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Title: Forbes Greatest Technology Stories: Inspiring Tales of the Entrepreneurs and Inventors Who Revolutionized Modern Business by Jeffrey Young, Michael McConnohie ISBN: 1-56015-040-8 Publisher: Audio Scholar Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: History from newspapers
Comment: Buyers beware!!! This book is huge... Amazon should give its dimensions, but I am guessing more than a foot long and 3/4 foot wide. Great reading about history -- if you have strong arms and a sturdy table.
Rating: 5
Summary: a great motivator for any IT person out there
Comment: After buying the book I was a little scaptic about this book keeping me intrested but rather than being too technical and 'professional' the book is more like a drama with alot of winners and losers.It was a great inspiring experience-reading stories like the ones about bill gates,steve jobs and his body 'woz'.The book floats along the evolution of the computer industry,the IBM empire,the Microsoft phenomenen throght the stories of the people who made it and those who couldn't stay in the top.A must read for every person who has some computer background who wants to know how it all started and also for the not-yet computer fan who just wants a good read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Tales Well-Told
Comment: These really are "stories" rather than commentaries. A born storyteller, Young presents what he calls "inspiring tales of the entrepreneurs and inventors who revolutionized modern business." They include the "pioneers and pirates" who developed the prototype for the first commercial computers as well as Thomas J. Watson, Jr., William Shockley, Jack Kilby, Jay Forrester, Edwin De Castro, Douglas Engelbart, Bob Noyce, Andy Grove, & Gordon Moore, Edward Roberts, Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak, Don Estridge, Lew Eggbrecht, Bill Gates & Paul Allen, Tom Carter, Bill McGowan, Craig McCaw, Bob Taylor, Steve Case, and Marc Andreesen.
Perhaps at least a few of these names are unfamiliar to you. That is one of the great benefits of this book: It introduces a "cast" of literally hundreds of different "characters", most of them probably unfamiliar to most readers. I was fascinated to learn how important their "roles" were...how significant the impact of their work has proven to be.
For whom will this book be of greatest interest? Probably for those such as I who enjoy a story well-told, who have a keen interest in knowing more about various "entrepreneurs and inventors who revolutionized modern business", and who appreciate having what amounts to a frame-of-reference within which to understand current and future developments. Also, Young's book will suggest additional readings such as full-length biographies of the major "characters" in the "tales" he has told so well.
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Title: Forbes® Greatest Business Stories of All Time by Forbes Magazine Staff, Daniel Gross ISBN: 0471196533 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 07 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Forbes Greatest Investing Stories by Richard Phalon ISBN: 0471356247 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Hoover's Vision: Original Thinking for Business Success by Gary Hoover ISBN: B00008RULD Publisher: Thomson Texere Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Entrepreneurial Venture (The Practice of Management Series) by William A. Sahlman, Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J. Roberts, Amar Bhide ISBN: 0875848923 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Next: The Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis ISBN: 0393323528 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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