分，虽然不像Facebook那篇短故事那样精彩。
有些书还真是不能读的太早，比如这本。当年读了，觉不过尔尔。现在重温，看到别人的创业故事，包括各种犯的错误，自己规规矩矩的很多都经历了，才感觉不过。推荐此书，不过你可能要在一个创业公司工作过再读。
一系列创业公司创始人的采访 可以当作小说消遣的时候读 缺少干货权当励志
断断续续两年，还是没能全部章节都看完。从“啊好想写一本这样的书”到“这么多红极一时的公司放到历史上居然都不配拥有姓名”……
这本书是原IBM的同事知道我要创业后推荐的，很不错的一本书，可以了解到创业里面的管理、冲突和一些产品想法的由来。
把几个自己关心的读了，非常赞，都是直接采访的创始人，第一手信息，直奔重点。推荐（PayPal、Hotmail、Excite、Adobe、Gmail、Firefox）。
成年人应该都懂得幸存者偏差的道理，所以鸡汤喝喝暖暖心也就可以了，该干啥还是该干啥
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