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In 1987, Jerry Kaplan embarked on every aspiringentrepreneur's dream--he formed his own company. Startup isKaplan's riveting and insightful story about what it takes tocreate and maintain a company in he computer industry--and how tohandle its remains when the world is not ready to accept what itproposes. This is both an inspiring personal account and athrilling adventure story of what goes on behind the world of thecomputer screen.

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The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. Compared to tech's other elite innovators--Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg--Bezos is a private man. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufactur

Michael Lewis was supposed to be writing about how Jim Clark,the founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, was going to turnhealth care on its ear by launching Healtheon, which would bringthe vast majority of the industry's transactions online. So why washe spending so much time on a computerized yacht, each featureinstalled because, as one technician put it, "someone saw it onStar Trek and wanted one just like it?" Much of The New New Thing, to be fair, is devoted to the Healtheonstory. It's just that Jim Clark doesn't do startups the way mostpeople do. "He had ceased to be a businessman," as Lewis puts it,"and become a conceptual artist." After coming up with the basicidea for Healtheon, securing the initial seed money, and hiring thepeople to make it happen, Clark concentrated on the building ofHyperion, a sailboat with a 197-foot mast, whose functions arecontrolled by 25 SGI workstations (a boat that, if he wanted to,Clark could log onto and steer--from anywhere in the world).Keeping up with Clark proves

"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation ofunknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, orthe phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the othermysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes MalcolmGladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products andmessages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Althoughanyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize thisconcept, Gladwell's The Tipping Point has quite a few interestingtwists on the subject.For example, Paul Revere was able togalvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part becausehe was what Gladwell calls a "Connector": he knew just abouteverybody, particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of thetowns that he rode through. But Revere "wasn't just the man withthe biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston," he was also a "Maven" whogathered extensive information about the British. He knew what wasgoing on and he knew exactly whom to tell. The phenomenon continuesto this day

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THE TIPPING POINT is the biography of an idea, and the idea isquite simple. It is that many of the problems we face -- from crimeto teenage delinquency to traffic jams -- behave like epidemics.They aren't linear phenomena in the sense that they steadily andpredictably change according to the level of effort brought to bearagainst them. They are capable of sudden and dramatic changes indirection. Years of well-intentioned intervention may have noimpact at all, yet the right intervention -- at just the right time-- can start a cascade of change. Many of the social ills that faceus today, in other words, are as inherently volatile as theepidemics that periodically sweep through the human population:little things can cause them to 'tip' at any time and if we want tounderstand how to confront and solve them we have to understandwhat those 'Tipping Points' are. In this revolutionary new study,Malcolm Gladwell explores the ramifications of this. Not simply forpoliticians and policy-makers, his method provides a new

Selected by Business Week as one of the 10 best business booksof the year, this text is "a major contribution to the debate aboutthe causes and consequences of inequality in America."--The NewYork Times Book Review.

"believe in this book!"-from the Foreword by Colleen Barrett,president emeritus, Southwest Airlines What makes the difference between having customers who like youand customers who love you? Lots of businesses are respected, but only an elite few havepassionate, loyal, vocal fans. The kind of customers who not onlycome back time and time again, but rave to friends, family, andeven strangers. The kind who can drive explosive growth via e-mail,blogs, Facebook and Twitter. Jeanne Bliss is an expert on what it takes to earn that kind ofcustomer. The bad news, she says, is that there's no shortcut; theworld's biggest marketing budget can't make people love you. Butthe good news is that a company can become beloved-if you commit tofive essential decisions about how to run your business. Bliss has studied and worked with dozens of beloved companies,ranging in size from large to small, from longtime successes likeWegman's and Harley-Davidson, to relatively new companies likeZappos, The