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The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School For Startups (2012)

by Randall E. Stross(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0449807878 (ISBN13: 9780449807873)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Random House Audio

review 1: Randall Stross has written some great books about the tech industry, so it makes sense that he take on the accelerators that have been such an important part of Silicon Valley in the last decade. However, while it's a find book, it doesn't provide sufficient insight beyond what most people in the valley already know. I was hoping to get unique perspectives on something that I already had a good sense of. Essentially, if you are a novice to this area and the Y Combinator legend, read the book. But if you're looking for inside info beyond what's already been published, You may be a bit disappointed.
review 2: I really enjoyed the Launch Pad, which looks at a class of startups going through a famous startup incubator program. One thing that I liked was that the au... morethor wrote at length about many of the individual teams and made the startup class feel very human. The author also talked about the how the incubator works and the kind of feedback and advice it gives to its companies. As an aspiring entrepreneur, I found these bits of advice and insight to be very useful. less

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