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Description of eBoys: The True Story of the Six Tall Men who Backed eBay, Webvan and other Billion-Dollar...

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.

In eBoys, Randall Stross has vividly captured the interplay of ambition, personality, experimentation, and risk, all acted out, larger than life, as the men of Benchmark and entrepreneurs they back play their remarkable roles in the new world of Internet commerce and the creation of vast, sudden wealth

Title Information

ISBN:

9781587990175

Pages:

325 pages

Format:

Hardback

Product Code:

12658

Publisher:

Texere

Published:

06/09/2000

Edition:

1st Edition

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Contents of eBoys: The True Story of the Six Tall Men who Backed eBay, Webvan and other Billion-Dollar Start-Ups

1. The Right Answer
2. Good People
3. Go Big or Go Home
4. Accidents Happen
5. Don't Get Screwed
6. Room at the Top
7. Privileged
8. Name Your Price
9. World Class
10. All e-, All the Time
11. Buds
12. The Art of the Deal
13. Getting Out
14. Techniqued
15. Go Fast or Go Home
16. One Monkey Don't Make No Show
17. Off the Dole
18. communist Capitalism
19. 'R' Toys Us?
20. Crash
21. Hoover Dam
22. Built to Win

Acknowledgements
Notes
Index