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High stakes, no prisoners : a winner's tale of greed and glory in the Internet wars / Charles H. Ferguson.
Lippincott Library HD9696.2.U63 C354 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferguson, Charles H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer industry--California--Santa Clara County.
- Computer industry.
- High technology industries--California--Santa Clara County.
- High technology industries.
- Entrepreneurship--United States--Case studies.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Wealth.
- United States.
- California--Santa Clara County.
- Wealth--California--Santa Clara County.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 392 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- High st@kes, no prisoners.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Times Business, 1999.
- Summary:
- High Stakes, No Prisoners is a sharp, brilliant insider's account of the way Silicon Valley really works: the sharks, powerful incumbents, and old-boy networks who play hardball all the time and the geniuses who make the products that have changed the world.
- Charles Ferguson started Vermeer Technologies and turned his very cool, very big idea into FrontPage, the first software product for creating and managing a website. A mere twenty months after starting the company, he sold it to Microsoft for $133 million, making a fortune for himself and his associates. FrontPage now has millions of users and is bundled with Microsoft Office. But getting there wasn't always fun.
- High Stakes, No Prisoners is the book about the Valley and reflects Ferguson's unique experience not only as a successful entrepreneur but also as a policy analyst, computer industry consultant, and academic.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Starting the Company 16
- Chapter 2 The Internet Awakens as the Giants Sleep, 1990-94: The Invention of the Web and Mosaic, Netscape's First Browser, Vermeer Gets a Strategy, and Much, Much More 41
- Chapter 3 First-Round Funding 69
- Chapter 4 Vermeer, Fall 1994-Summer 1995: Making a Beautiful Machine and Preparing lt for War 102
- Chapter 5 The Industry, January-August 1995: Netscape Lights lts Roman Candle, Bill Gates Wakes Up, and AOL Rolls with the Punch 135
- Chapter 6 Wins and Losses; or, No More Mr. Nice Guy 158
- Chapter 7 Wins and Losses, Continued; or, Things Get Really Complicated 194
- Chapter 8 The Making of a Deal 229
- Chapter 9 Speaking Ill of the Dead: A Strategic Analysis of Netscape's Failure and the Future of Internet Software 266
- Chapter 10 The Microsoft Question 295
- Chapter 11 The Future, and Some Large Questions 330.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812931432 :
- OCLC:
- 41439746
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