Digital Hustlers: Living Large and Falling Hard in Silicon Alley
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0066209234 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Carey Holzman said Boring - lost interest. 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 write a book.I am very interested in the real-life stories of .com businesseshow they got started, how big they got and how they fell from grace.T. Content interesting but structured badly Amazon Kunde 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 of Silicon Alley from 1995 to 2000. What makes the story so interesting is the rapid rise of the companies such as theglobe.com and then in 2000 . up, hustle, and out! 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 deflated, polygonal zeitgeist and presents them with clarity in a modern format.Being in a German synth-rock band, I found the book's philisophical i
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). Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Kait and Weiss astutely avoid passing judgment on such beliefs (even when a colleague is admiringly described as the "Henry James of Silicon Alley" and another claims he'll be bigger than Andy Warhol). From Publishers Weekly "Oh my God, what happened?" laments a key figure in this informative account of the rise and fall of startup millionaires in "Silicon Alley." Consisting almost entirely of interviews with the digerati of New York City's version of Silicon Valley, this oral history by dot-com veterans Kait and Weiss (of Salon and RedFilter, respectively) opens circa 1995, when only geeks had e-mail and skeptics believed that the Internet would go th
Together they describe a world of sweatshop programmers and paper millionaires, of cocktail-napkin business plans and billion-dollar IPOs, of spectacular successes and flame-outs alike. 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. And in doing so they sent the city around them into a maelstrom of brainstorming, code-writing, fundraising, drugs, sex, and frenzied hype…until April 2000, when the NASDAQ zeppelin finally burst and fell at their feet. 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.. The innovations they launched -- from online advertising to 24-hour Webcasting -- prop