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The Wizard of Menlo Park

How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World

by Randall E. Stross ...

Thomas Edison’s greatest invention? His own fame.At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention” and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through the development of incandescent light and the first motion picture cameras, Edison’s name became emblematic of ... Read more

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Thomas Edison’s greatest invention? His own fame.At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention” and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through the development of incandescent light and the first motion picture cameras, Edison’s name became emblematic of
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eBoys

The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

by Randall E. Stross ...

In eBOYS, Randall Stross takes us behind the scenes and inside the heads of the gutsy entrepreneurs who are financing the hottest businesses on the Web. The six tall men who started Benchmark, Silicon Valley's most exciting venture capital firm, put themselves at the cutting edge of the new economy by backing billion dollar start-ups like eBay and Webvan. The risks were enormous--but the rewards ... Read more

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In eBOYS, Randall Stross takes us behind the scenes and inside the heads of the gutsy entrepreneurs who are financing the hottest businesses on the Web. The six tall men who started Benchmark, Silicon Valley's most exciting venture capital firm, put themselves at the cutting edge of the new economy by backing billion dollar start-ups like eBay and Webvan. The risks were enormous--but the rewards
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BULLS IN THE CHINA SHOP

by Randall E. Stross ...

Bulls in the China Shop is an engagingly anecdotal, lucidly written account of the tragicomic cultural and political misadventures that have plagues American commercial ventures over the past two decades in the People’s Republic of China.When diplomatic tensions between the two countries were eased in the 1970s, American businesses rushed to China, lured by the world’s largest national market. As ... Read more

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Bulls in the China Shop is an engagingly anecdotal, lucidly written account of the tragicomic cultural and political misadventures that have plagues American commercial ventures over the past two decades in the People’s Republic of China.When diplomatic tensions between the two countries were eased in the 1970s, American businesses rushed to China, lured by the world’s largest national market. As
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Eboys

The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

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The first inside account of life within a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, eBoys is the fascinating true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups that are transforming the Internet and setting a new pace for the economy.Randall Stross, author of acclaimed books on Microsoft and Steve Jobs, blends a business historian's perspective with a journalist ... Read more

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The first inside account of life within a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, eBoys is the fascinating true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups that are transforming the Internet and setting a new pace for the economy.Randall Stross, author of acclaimed books on Microsoft and Steve Jobs, blends a business historian's perspective with a journalist
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A Practical Education

Why Liberal Arts Majors Make Great Employees

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The liberal arts major is often lampooned: lacking in "skills," unqualified for a professional career, underemployed. But studying for the joy of learning turns out to be surprisingly practical. Unlike career-focused education, liberal education prepares graduates for anything and everything—and nervous "fuzzy major" students, their even more nervous parents, college career center professionals, ... Read more

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The liberal arts major is often lampooned: lacking in "skills," unqualified for a professional career, underemployed. But studying for the joy of learning turns out to be surprisingly practical. Unlike career-focused education, liberal education prepares graduates for anything and everything—and nervous "fuzzy major" students, their even more nervous parents, college career center professionals,
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The Launch Pad

Inside Y Combinator

by Randall Stross ...

Number of teams that applied to Y Combinator’s summer 2011 batch: 2,089Teams interviewed: 170Minutes per interview: 10Teams accepted and funded: 64Months to build a viable startup: 3Possibilities: BOUNDLESSInvestment firm Y Combinator is the most sought-after home for startups in Silicon Valley. Twice a year, it funds dozens of just-founded s... ... Read more

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Number of teams that applied to Y Combinator’s summer 2011 batch: 2,089Teams interviewed: 170Minutes per interview: 10Teams accepted and funded: 64Months to build a viable startup: 3Possibilities: BOUNDLESSInvestment firm Y Combinator is the most sought-after home for startups in Silicon Valley. Twice a year, it funds dozens of just-founded s...
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MILO: A Journal For Serious Strength Athletes, Vol. 21.2

by Randall J Strosse, Ph. D. ...

