Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Ap) by Jessica Livingston Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Ap)
Book Review: Enjoyable story, interesting observations, tangible results
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed this tale of ideas, optimism, challenge, toil and learning. The originating premise of the book was to track a great code project from inception to market, but turned into a slightly embarrassed fly-on-the-way tale of a software team lost in the woods. The book is informative, well written and deals with the topic with clarity and insight. The pace slows towards the end, but this feels more of a reflection of the project. It also has the virtue that the project is still ongoing (and the latest build available for download), and its passage is well documented on the web. This gives a rare opportunity to see how the design decisions and characters in a project contribute to an end product. I would have given 4 stars for the book, but the ability to look at the ongoing project with the back story is worth 5.Book Review: Detailed, repetitive, more business than business activities
Summary: 4 Stars
This books gives a detailed account from individuals involved in some top Tech companies. Describing what they went through turning their idea into a business. Although since a lot of the companies went through very similar stages the interviews can be a bit repetitive.
If you want to know all about the goings on of the companies and their 'products' then this isn't for you, it focuses on the business side of setting up the company, or more precisely their struggles in the business side of things.
Overall a very enjoyable informative read. Maybe not for everyone though.
Book Review: Enlightening
Summary: 5 Stars
Very good choice of subjects for the interviews, some really amazing personalities from the IT world, shown as they are.
A very competent interviewer, able to ask the right questions, without ever getting in the way of the answers, always detailed and complete.
Fresh, never boring, a really inspirational book for whoever has ever thought of starting a company of his own, a very interesting read for anyone.