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America’s Most Successful Startups

Lessons for Entrepreneurs

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Max Finger

    1. Vallendar, Germany

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  2. Oliver Samwer

    1. Vallendar, Germany

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  • Die erfolgreichsten Start-ups Amerikas

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Launching the Business

    1. The Network

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer
      Pages 130-133

  2. Growing the Business

    1. The Partners

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer
      Pages 134-136

    2. The Game for Mindshare

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer
      Pages 137-139

    3. The Breakthrough

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer
      Pages 140-140

    4. The First Customers

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer
      Pages 141-143

    5. The Competition

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer
      Pages 144-146

    6. The Growth Management

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer
      Pages 147-152

  3. The Entrepreneur

    1. The Motivation

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer
      Pages 153-153

    2. The Doubts

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer
      Pages 154-154

    3. The Sacrifices

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer
      Pages 155-155

    4. The Qualities of an Entrepreneur

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer
      Pages 156-164

    5. Summary

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer
      Pages 165-165

    6. Appendix

      • Max Finger, Oliver Samwer
      Pages 166-167

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 168-170
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About this book

Leaving school and standing at the threshold of the next stage in our life, through this study we have had the chance to take a glance at the 21 st century. We hope to be able to communicate some of those impressions to a wider audience through this book. For entrepreneurs, the book develops a series of concrete propositions which provide hands­ on lessons for creating a successful venture. Thus we hope that this book will be used again and again as an Entrepreneur's Handbook. If we have done our job well, it will soon be full of underlinings, marginal notations and highlighting. It is meant to provide useful advice for people like us, people who want to be entrepreneurs. The book documents empirical research bearing on the question of how to start, build and grow a successful venture. The research is based exclusively on interviews with America's most successful high-tech startups in Silicon Valley and Massachusetts. In these interviews we came across the most tremendous people, entrepreneurs of the 21 st century, first-tier venture capitalists, investment bankers, lawyers and technologists. People who will be driving the economy of tomorrow.

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  • Vallendar, Germany

    Max Finger, Oliver Samwer

About the authors

Max Finger und Oliver Samwer studierten Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der Wissenschaftlichen Hochschule für Unternehmensführung (WHU), Koblenz.

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