Randall E. Stross

Offers perspectives on the teachings of Y Combinator and its twice-annual selection of elite young entrepreneurs who participate in three-month programs where they build small startups that are presented to venture capitalists.

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

The Launch Pad

An in-depth portrait of America's greatest inventor journeys inside the life and laboratory of Thomas Edison, documenting not only his revolutionary technological innovations, but also his ability to promote and market himself and his creations.

How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World

The Wizard of Menlo Park

Looking carefully at these "icons" of the 1990s, the author uses his unprecedented access to the venture capitalists behind Benchmark to reveal the surprising world behind the ultimate investment gamble.

The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

Eboys

An in-depth portrait of America's greatest inventor journeys inside the life and Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory of Thomas Edison, documenting not only his revolutionary technological innovations, but also his remarkable ability to promote and market himself and his creations. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Argues that the secret behind the extraordinary success of Microsoft is not predatory marketing tactics, but rather an approach that includes staying eager for ideas and being responsive to markets, and discusses the company's ever-changing plans for an online world.

The Real Story Of How The Company Outsmarts Its Competition

The Microsoft Way

How One Company is Transforming Our Lives

Planet Google

"An entertaining, fact-filled journey through the past two decades of Chinese and American business interaction.... Stross's chapters on the adoption of modern management practices in China shine for their detailed analysis and ... their extremely thorough use of primary Chinese-language newspaper and magazine documentation.... [His] two chapters on Americans and their expatriate lives in China are also well written and complete." --China Review International, Spring 1994

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