Startups: Professional Silicon Valley Games
Startups: Professional Silicon Valley Games
Book Description
Venture capitalist William Draper is familiar with the history of global entrepreneurship firsthand – he created it himself. For more than 40 years, he has been cooperating with the best entrepreneurs of the legendary Silicon Valley, where today's ideas become tomorrow's reality. Draper, who saw the extraordinary capabilities of Skype, Hotmail and many other companies before others, tells success stories in which he himself took part. The author shares the secrets of how investors evaluate business ideas, talks about the lessons of Yahoo, Zappos, Baidu, Tesla Motors, Activision and other high-tech industry leaders. Drawing on the experience of personal meetings, Draper tells how Deng Xiaoping made China a modern economic power, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh liberated the creative genius of his country's entrepreneurs. This book, written in fascinating language and based on many personal observations of the author, is a very popular look at the structure of the venture industry and innovative entrepreneurship. The book will be of interest to entrepreneurs, company executives, investors, journalists and anyone interested in the practice of modern high-tech business.
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