Digital Hustlers: Living Large and Falling Hard in Silicon Alley
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (956 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0066209234 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Boring - lost interest" according to Carey Holzman. This book is snippets of conversations from people who were influences in the .com era. Unfortunately, there are so many people, I have no idea who JOHN is or what project he was related with. And I don't care. The book does nothing to tell a story. Its not really a bookits more like journal someone would use to wr. Amazon Kunde said Content interesting but structured badly. The content of this book is interesting and even fascinating at times. However, the way the content is structured makes it difficult to read and understand. Essentially, the authors have conducted many interviews of the key players of Silicon Alley companies in New York. The interviews provide a story of the rise o. "up, hustle, and out!" according to A Customer. The best non-fiction uses its subject matter to provoke thought of a variety of issues. I found "Digital Hustlers" to be exactly that: a brilliant expose of how the "Gotterdammerung" effect took its toll on all aspects of late-nineties startup culture. The book collects powerful stories from all sides of this defla
Here are entrepreneurs like Kevin O'Connor of DoubleClick, Fernando Espuelas of StarMedia, and Craig Kanarick of Razorfish; commentators like Omar Wasow of MSNBC and Jason McCabe Calacanis of the Silicon Alley Reporter; and inimitable Alley characters like party diva Courtney Pulitzer and Josh Harris, the clown prince of Pseudo. Candid and open-eyed, bristling with energy and argument, Digital Hustlers is an unforgettable group portrait of a wildly creative culture caught in the headlights of achievement.. Many of these young entrepreneurs were entranced by the infinite promise of the new media; others seemed more captivated by the promise of infinite profits. Together they describe a world of sweatshop progr
But on April 17, 2000 a date that the dot-commers speak of the way their parents refer to the Kennedy assassination the NASDAQ began its downward spiral. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. But soon dot-com exploits landed on the front page and money started to rain down from venture capitalists. Within a few months, TheGlobe began paying its employees with free pizza instead of cash; other startups dissolved their Web sites. Perhaps the culmination of the mania was the legendary three-month bash for New Year's Eve 2000 thrown by Pseudo's Josh Harris (a manic figure who emerges as the Caligula of Silicon Alley). From Publishers Weekly "Oh my God, what happened?" lam