“On the cover: Mike Burke broke the world record for the CoC Silver Bullet, hanging on for a long 53.97 seconds before the Captains of Crush No. 3 gripper opened up. MILO is the world's premier strength journal, with first-rate coverage of training, people, contests, history, and special features. Top authors and photographers provide inspiration and information - bringing you to the epicenter of ... Read more

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“On the cover: Mike Burke broke the world record for the CoC Silver Bullet, hanging on for a long 53.97 seconds before the Captains of Crush No. 3 gripper opened up. MILO is the world's premier strength journal, with first-rate coverage of training, people, contests, history, and special features. Top authors and photographers provide inspiration and information - bringing you to the epicenter of
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Planet Google

One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know

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Based on unprecedented access he received to the highly secretive "Googleplex," acclaimed New York Times columnist Randall Stross takes readers deep inside Google, the most important, most innovative, and most ambitious company of the Internet Age. His revelations demystify the strategy behind the company's recent flurry of bold moves, all driven by the pursuit of a business plan unlike any other: ... Read more

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Based on unprecedented access he received to the highly secretive "Googleplex," acclaimed New York Times columnist Randall Stross takes readers deep inside Google, the most important, most innovative, and most ambitious company of the Internet Age. His revelations demystify the strategy behind the company's recent flurry of bold moves, all driven by the pursuit of a business plan unlike any other:
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Planet Google

One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know

by Randall Stross ...

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After one of the most successful IPOs in history, Google set forth on an incredible, audacious new strategy for its future—a vision so bold, large-scale, and controversial, that the company has worked very hard to keep it totally under wraps. Neither The Search nor The Google Story, both successful books about the company, included any information about this new vision the business has for itself. ... Read more

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After one of the most successful IPOs in history, Google set forth on an incredible, audacious new strategy for its future—a vision so bold, large-scale, and controversial, that the company has worked very hard to keep it totally under wraps. Neither The Search nor The Google Story, both successful books about the company, included any information about this new vision the business has for itself.
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MILO: A Journal for Serious Strength Athletes, Vol. 20.4

by Randall J Strosse, Ph. D. ...

Cover: Usually placid and Buddha-like in appearance, Zydrunas Savickas showed some teeth on the Log Lift, where he capped off his first-place finish with a world record 220-kg log (2013 World's Strongest Man).MILO is the world s premier strength journal, with first-rate coverage of training, people, contests, history, and special features. Top authors and photographers provide inspiration and ... Read more

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Cover: Usually placid and Buddha-like in appearance, Zydrunas Savickas showed some teeth on the Log Lift, where he capped off his first-place finish with a world record 220-kg log (2013 World's Strongest Man).MILO is the world s premier strength journal, with first-rate coverage of training, people, contests, history, and special features. Top authors and photographers provide inspiration and
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The Launch Pad

Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups

by Randall Stross ...

Narrated by René Ruiz ...

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8 hours 49 min

Twice a year in the heart of Silicon Valley, a small investment firm called Y Combinator selects an elite group of young entrepreneurs from around the world for three months of intense work and instruction. Their brand-new two- or three-person start-ups are given a seemingly impossible challenge: to turn a raw idea into a viable business, fast.Each YC session culminates in a demo day, when ... Read more

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Twice a year in the heart of Silicon Valley, a small investment firm called Y Combinator selects an elite group of young entrepreneurs from around the world for three months of intense work and instruction. Their brand-new two- or three-person start-ups are given a seemingly impossible challenge: to turn a raw idea into a viable business, fast.Each YC session culminates in a demo day, when
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Googled

The End of the World as We Know It

by Ken Auletta ...

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13 hours 54 min

A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media Landscape.There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. As only he can, bestselling author Ken Auletta takes readers for a ride on the Google wave, telling the story of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses—from newspapers to books, to ... Read more

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A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media Landscape.There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. As only he can, bestselling author Ken Auletta takes readers for a ride on the Google wave, telling the story of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses—from newspapers to books, to
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