Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (802 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0752826239 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A View from the Trenches" according to Penner. This book is about Wolff's short-lived foray into Internet entrepreneurship in the mid-90s. In addition to recounting his own company's fortunes, he seems to have been tuned in to just about everything that was going on with the net industry, so it's a great overview of the whole cyber-landscape too. Mainly, it's a chronicle of the moment when the Internet shifted from being a marginalized geekfest to being Big Business.He has great chapters on Wired magazi. Chris Bickford said Great read. Michael Wolff is a professional business writer - a journalist in fact. This fact is important for two reasons:1 - He writes clearly and well."Great read" according to Chris Bickford. Michael Wolff is a professional business writer - a journalist in fact. This fact is important for two reasons:1 - He writes clearly and well.2 - While living in the Internet Gold Rush, he took notes on the details of conversations, instead of the meaning (or so he tells us).So, this book is another interesting view in the ways and means of money. Smart money, dumb money, no money for tomorrow's payroll and all that.It's not written to give glamorous insigh. - While living in the Internet Gold Rush, he took notes on the details of conversations, instead of the meaning (or so he tells us).So, this book is another interesting view in the ways and means of money. Smart money, dumb money, no money for tomorrow's payroll and all that.It's not written to give glamorous insigh. The book is the message. Wolff is a hyper. Do not buy it. Revenge of the Words. After reading all of the hype, buzz, and reviews about this book I had to buy it. After all, I have been in Wolff's seat dealing with VCs, preferred stock, and critical market timing. Sadly, I found that the book is a long gossipy account of the early days of the web but very short on humor or advice for the entrepreneur. I normally grade business books by corner foldovers (to locate good advice or a pithy quote) and lol's (laughing ou
Wolff takes plenty of time off from his personal journey to explore significant events in the development of cyberculture, such as the transition of Louis Rosetto from a least-likely-to-succeed publisher into the creator of the revolutionary Wired magazine. This would be a wonderful work of satirical fiction if it weren't actually true. His candid view shows it all--the oddball characters in expensive shirts and T-shirts, the crazy dealing, the exhilaration, the heartbreak, and the fear. She promptly translates the nonsense into sobering reality. Some of the book's best parts are where he shows himself swept up in the intoxicating flow of a deal and calls home to report developments to his wife. Michael Wolff,
Michael Wolff was a journalist and writer; in 1998 he is a journalist and writer again. But in the first half of the '90's he was an Internet entrepreneur, Chairman and CEO of Wolff New Media. This is Wolff's story. If there is one book that tells us about what is going on in the complex and confusing struggle for the future of the Internet it is this one.. BURN RATE is hugely informative about the world of the net and the web, search engines, closed systems, online pornography; it is also incredibly funny. As readable as a novel, BURN RATE is an all too human story of one man, at first idealistic and naive, then corrupted and increasingly cynical and eventually burned out and tired, and a world that bears as much resemblance to the school playground (not least in the age of it's major players) as it does to the world of conventional businesses